Example sentences of "[adj] that the first [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was also clear that the first of a number of PostScript clones , the language definition has always been in the public domain , were beginning to come to the market .
2 A queue is a sequence of individuals , arranged according to time of arrival , and not according to size or strength , such that the first in the queue has prior access to some resource .
3 It seems likely that the first of these surveys probed reasons for job loss more deeply than the latter , and that the second 's estimates are too low .
4 In the following year the Poles of 300 and 301 Squadrons bombed Berlin , as did the Russians , but it was not until 1942 that the first of the four-engined ‘ heavies ’ made the long flight to this target .
5 It is true that the first of the pair begins like the piece on p.88 , with a figured Trommelbass accompaniment , but this soon gives way to a rising broken triad in semiquaver triplets which dominates from then on .
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