Example sentences of "is [verb] in the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barbel Abela is competing in the first round-the-world air race in a fifty-year-old bomber . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is shown in the first three columns of figure 8.6 . |
| 6 | This is shown in the first three columns of Figure 1.8 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This point is noted in the First Periodic Report on the social and economic situation in the regions of the EC ( 1981 ) . |
| 9 | The right of elderly people to take risks is emphasised in the first national guidelines on restraint in residential care and nursing homes . |
| 10 | The general law relating to restraint of trade and business secrets is analysed in the first five chapters . |
| 11 | This is where the market research which is analysed in the first three parts of the planning cycle can help . |
| 12 | The Norwegian SNSF project found that 80 per cent of the pollutant content of the winter snowpack is released in the first 30 per cent of the meltwater ( Overrein et al. , 1980 ) . |
| 13 | An open meeting of students and staff is held in the first two terms of each year ( usually in week 7 ) , principally for students to express views and opinions to the Dean and staff . |
| 14 | The carpenter , the " " riche gnof " " , is mentioned in the first three lines but the narration moves swiftly on to the portrait of Nicholas . |
| 15 | The background to the Essex initiative is described in the first annual report for 1981–1982 ( Taylor , 1983 ) as follows : |