Example sentences of "be [verb] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preventive health measures which tackle the cause of why people are becoming sick in the first place could save vast sums of public money which are being wasted by the National Health Service treating the symptoms . |
| 2 | Finally , especially if you are living alone for the first time , invest in some small cooking dishes and fridge/freezer containers . |
| 3 | The gloomsters have been proved wrong on the first part of the operation . |
| 4 | A Corporate Finance Engagement Letter should be obtained from every client for whom corporate finance activities are to be undertaken prior to the first engagement . |
| 5 | In contrast to the comments ( above ) on pavements with four pairs of interlaced squares , this mosaic can be considered one of the first examples of a distinctive saltire arrangement : an arrangement which has pelta-urns ( with bases facing away from the central roundel ) on each arm . |
| 6 | MOSCOW — Huge amounts of computerised information held in Soviet data bases are to be made available for the first time to Western research , it was agreed at a conference for Western and Eastern scientists here , writes Justin Arundale . |
| 7 | He it was who rescued a number of precious unpublished test recordings from private collections , and caused them to be made available for the first time . |
| 8 | I had imagined that if the Secretary of State was interested in doing his job properly he would have said to us , ’ Mr. Stoner 's opinion will be made available to the first meeting of the Select Committee . ’ |
| 9 | AND speaking of thespians , the magnificent Bill Owen will be downing some of the first of the summer wine in a York pub tonight in support of Labour candidate Hugh Bayley . |
| 10 | It would be a prime requirement that the airspeed and behaviour at the stall be determined prior to the first landing . |
| 11 | While one cuts with the peat iron [ Tarisker ] , the other stands catching the foot-square slabs of wet peat which are thrown flat for the first stage of drying . |
| 12 | Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter . |
| 13 | In the first division Oxford United were looking good in the first half thanks to a goal from defender Anton Rogan … |
| 14 | Many of the people who were made redundant during the first wave of financial job losses in 1990 have found work in other fields . |
| 15 | Birds , seals and other wildlife were found dead in the first days of the disaster , and fishing and salmon farming were banned in a large area . |
| 16 | A few days before he resigned from West Ham , the club had been beaten 6–0 in the first leg of a crunch match against Oldham . |
| 17 | Well that 's going free to the first person to ring us on three double one , one double one with the answers to these three questions , listen carefully . |
| 18 | They , the birds , are mentioned first in the first verse when Mac Caig is talking about Saint Francis as a ‘ talker with birds ’ . |
| 19 | He had been held scoreless for the first twenty-five minutes of the game but certainly went to town afterwards ! |
| 20 | A close working relationship with John Wilkinson , the club chairman , developed over the last five years , and Ashcroft 's position was considered one of the First Division 's safest . |
| 21 | With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , however , a corpus of Essene material was made available for the first time , and it is now possible to assess the Essenes on their own terms . |
| 22 | Somervillians have never lacked energy , as was made clear by the first of ourJills of All Trades , Ruth Spalding . |
| 23 | Hanrott was made responsible for the first ‘ Council ’ visits , at which they saw some quite ‘ unsuitable environments ’ , information from these visits being fed at first into the subject boards rather than into the Council itself' . |
| 24 | He looked at her and she felt the colour rising in her cheeks at the knowledge that she was breaking one of the first rules of medicine , which was never to make promises you could n't possibly guarantee to keep . |
| 25 | At about the same time , i.e. the end of the nineteenth century , Charles Booth ( 1840–1916 ) was conducting one of the first major social surveys , which he published between 1891 and 1903 in seventeen volumes entitled Life and Labour of the People in London . |
| 26 | In 1782 Warltire was elected one of the first forty-five honorary members of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , the others including such illustrious men as Antoine Lavoisier , Alessandro Volta , and Benjamin Franklin . |
| 27 | Manor 's defence was kept busy in the first half and the Alton side held a slender 1–0 lead at the interval . |