Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Memorex Telex NV 's Peripherals Group in Milpitas , California has made good on its promise to offer a version of its 5100 Automated Tape Library for IBM Corp AS/400 9406 processors , and claims that it is the first such library in the AS/400 market . |
| 2 | And the fact that it is the first true country club in the area . |
| 3 | The company claims that it is the first graphical tool set specifically designed to make C++ code re-use a practical reality . |
| 4 | Headline of the week so far comes from Reuter , which says MICROSOFT SHIPS WIDOWS IN JAPANESE , but the truth is that Microsoft Corp said the Japanese-language edition of the Windows operating system version 3.1 is now being shipped , adding that it is the first retail version for personal computers to be introduced in Japan , and that 24 of the OEM customers supporting Windows in Japan are offering it pre-installed and preconfigured on their machines as part of Microsoft 's Windows Ready-to-Run programme ; Microsoft is also set with Windows 3.1 in Korean and Chinese . |
| 5 | AEG AG 's Fort Lauderdale , Florida-based Modular Computer Systems Inc reports that X/Open Co Ltd has completed the certification of its Real/IX real-time Unix operating system , and claims that it is the first real-time Unix to be registered with X/Open under its test and verification programme for open systems . |
| 6 | Pahl ( 1984 ) asserts that it is the last hundred years that have been the aberration compared with the greater flexibility of both earlier periods and the present time . |
| 7 | I had taken her to the Three Tuns , and told the others to meet us there , on the basis that it was the second nearest pub to the scene of the demo and the nearest one to Seymour Street police station . |
| 8 | perhaps the major significance of the Council of Europe rests in the fact that it was the first European organisation with a political flavour . |
| 9 | Art Basel reigns supreme among art fairs for a number of reasons : for the length it has been in existence ; for the fact that it was the first fair to introduce a selection committee ; and because of its timing . |
| 10 | We must now fear with good reason that it was the first three months which were not typical . |
| 11 | It is generally assumed first , that this ‘ ceremonial recognition of his son as king in his own lifetime was something new ’ ( although Aethelred of Mercia , for example , is said to have appointed Coenred as his heir ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 57 ) , second , that it was the first royal anointing in England ( though reservations have been expressed as to whether Ecgfrith was anointed or , if he was , whether he was the first ) , and , third , that Offa was basing his action on the recent papal consecration in 781 of the Frankish princes , Pippin and Louis , sons of Charlemagne ( though Byzantine precedents are also possible ) . |
| 12 | The significance of the BF therefore was to be in its administration and the fact that it was the first British organization to link itself specifically with Mussolini 's new form of politics , in however diluted a form . |
| 13 | She confided afterwards that it was the first sexual contact she 'd had in over five years . |
| 14 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman recognises that the increase in unemployment last month was the lowest for almost a year , that it was the third successive fall in the rate of increase and that it shows that the rate of increase in unemployment in Britain is now coming down fast . |
| 15 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that it was the last Labour Government who introduced a value added tax of 25 per cent . |
| 16 | In a wider sense , however , the real significance of what had happened at Bleiburg on 15 May was that it was the last major surrender of the European war . |
| 17 | Already in 1093 and 1094 , before he received the pallium , he had had two acrimonious disputes about the services which he owed the king as one of the greatest territorial magnates of the kingdom , and it was a third territorial dispute in 1097 which finally made him resolve to leave England . |
| 18 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 19 | SALT I , the most important of these , placed limits on the further construction of intercontinental nuclear weapon systems by both sides ; it was intended to remain in force for five years or until superseded by a more comprehensive agreement , and it was the first real fruit of negotiations that had been proceeding since the late 1960s . |
| 20 | Although it included the Byzantine penalties of blinding and mutilation for certain offences , it was far in advance of the legal practices of many medieval states , and it was the first comprehensive legal code amongst the South Slavs . |
| 21 | Their dining room that Christmas of 1850 was the scene of a sumptuous dinner attended by family and friends , and it was the first important one at which Sarah Byrne was allowed to serve . |
| 22 | ‘ And it was the last real job he ever had , ’ said Auntie Ethel . |
| 23 | Miss Mates , indeed , kissed her on the cheek , said , ‘ Oh , you poor thing , ’ which made Sally-Anne feel a little mean , even if it was the last copper-bottomed clincher — that was her Uncle Orrin this time , not Papa — which got her the job . |
| 24 | er , if , if it was , if it was the last few days it was probably David |
| 25 | Sartre 's stress on the role of the subject also finds approval because many of those no longer prepared to argue for a general theory of history as the progress of a single narrative of class-struggle , have begun to argue instead for a return of its correlative , the subject , almost as if it was the next best thing in the absence of history itself . |
| 26 | As the diesel train came in and people were already picking up suitcases from the platform Moran turned and kissed her as if it were a last good night to all the nights she had come to him . |
| 27 | But it is the first possible answer that presents the immediate worry . |
| 28 | Expansion to north Italy brought into play the gold of the Val d'Aosta and south Piedmont , but it was the Second Punic War ( 218–201 B.C. ) which first increased the supply of gold significantly by taking in the alluvial deposits of the Guadalquivir . |
| 29 | Ethernet was n't the first LAN standard , but it was the first that could claim to be non-proprietary ( many vendors sell Ethernet-compatible adaptors ) , cheap ( thanks to its use of readily available , low-cost cabling — telephone-wire twisted pair or TV-aerial co-ax ) , and flexible ( Ethernet is equally at home with small starter systems and huge network layouts ) . |
| 30 | The Ladder may lack the charm of some of the other works anthologised here but it was the first systematic and comprehensive account of the spiritual life to be written in English and its immediate popularity shows that it answered a real need . |