Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Payment of the disturbance allowance at the Yorkshire Bank is also made in two equal instalments ; one is given on the first available salary pay day after the move to the new house , the other is paid when the bank receives the proceeds of the sale of the employee 's old house . |
| 2 | Barbel Abela is competing in the first round-the-world air race in a fifty-year-old bomber . |
| 3 | The oral shield is rounded with an acute proximal angle , it is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 4 | The oral shield is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 5 | It is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 6 | It is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 7 | To return to our comparison with the EEC , economic integration in the western half of Europe is seen as the first tentative step to a political union which many pay lip service to and few take seriously . |
| 8 | Only in this case Italians do not want to stop the flood — on the contrary , it is seen as the first real chance to clean out the corruption which is endemic in the system . |
| 9 | Pearson is seen as the first British director to be sacrificed on the altar of his art . |
| 10 | Aristotle is credited with the first written record of the fact that certain marine predatory gastropods obtain their food through the holes they excavate in their prey . |
| 11 | This point is noted in the First Periodic Report on the social and economic situation in the regions of the EC ( 1981 ) . |
| 12 | Representatives of the UniForum open systems user group and its European counterpart , EurOpen , were in Utrecht this week to promote what is billed as the first pan-European open systems exhibition and conference . |
| 13 | What is billed as the First Green Consumer Exhibition opens its doors at The Royal Horticultural Halls between 24 and 28 May . |
| 14 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |
| 15 | The national selectors indicated before England 's unexpected success in the HDM international tournament at The Hague that they wanted to test other members of their squad before the team is announced for the first official internationals of the season , the Four Nation tournament at Crystal Palace in a month 's time . |
| 16 | The right of elderly people to take risks is emphasised in the first national guidelines on restraint in residential care and nursing homes . |
| 17 | Initially N is taken as the first partial remainder . |
| 18 | SpreadBase is described as the first category-based modelling tool . |
| 19 | The background to the Essex initiative is described in the first annual report for 1981–1982 ( Taylor , 1983 ) as follows : |