Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally the Civic Society would like to see far more drastic policy change , possibly thinking in terms of forty hectares but we realize the minimum possible would be the thirty point five hectares which is hanging over from the first phase of the structure plan , and so that must of course be regarded as committed . |
| 2 | We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion . |
| 3 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 4 | First the next coupon payment is added to ( 8.8 ) and then the whole sum is discounted back to the first day of the delivery month . |
| 5 | The headstock is scarfed on behind the first fret ( as , in fact , were those on original Goodfellow basses ) . |
| 6 | His assertion that the problem remains and is handed down from the first generation of Homo sapiens to the present one in the institutions of religion and art seems to be , prima facie , very plausible . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets . |
| 8 | The actual request is set out in the first part , which gives the relevant addresses and which may specify a particular mode of service . |
| 9 | This poem is about the death of one of Wilfred Owen 's fellow soldiers and this is focused on in the first stanza . |
| 10 | In the centre of the layer this transport is brought about by the first term of eqn ( 22.11 ) : essentially just the fact that rising currents in the convection are typically hotter than falling ones . |
| 11 | ‘ In it , the goal of a federal European state is spelled out for the first time . ’ |
| 12 | The importance of the parallel market is touched on in the first two sources above , and also in Podolski ( 1986 , Chs 5.2 and 6.2 ) , Llewellyn et al. |
| 13 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough football club is knocked out of the first round of the War Cup by Bradford . |
| 15 | The next triplet of bases in the message ( AAG in the figure ) then pairs with a tRNA carrying the anticodon UUC , and the amino acid lysine ; thus the second amino acid of the protein , namely lysine , is lined up with the first . |
| 16 | John Payne says the ambition now is to get back into the first division |
| 17 | The general effect is taken over in the first red-figure ( fig. 87 ) ; but the black line which replaces incision is drawn with a brush , so by nature more malleable and fluid . |
| 18 | With a large entry angle a large proportion of the 4 minutes is taken up in the first turn overhead . |
| 19 | Thus competition is singled out for the first time as the chosen mechanism for ensuring the public interest . |