Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glasgow has marketed itself as a city which rejoices in diversity , but will it be singing about the first homosexual festival ? |
| 2 | Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ? |
| 3 | Mansion House has only 24 , but it 's seen as the first step to putting the University at the forefront of childcare provision . |
| 4 | It is conceived as the first step towards a written constitution for the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is given to the first child , through no fault of its own , to disrupt what has been an exclusive , reciprocal relationship as no subsequent child has power to do . |
| 7 | Now my Lord it 's at the beginning of October things start to go wrong in erm and as it is pleaded on the first of October er , the plaintiffs were told the , in correspondence from the bank , that the financial terms that the finances that had been approved in principal , were only going to be available if security was offered in respect of a number of properties . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 10 | It is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 11 | He/she must not only offer an accurate description of the death-like oppressiveness of the capitalist world as it is developing in the first half of the twentieth century , but must also depict accurately and without facile romanticism or glib sentimentality , the angry and determined political struggle of men and women refusing to acquiesce to the oppressive forces of capitalist society . |
| 12 | Although it is scattered throughout the idealised version , in the original version it is confined to the first half of the story . |
| 13 | Not only does the house contain one of the most interesting ‘ collections of collections ’ , but it is surrounded by the first pleasure garden to be run entirely organically in the National Trust . |
| 14 | This is so unexpected when it is encountered for the first time that it feels like a deliberate deception . |
| 15 | It is considered of the first importance that young persons should receive correct and permanent impressions on this subject and to assist in securing that object it is intended to exhibit a model of a SLAVE SHIP which was recently captured upon the coast of Africa . |
| 16 | Erm , she actually traced back calls on the station log and it was done from the first of October nineteen ninety two to the thirtieth of September nineteen ninety three and during that time we had over five thousand three hundred and thirty calls , of which one thousand one hundred and sixty six originated from , so that is erm twenty point three percent of the calls received at police station and were held on came from , which is quite a lot . |
| 17 | It was attended for the first time by observers from China and France , neither of which was a signatory of the treaty . |
| 18 | And it was killed in the first one , that was two . |
| 19 | That was a bit of an exception , as it was sent to the first Independents Exhibition in New York and , as is the case with all the Independents exhibitions , there was no hanging committee . |
| 20 | And the fact is that with the money available erm the Gardener Centre I should think it 's not possible to use it in the kind of flexible way in which it was planned in the first years . |
| 21 | In its defence the computer points out that the problem lies not in its answer but in the question it was asked in the first place . |
| 22 | It 's just difficult to know why the final decision was changed and where it was made in the first place . |
| 23 | It was followed by the first tractors , the little grey Fergusons . |
| 24 | When a dispute arose under the contract , it was discovered for the first time that the copy returned by B had a number of terms printed on the back , in German , including a clause conferring jurisdiction in relation to disputes under the contract on the German courts . |
| 25 | ‘ It was built as the first main processing plant to support the basic nuclear industry of the country and , of course , it has also processed fuel from Japan and Italy . |
| 26 | Tala-Tala , he explained , five miles up the road , had the first church on Koraloona because it was built by the first missionaries to arrive on the island . |
| 27 | Rather it is a socially constructed form whose ‘ influence ’ depends on how it was shaped in the first place . |
| 28 | It was certified for the first time in 1986 . |
| 29 | It was bought by the first buyers for the purpose of reselling in smaller quantities to be compounded into food for cattle and poultry and was resold by them for compounding into pig and poultry food . |
| 30 | The correct word was included about 60% of the time , although it was found in the first position of the list of alternatives only 18% of the time . |