Example sentences of "it [adv] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The business of travel is vital to the economic survival of such countries , but as the numbers of tourists and travellers increase , a compromise has to be reached between the identity of the host country and the ‘ golden hordes ’ of tourists which threaten to swamp it and destroy the very characteristics which make it so attractive in the first place . |
| 2 | They never wavered in describing the issue as extremely important for their voting decision : 64 per cent called it extremely important in the first week and 63 per cent in the last . |
| 3 | If you 're going to get picked up in bars and hand it out free on the first date , you 'd better check in regular at St Stephen 's . ’ |
| 4 | Two of the women who founded the centre in 1980 , the charismatic Mrs Penny Brohn , a cancer sufferer herself who has spurned the path of orthodox medicine , and Mrs Pat Pilkington , and Dr Alec Forbes , the centre 's medical adviser , made it quite clear in the first of the series of six , that the centre 's work was to be seen as supplementary to orthodox treatment and not a substitute for it . |
| 5 | I found it very difficult for the first few hours , but after watching the robots and using my skill at cheating I was able to watch somebody else to find out how to complete each screen , of which there are lots . |