Example sentences of "[is] the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interview is the first since Robert Maxwell 's death last November and was conducted in secret by an American journalist . |
| 2 | The agreement is the first between the nations since a 1970s pact on polar bear hunting . |
| 3 | ‘ Your room is the first on the right in the men 's corridor . |
| 4 | Informix is the first with a DRDA product , it introduced Informix-Gateway for DRDA last month ( UX No 428 ) . |
| 5 | Informix is the first with a DRDA product : it introduced Informix-Gateway for Distributed Relational Database Architecture last month . |
| 6 | If your correct entry is the first to be drawn you 'll be driving away a fantastic new Renault Clio RT 1.4 voted Car of the Year ! |
| 7 | Instead , at present , as soon as queues develop , the telephone service is the first to be suspended and callers are required to speak to an answering machine , as will be seen in Chapter 4 . |
| 8 | Graham is the first to hand out praise when it 's due , and when he voices his displeasure , the player concerned is left totally in the picture about the captain 's requirements . |
| 9 | The case is the first to be brought by Scotland Yard 's Regional Crime Squad under s 24 of the Act . |
| 10 | BACKFRIEND is the first to be selected for the Design Centre and is now exported to 17 countries . |
| 11 | Fosse believe the Advantage system is the first to be designed specifically for tennis |
| 12 | His book is the first to be based on close technical scrutiny of the parchment , which revealed several erased preparatory drawings that point to some controversy among the medieval planners . |
| 13 | A dozen shags and a cormorant are perched on a stack nearby and , as usual , the cormorant is the first to ‘ chicken out ’ and fly off as we approach . |
| 14 | This issue of Action newsletter is the first to be typeset , designed and laid out on desktop publishing ( DTP ) equipment which has recently been installed at WACC 's offices in London . |
| 15 | Richardson is not of course the first great English novelist , but he is the first to be interested in houses , for the characters created by his predecessor , Defoe , and his contemporary , Fielding , are too often on the move to develop much awareness of their living space . |
| 16 | If a highly territorial species is the first to be introduced , such as a damsel , and becomes established it will cause problems . |
| 17 | This speeds request handling but greatly increases the work area size needed , particularly if a very widely used descriptor is the first to be cited in the retrieval request . |
| 18 | ‘ In many situations in which the father is the aggressor , the eldest daughter is the first to be victimized , and earliest sexual contact can begin when the child is as young as 5 or 6 , with genital fondling , mutual masturbation and oral-genital contact … |
| 19 | It is also , perhaps , not without significance that Fahreddin Acemi is the first to be mentioned as receiving a salary specifically in respect of his function as Mufti , though it can not be shown beyond doubt that he was actually the first to have done so . |
| 20 | This trial is the first to prospectively follow elemental diet or prednisolone induced remission in adult patients over a period of a year . |
| 21 | The grant is the first to be paid out of the Nuclear Safety Account , set up by the Group of Seven industrialized countries at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) for the purpose of providing emergency aid to secure the Soviet-designed nuclear reactors in Eastern Europe . |
| 22 | Catherine Dalton is the first to be appointed and she is based in Cleveland Health Centre , Middlesbrough . |
| 23 | A further education college is the first to be registered by CCETSW for providing vocational education and training in social care . |
| 24 | The purchase is the first for Strathmore , which was recently founded by Ronnie Rickard , former managing director of Norscot Hotels . |
| 25 | THE Spanish general election on June 6th is the first for a decade in which the result is not a foregone conclusion . |
| 26 | He is the first of a long line of distinguished French portrait sculptors . |
| 27 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 28 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
| 29 | That is the first of many agencies , executives , commissions , and other quango-like bodies recommended by the review . |
| 30 | This is the first of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki 's films to open here , but not the last : two more are lining up for release in the next six months . |