Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb -s] the first " in BNC.

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1 Also , an SSR based on the first SSR should be generated without reference to the offending module and stating that it supersedes the first .
2 Also , an SSR based on the first SSR should be generated without reference to the offending module and stating that it supersedes the first .
3 Archipel SA of Paris claims that it has the first Inmos International Ltd Transputer-based distributed Unix system , built using Chorus Systemes SA 's Unix System V-compatible microkernel technology on Archipel 's Volvox-TS line of multiple instruction-multiple data parallel processors .
4 Jackson 's next work , An Essay on Bread ( 1758 ) , defended bakers and millers against malpractice charges levelled by Peter Markham [ q.v. ] and Joseph Manning , and it represents the first reliable book on the chemical detection of food adulteration .
5 It offers further confirmation for GR outside the solar system and it provides the first evidence , albeit indirect , for gravitational radiation .
6 Handwriting recognition software is still lousy , and it seems the first pen systems will just have pre-programmed forms loaded .
7 ‘ Well , if it does the first out 'll be the dockers and railwaymen .
8 ( 21 ) John has two PhDs +> I believe he has , and have adequate evidence that he has ( 22 ) Does your farm contain 400 acres ? +> I do n't know that it does , and I want to know if it does The first of these provides an explanation for " Moore 's paradox " , namely the unacceptability of utterances like ( 23 ) : ( 23 ) ? ?
9 I think it should be remembered that that public support actually was against a requirement of one thousand nine hundred dwellings , which is not quite the proposal being put forward by the County at the moment , but it is clear that there seems to me n not to be any public or great strength of public objection to the sort of proposals that are now before you in this enquiry , and it also seems to me that the reasons behind erm that that public support are essentially because it meets the first requirement of paragraph P P G thirty three , that the alternative expansion of existing towns or villages will represent a less satisfactory method of providing land for new housing that is needed , I think that is the essence of the public support , and so first of I think you can say that that 's that means that first criteria , and certainly it seems to meet the second automatically because it an expression of public preference .
10 Baffling because it is all so new and strange , and exciting because it brings the first hint , the first distant suggestion that for women an independent economic identity is possible .
11 It still has to deal with sagging demand in its two vital markets — the UK and the US — while it develops the first of four new models for the late '90s .
12 The hard copy formatter opens one or more volumes in the hard copy directory for each charge code specified in the configuration file , when it finds the first module which is associated with the given charge code and which has not been hard copied .
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