Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Bennett would have a fit if she knew Celia had gone up to Beckwith 's Folly , but it was n't the first time lately that she had been overwhelmed by the desire to escape , although it was the first time she had actually done anything about it . |
| 2 | It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she 'd seen it in the flesh . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's so flexible that it 's the first book we reach for , whether for an intensive teenager or adult refresher course . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Prokhorov said that the answer to the contradiction between political renewal and economic crisis lay in Marxism , which ‘ teaches us that the superstructure is more mobile than the base , and that it is the first to react to a change of conditions . ’ |
| 5 | It may well be that it is the first of these , his work in children 's theatre , for which he will be most remembered , for he revolutionised the whole conception of what forms theatre for children might take . |
| 6 | This morning she gives priority to the fact that it is the first day of the winter term , and that she has a lecture to deliver and two tutorials to conduct . |
| 7 | He says that it is the first time the Japanese governent has expressed interest in the IASC 's work . |
| 8 | Headline of the week so far comes from Reuter , which says MICROSOFT SHIPS WIDOWS IN JAPANESE , but the truth is that Microsoft Corp said the Japanese-language edition of the Windows operating system version 3.1 is now being shipped , adding that it is the first retail version for personal computers to be introduced in Japan , and that 24 of the OEM customers supporting Windows in Japan are offering it pre-installed and preconfigured on their machines as part of Microsoft 's Windows Ready-to-Run programme ; Microsoft is also set with Windows 3.1 in Korean and Chinese . |
| 9 | Memorex Telex NV 's Peripherals Group in Milpitas , California has made good on its promise to offer a version of its 5100 Automated Tape Library for IBM Corp AS/400 9406 processors , and claims that it is the first such library in the AS/400 market . |
| 10 | The company claims that it is the first graphical tool set specifically designed to make C++ code re-use a practical reality . |
| 11 | AEG AG 's Fort Lauderdale , Florida-based Modular Computer Systems Inc reports that X/Open Co Ltd has completed the certification of its Real/IX real-time Unix operating system , and claims that it is the first real-time Unix to be registered with X/Open under its test and verification programme for open systems . |
| 12 | NDT Eagle 's training facility can now boast that it is the first to employ three ASNT level III accredited tutors . |
| 13 | The scheme 's novelty lies in the fact that it is the first instance of an officially sponsored immigration programme . |
| 14 | And the fact that it is the first true country club in the area . |
| 15 | Greenpeace welcomed the voluntary agreement " provided that it is the first step towards an enforceable tanker exclusion zone " . |
| 16 | Mr Jack Straw , Labour 's shadow education secretary , said last night that it was the first time in his 10 years in Parliament that responsibility for piloting such an important piece of legislation through committee had been left to such junior departmental politicians . |
| 17 | As I opened it , and looked out , I realized that it was the first time I had consciously looked out : before , I had always been hurrying by . |
| 18 | Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped . |
| 19 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
| 20 | John was happier with this work than any of his others , and Myfanwy Piper recorded that it was the first of his own ballets which John seriously believed in . |
| 21 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 22 | ‘ Everyone seemed to think Benjamin was a virgin , but I never thought of him as that , but that it was the first time he was making love to a woman who was old enough to be his mother , and who was his mother 's friend . ’ |
| 23 | A report spread that it was the first step towards establishing a joint all-Ireland police force with the Irish Republic . |
| 24 | perhaps the major significance of the Council of Europe rests in the fact that it was the first European organisation with a political flavour . |
| 25 | The significance of the BF therefore was to be in its administration and the fact that it was the first British organization to link itself specifically with Mussolini 's new form of politics , in however diluted a form . |
| 26 | Art Basel reigns supreme among art fairs for a number of reasons : for the length it has been in existence ; for the fact that it was the first fair to introduce a selection committee ; and because of its timing . |
| 27 | The doctor told me that it was the first time she had made an advance to anybody . |
| 28 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 29 | He was not particularly pleased with the result , however : when The Family Reunion had been televised two years before , he confessed that it was the first television play he had seen and that he found the medium deficient . |
| 30 | The most popular suggestion is that it was the First World War , and in particular the huge sacrifices of men in the battle of the Somme and the other slaughters on the Western Front , which made the change of attitude , or rhetoric , necessary . |