Example sentences of "[pron] is [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we know that it is easy enough to gain weight or eat unhealthily without indulging in desserts and sweet things , it is usually this ‘ extra ’ which is among the first to go when you are trying to keep to a low-calorie , low-fat regime . |
| 2 | just to point out to members that the promised report on the lorry management plan which is in the first preparation has been put back to the January committee meeting on the Highways Committee so that we can get full advantage from the traffic and |
| 3 | What is common to all of them and to others , as it is to the first two sorts of " if " statements , is that none states the kind of connection of one thing with another which is expressed by any dependent conditional . |
| 4 | It is during the first few months in particular that these sorts of activities can affect the developing foetus , producing babies that may be premature , and with a low birth weight . |
| 5 | He served for three years , originally as chairman , and it is as the first chairman of the future Labour party that he achieved his principal prominence in labour history . |
| 6 | It is after the first few years in employment that the profiles diverge dramatically and again the male/female contrast is vivid . |
| 7 | It is in the first place striking that in the Old French fabliaux , a male rival or spoiler is more commonly the butt of the humour than a female , though examples of the latter situation are reasonably numerous . |
| 8 | But it is like the first scenario in this : both kinds of eroticism are specific to male bonding , both occur within and against the very situations in which heterosexuality is most ardently pursued , and both are in part the consequence of heterosexual ardour . |
| 9 | ‘ He is in the first penitentiary cell , close to the passage to the infirmary , ’ said Cadfael . |