Example sentences of "[conj] be [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will assign any node j for which or is basic to the first generation and say that the parent of j is 1 , writing P(j) = 1 . |
| 2 | Was the speaker trying to tell me something or was I in the first stages of paranoia ? |
| 3 | While the general principles of project management are much the same in the two cases , a number of important aspects that are implicit in the first case , in that they are built in as part of the company procedures , must be made explicit in the second . |
| 4 | It uses systems thinking to develop ideas about what information is needed to achieve a defined purpose , ideas that are independent in the first instance of how this information appears in practice . |
| 5 | The worlds relevant to assessing the right-hand side of the principle of closure are the nearest group in which q is true , and the nearest group in which q is false , i.e. completely different sets of worlds one of which may be , as in our actual example , far more remote from our world than are any of the first four groups . |
| 6 | She asked the court to refer to the European Court the question of whether Article 59 of the EC Treaty could be taken as meaning that a member state could bar the giving of information in its territory about services in another member state that were illegal in the first country . |
| 7 | You want something that 's universal for the first one . |
| 8 | In 1933 the Nazis increased their number of seats on the Volkstag to 38 , and were present for the first time in sufficient numbers to have an effect on the business and workings of the chamber . |
| 9 | We have a dozen Note Trackers to give away and you can win one by answering the following three questions and being one of the first twelve correct entries out of the hat . |
| 10 | But you see , Mrs Sutherland , he handled that and being one of the first non-whites at St Andrew 's School . |
| 11 | It is priced from $316,000 and is due in the first quarter of next year . |
| 12 | All tracks have been specially remixed in Q-Sound , a revolutionary technique which supposedly gives a quadraphonic effect from two stereo speakers and is one of the first ever releases to use this technique . |
| 13 | All tracks have been specially remixed in Q-Sound , a revolutionary technique which supposedly gives a quadraphonic effect from two stereo speakers and is one of the first ever releases to use this technique . |
| 14 | The Student Discount Card costs =4.00 and is obtainable on the first salon visit — your 20% discount is valid immediately . |
| 15 | A Thames barge has no keel and is afloat in the first few inches of shoal water . |
| 16 | Indeed , he was extremely furious and led the fight to establish a new body and was present at the first meeting of the British Deaf and Dumb Association in Leeds in 1890 . |
| 17 | Heren was actually in Palestine in 1948 and was one of the first correspondents to enter Deir Yassin after the massacre of its Arab residents by Menachem Begin 's Irgun gunmen . |
| 18 | He coined the term ‘ developmental mechanics ’ and was one of the first to attempt a causal analysis of early development . |
| 19 | It is a meaty breed , similar to the Limousin , and was one of the first of the declining breeds to be conserved by the government 20 years ago . |
| 20 | Maginn was also a firm believer in the national deaf movement , and was one of the first vice-presidents of the B.D.D.A. |
| 21 | She used drab greys and browns in tiny Fair Isle patterns and was one of the first people I knew to use drop shoulders . |
| 22 | This was the most advanced industrial building of its time : it was designed from the start to be powered by steam ( with engines supplied by Samuel 's partners in the enterprise , Matthew Boulton and James Watt , qq.v. ) , and was one of the first to incorporate a brick raft foundation . |
| 23 | An ardent but always non-violent feminist , she campaigned vigorously for women 's rights , fought hard to improve rudimentary state education and medical services , and was one of the first women to stand for election to a borough council after the passing of the Qualification of Women Act in 1907 . |
| 24 | Outside Parliament Philipps was active in the local societies for the reformation of manners , and was one of the first to join the similarly orientated Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ( SPCK ) , taking an active role in its agitations against playhouses and against duelling . |
| 25 | I delivered Eliot to Magdalen , and was one of the first to arrive for the English Club meeting , accompanied by a Somerville girl to whom I had become attached . |
| 26 | Bulford , where the Avon and the Nine Mile River meet , is just a short distance from Stonehenge , and was one of the first sites on Salisbury Plain to be bought by the War Office at the turn of the century and turned into a garrison , bringing new industry to a village that had previously been dependent on agriculture . |
| 27 | He held his head defiantly lifted , as if he wished no man to see him in dejection ; somehow I felt the gesture very characteristic , and was able for the first time to recognize his arrogance . |
| 28 | It shows the influence of A. W. N. Pugin [ q.v. ] and was important as the first popular book on design to show readers how to create designs themselves . |
| 29 | Her mother had both children late in life , and was wonderful for the first six years of Jay 's life . |
| 30 | If this is the case ( and it can be tried with dropping several requirements each in turn ) then the requirement should be examined to see if was essential in the first place . |