Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 7 day tour to Poland , open to CIT members , spouses , and colleagues has been arranged for the first week of July , boasting a programme , both transport orientated and cultural . |
| 2 | In a few areas a detailed election manifesto has been adopted at the first meeting of a newly elected council as a basis for council policies ( Fudge 1981 ) . |
| 3 | Will it be possible to finish the 12 — 2 guinea plates the 2nd thirty small ones and the thirty of which the first ground has been done by the first of April next — or the end of March — give opinion on this … ? ’ |
| 4 | This has been done in the first instance through joint ventures with Ladbrokes and Bass respectively , though Horizon also owned and operated hotels in its own name . |
| 5 | Ehrlichman and Weinberger criticise the emphasis that has been placed on the first eye movements occurring after a question has been asked and the consequent ignoring of movements which occur prior to or during presentation of a particular item . |
| 6 | THE draw has been made for the first round of this year 's Harp Masters International Hockey tournament , run by Annadale Hockey club . |
| 7 | But how do you find out about whether a planning application has been made in the first place ? |
| 8 | It has been compared to the first ascent of Everest . |
| 9 | The lesson was learned , and in subsequent years a photocall has been organized for the first day , when the Prince and Princess pose sweetly for the cameras on the understanding that thereafter the media will go home so the two can holiday in peace . |
| 10 | Now , after quite a shore period , the locomotive has been steamed for the first time and is almost in working order . |
| 11 | The reader is reminded that all that has been written so far has been dealing with the First and Second Periods into which the development of the Created God has been divided . |
| 12 | At the time of writing , funding has been secured for the first five years ; it is to be hoped that the data will prove so useful that it will become indispensable to British social science . |
| 13 | In the post-1945 period , national liberation has been seen as the first line of rebellion against capitalism . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Railway 's annual spring Enthusiasts ' Weekend — normally held two weeks before Easter — has been moved for the first time in its 20-year history . |
| 16 | According to a recent Hollywood Reporter piece , the Runt is currently labelless but has been working on a project which has been hailed as the first interactive album . |
| 17 | The agreement has been hailed as the first of a series intended to tackle the chronic industrial pollution problems of eastern Germany . |
| 18 | In the intervening year , nothing has been done to right the wrongs of the decade , so what profit has been gleaned in the first year of the new leadership of the Conservative party ? |
| 19 | But a new rate of ( 20% ) twenty per cent has been introduced for the first ( 2,000 ) two thousand pounds of taxable income . |
| 20 | Whilst this process may , for this model , take up to 20 iterations to achieve an acceptable assembly from a disjointed starting point , once an association has been accomplished for the first time and , if only small disturbances are imposed , re-association may be accomplished in as few as three attempts . |
| 21 | Evidence collected by a new computer-controlled water monitoring and sampling device developed by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has been used for the first time to prosecute a company for polluting a waterway . |
| 22 | However , if every seventh word has been deleted in the first few sentences , then every seventh word must be deleted for the rest of the test . |
| 23 | It is probably not an exaggeration to say that far more work has been published on the first type of task than on the second . |
| 24 | A Consultant 's Register has been published for the first time , and the Technical Information Service successfully relaunched as the Construction Information File . |
| 25 | It culminated in the sabbatarian excesses of English and Scottish Puritanism and the Sunday legislation , much of which has been relaxed since the First World War . |
| 26 | This morning it was starts from the state boat ; many a race has been won in the first hundred yards or so , and Oxford , as always , are coached and prepared for everything . |
| 27 | According to Advanced Micro , the 210 has proven such a popular architecture that it has been chosen for the first speed and power upgrades . |
| 28 | Gastric acid has been shown during the first hour of life in both term and preterm infants of more than 32 weeks gestation . |
| 29 | The parachutist who crash-landed on a group of schoolchildren has been talking for the first time about what happened . |
| 30 | A man who suffered severe brain damage during an operation twenty six years ago has been talking for the first time about losing his fight for compensation . |