Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name " Pentateuch " is given to the first five books of the Bible . |
| 2 | Responsibility for drafting the bill and printing is borne by the Member although financial assistance is given to the first ten members and drafting assistance is given to any member whose bill appears to have a chance of becoming law . |
| 3 | Payment of the disturbance allowance at the Yorkshire Bank is also made in two equal instalments ; one is given on the first available salary pay day after the move to the new house , the other is paid when the bank receives the proceeds of the sale of the employee 's old house . |
| 4 | Barbel Abela is competing in the first round-the-world air race in a fifty-year-old bomber . |
| 5 | If , for example , the bulk of the academic element is contained in the first two years of a course , then the second two can be devoted to developing teaching strategies . |
| 6 | The introduction to the study is contained in the first two or three paragraphs of the article , which also briefly summarize its results and implications . |
| 7 | You must first seek to interest the editor and to do this you must make certain that the essence of the story is contained in the first few sentences . |
| 8 | Independent interrogation by the police is confined to the first 48 hours after the offence has been reported . |
| 9 | Showing the history of the USAAF/USAF from 1931 to 1953 it shows the early development with B-10 bombers helping out during the flooding of 1935 , film is included of the first B-17s , a type that was delivered in 1937 , the expansion programmes of the late 1930s show the tremendous build up of men and machines . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The oral shield is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 12 | It is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 13 | It is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 14 | To return to our comparison with the EEC , economic integration in the western half of Europe is seen as the first tentative step to a political union which many pay lip service to and few take seriously . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Pearson is seen as the first British director to be sacrificed on the altar of his art . |
| 17 | This is shown in the first three columns of figure 8.6 . |
| 18 | This is shown in the first three columns of Figure 1.8 . |
| 19 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 20 | Infants most at risk are those where high PIP ( >26 mm Hg ) is used within the first 24 h . |
| 21 | Aristotle is credited with the first written record of the fact that certain marine predatory gastropods obtain their food through the holes they excavate in their prey . |
| 22 | The start time is given in VMS absolute time format : dd-mmm-yyyy hh:mm:ss.cc where omitted fields default to system date and time ; month is abbreviated to the first three letters ( uppercase ) . |
| 23 | This point is noted in the First Periodic Report on the social and economic situation in the regions of the EC ( 1981 ) . |
| 24 | Representatives of the UniForum open systems user group and its European counterpart , EurOpen , were in Utrecht this week to promote what is billed as the first pan-European open systems exhibition and conference . |
| 25 | What is billed as the First Green Consumer Exhibition opens its doors at The Royal Horticultural Halls between 24 and 28 May . |
| 26 | For now , attention is focused on the first two reasons why firms invest , rather than rely purely on third-party trade . |
| 27 | For example , for 2 × 2 weaving , the weaving yarn is laid over the first two needles , under the next two needles , over the next two needles and so on . |
| 28 | Nothing is known about the first 7 years of this person 's life , and whilst only scattered information exists about the middle span , we know that only at the age 42 did the Earth begin to flower . |
| 29 | As a consequence , very little is known about the first thousand years of Imperial history . |
| 30 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |