Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This type of diabetes is diagnosed usually in the first half of life , exposing those affected to abnormal levels of blood glucose and other metabolites for decades . |
| 2 | The true theory of the Nicol prism was not clearly understood even by its inventor , but in a neglected paper by Edward Sang the mathematical theory is given completely for the first time ; this also contains a suggestion , made forty-seven years later by M. E. Bertrand in the Comptes Rendus , that a polarizer might be constructed of two glass prisms separated by a suitably placed thin layer of Iceland spar . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This procedure is depicted above for the first three values of the repeated median smooth , shown in full in figure 9.9 : Thus 47 is the value to be smoothed , the skip mean 43.5 is the mean of 40 and 47 and the smoothed value 45.2 is the rounded mean of 47 and 43.5 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | From this false premiss , it is easy to see how the public might wrongly think that Moët & Chandon 's Premiere Cuvée Champagne is made entirely from the first thousand litres of the cuvée . |
| 7 | The working leg is thrust outwards on the first beat of a bar , heels click and stamp to accent the appropriate beats . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The headstock is scarfed on behind the first fret ( as , in fact , were those on original Goodfellow basses ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The actual request is set out in the first part , which gives the relevant addresses and which may specify a particular mode of service . |
| 12 | This poem is about the death of one of Wilfred Owen 's fellow soldiers and this is focused on in the first stanza . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ In it , the goal of a federal European state is spelled out for the first time . ’ |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | In eleven of Cnut 's grants the Latin introduction to the boundaries is followed not by the first set of bounds but by an introduction in Anglo-Saxon . |
| 17 | Middlesbrough football club is knocked out of the first round of the War Cup by Bradford . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | With a large entry angle a large proportion of the 4 minutes is taken up in the first turn overhead . |
| 21 | It is true that much of the subsequent shape and form that a rose assumes is determined more during the first year or two of pruning than any subsequent factor . |
| 22 | Thus competition is singled out for the first time as the chosen mechanism for ensuring the public interest . |
| 23 | The book is published now for the first time as a result of scholarly study by Steve Joshua Heims of the cybernetics group of the late 1940s . |