Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | On the tempestuous north coast , double glazing , central heating and damp proof courses are among the first essentials . |
| 32 | It could be that your ancestors were among the first to abandon the idea of hunting and gathering in favour of cultivation and husbandry . |
| 33 | Music death : Singer-songwriter Arthur Alexander , whose classics were among the first songs cut by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones , has died in Nashville , aged 53 . |
| 34 | Women with children were in the first buses . |
| 35 | Europe has figured large in the past year and I am delighted that Save The Children is among the first of United Kingdom non-governmental organisations to establish an office in Brussels and mount a pan- European operation . |
| 36 | The Greek philosophers were among the first to grapple with language . |
| 37 | Renault , for example , pioneered extension of annual holiday rights in France ( Anastassopoulos 1981 : 109–11 ) , while state industries were among the first to introduce ‘ contrattazione articolata aziendale ’ ( i.e. formal plant level bargaining ) in Italy in the early 1960s ( Martinelli 1981 : 94 ) . |
| 38 | She had a point ; the sports clothes were in the first part of the programme — there should be time for her to change into the wedding dress for the finale . |
| 39 | This demand was indeed radical since women were for the first time trying to achieve some independence as persons and to exercise some power as individuals in their own right . |
| 40 | Women were for the first time identified in their own right as potential land reform beneficiaries . |
| 41 | If the second person says that his cards are in the first and last row you know that they are at the t in mutus and the t in dedit . |
| 42 | The exhibits are on the first floor . |
| 43 | Multi-energy cooking tunnels are among the first in the world to combine four different types of energy — steam , microwave , forced convection and infrared . |
| 44 | GUINNESS HAS PULLED OUT ALL THE technological stops in its latest marketing drive — and employees were among the first to see the imaginative Taste Sensation before it went out on the road . |
| 45 | Park Royal employees were among the first people to see the Taste Sensation . |
| 46 | A number of authorities in Britain have attempted to devise means of sharing decision-making with neighbourhood groups , Islington and Walsall Councils being among the first to do so . |
| 47 | All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system . |
| 48 | Secondly , an individual needs to undergo toilet-training not merely because of the demands of common decency and modern personal hygiene , but , much more importantly , because we live in a culture in which an ability to control sadistic drives is of the first importance , both for the quality of our civilization and for the acquisition and protection of our cultural wealth in general . |