Example sentences of "[art] first is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We discuss this later version in the next section , but we begin with the first ( and now obsolete ) version of the logogen model since the evolution of the second version from the first is instructive . |
| 2 | The first is sheer lack of information . |
| 3 | The first is top-up payments , which the hon. Member for Birkenhead recommends should be made by local offices ; the second is the reintroduction of housing benefit . |
| 4 | The first is retrospective . |
| 5 | The first is automatic , occurring below the level of awareness , and involves rapid , parallel scanning of a large array of potentially significant events . |
| 6 | The first is embedded overflow . |
| 7 | The first is fraternal , popular entertainment , and a financial godsend for health care and education . |
| 8 | The first is nine pages of typed script and took her seventeen hours to do . |
| 9 | The first is that British society and the role of government are radically different now from what they were thirty years ago . |
| 10 | The first is that initial support of 60% is not high if the policy turns sour — if , for example , a war lasted more than the few days or weeks that Mr Bush seems to think it will take . |
| 11 | The first is that peacekeeping is hand-to-mouth . |
| 12 | The first is that drama is never about oneself ; it is always concerned with something outside oneself . |
| 13 | The first is that of proof . |
| 14 | The first is that of credibility . |
| 15 | The first is that nature itself is an omnivore . |
| 16 | The first is that welfare is a characteristic of an individual ; it is not something which is given to it by somebody else . |
| 17 | The first is that being spread over a period of time which began before the Armada , included the civil war and Commonwealth , and finished only after the accession of William of Orange , they are an unrivalled source of information on the changing status of many local families . |
| 18 | The first is that of the language itself : English , French and Latin . |
| 19 | The first is that enormous amounts of professional time and effort will be absorbed in explaining apparent differences between classes and schools . |
| 20 | The First is that period which recedes from the very beginning of life on earth and reaches far back into the unknowable depths of the timeless universe . |
| 21 | Within the confines of capitalism three fundamental models of these relations can be distinguished : the first is that of the most backward semi-feudal agricultural economy with its pauper peasants , rack-rents , ruthless exploitation of the peasantry and the weak capacity of the home market . |
| 22 | The first is that of leverage . |
| 23 | The first is that of Aphrodite and Adonis : Aphrodite , the great Goddess , hides the child Adonis in a chest and gives him to Persephone , Goddess of the Underworld , who falls in love with Adonis and refuses to give him back . |
| 24 | The first is that broadcasting was placed in the care of public corporations independent of the government of the day only when the prospect of African government loomed large . |
| 25 | The first is that to understand any society it is necessary to consider the religious basis of that society . |
| 26 | The first is that evidence for such a visit seems to be nonexistent . |
| 27 | The first is that familiarity breeds contempt . |
| 28 | The first is that spring is in the air , so it 's time to dust away the winter cobwebs and treat yourself to a new look ! |
| 29 | The first is that to know ‘ I ’ by description is to know it not as ‘ that which is aware of something ’ or which has a mental state ’ but as , in Hume 's words ' ‘ a bundle or collection of different perceptions ’ . |
| 30 | The first is that of narrowing down the causal relation so as not to include , as being in the same self , mental states that belong to different selves . |