Example sentences of "are [adj] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deliveries of the new jet — which is designed to tap the market for business aircraft with an intercontinental range — are due to begin in the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 2 | Hit by relentless price competition and slumping business conditions , Fujitsu Ltd on Friday forecast that for fiscal 1993 to March 31 , it would report its first loss since it was first listed in Tokyo in 1949 : it sees a group net loss of $322m and a current loss of $169m for the year , against net profit of $103m and current profit of $437m last fiscal — current profit includes gains and losses made on investments in stocks and bonds and sundry profits and losses from other non-operating activities ; ‘ Customers expect lower prices , ’ said Mike Beirne , a Fujitsu spokesman — ‘ the price competition goes from the price war in personal computers right up to mainframes ; ’ the company acknowledges that losses are likely to continue into the first six months of its new year . |
| 3 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : A large number of points have been raised by the Hon. Member for Cunninghame , North ( Mr. Wilson ) , but the preferences are those stated on the first day of our Committee proceedings . |
| 4 | Only those acting at the second and third stages have been described in the present chapter , but the most important agents for small mammal bone accumulations are those operating at the first stage of taphonomic modification . |
| 5 | Consider why it should be that A and B are difficult to discriminate in the first place . |