Example sentences of "[adv] the first [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the first is praiseworthy for the utilitarian , since praise is essentially itself an act to be judged as good or harmful . |
| 2 | Now the first is one of Dostoevsky 's alterations to the galley proofs of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ , and the second is a variant recorded by his widow . |
| 3 | Of the two reasons given here the first is unconvincing in the light of the Group 's proposals on the amount of learning progress that each level would encompass . |
| 4 | It is part of our thesis that sexual and political revolution go hand in hand and that indeed the first is prerequisite of the second . |
| 5 | Staining can be either a one-step procedure ( " direct " — using labelled antibody or lee-tin ) or a two-step procedure [ " indirect " - using two interacting reagents ( generally antibodies ) where the first is unlabelled and the second labelled ] . |
| 6 | So the second attitude can flourish only in a climate where the first is general . |