Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 2 | In this process electrons are pumped into the first excited atomic level by absorbing light from a laser tuned to the correct frequency . |
| 3 | And they 're looking for the first little thing ! |
| 4 | These are linked to the first new component of the family , the OpenServer Directory Exchange Server , DXS , which provides a centralised repository of all user addresses on the network , and is responsible for propagating this information to the other electronic mail systems . |
| 5 | The prize will be given to the first correct entry ( which should be sent to by ) and we 'll print the answers in the next issue . |
| 6 | Glasgow has marketed itself as a city which rejoices in diversity , but will it be singing about the first homosexual festival ? |
| 7 | It was not the first African paper , although nowadays some Tanzanians think that it was ; nevertheless it is the only one whose direct descendants are still in existence , and may be regarded as the first successful , viable paper ( that term has to be used in a relative sense ) edited and produced by Africans . |
| 8 | Specific proposals will no doubt be contained in the first joint spending and budget announcement in late autumn . |
| 9 | I am presently considering what measures should be included in the first Welsh Agri-Environment Plan and will consult widely about them in due course . |
| 10 | This same feeling should be carried into the first welcome meeting which should set the tone in the way that gospel singer George Beverly Shea did for Billy Graham . |
| 11 | That shows that both the president 's National Party ( NP ) and the ANC intend to be prepared for the first non-racial elections for a constituent assembly ; it is also a clear sign that both of them are sure that they can convince the other parties that the path they have laid down is the one to follow . |
| 12 | Brigit , 45 , will be seen in the first commercial this week playing a mum worried about her daughter going to university for the first time . |
| 13 | What Ho himself understood by Marxism at this stage can perhaps best be seen in the first Vietnamese Marxist revolutionary text : The Road to Revolution , published in 1926 . |
| 14 | They 're for the mass graves expected to be needed after the first German air raids . ’ |
| 15 | The prices will be announced before the first commercial shipment . |
| 16 | I would say that they were accurate when they were produced and there produced on the basis of accuracy at the time and they would be reviewed after the first financial period |
| 17 | The prize will be awarded to the first correct entry checked after the closing date . |
| 18 | Either English for Business ( First Level ) or English for Commerce ( First Level ) must be passed for the First Level Certificate in Commercial Studies award ( which will be offered for the first time in 1993 ) . |
| 19 | Either of these subjects must also be passed for the First Level Group Certificate in Shorthand and Typewriting award . |
| 20 | Summer savory is grown as a half-hardy annual , sowing outdoors in April-May , to thin to 20cm ( 8in ) apart , when the plants will grow into little bushes , but be killed by the first hard frost in autumn . |
| 21 | Of the ICBMs , 130 were due to be dismantled under the first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START 1 ) negotiated by Presidents Bush and Gorbachev . |
| 22 | Delivery of RAF Spitfires to the Mediterranean by the Wasp has been cited as the first large-scale act of co-operation between British and American forces during World War Two . |
| 23 | As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt , we are led to the first major misconception about doubt — the idea that doubt is the opposite of faith and the same thing as unbelief . |
| 24 | John Miller , the son of a Jamaican father and English mother , aroused interest by being mooted as the first black player to represent England . |
| 25 | Fairly regular dashes to Dublin , coupled with forays into other parts of the country saw the name of Sharon Shannon become a more widely known , leading to her being inducted into the first Arcady line-up . |
| 26 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 27 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 28 | However considerable problems were experienced in the first growth-room trial . |
| 29 | She held posts in Northumberland and Dundee before being appointed as the first educational psychologist in Dumbarton . |
| 30 | The tide would carry them inland at least two miles and possibly three before they were beached on the first low ridge that had been the coastline a million years before the birth of Christ . |