Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the hotel bedrooms are on the first and second floors and have a colour TV , a radio , a telephone and air-conditioning ( from 15 June to 15 September ) . |
| 2 | WWF members and supporters were amongst the first to receive full details of the new card . |
| 3 | Shells were among the first substances to be held in high regard despite being of very limited use for practical purposes . |
| 4 | While none of these pictures is of the first rank , some are of interest : Paris Bordone 's ‘ A Courtesan ’ ; Pietro Marescalchi 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned , with Saints James the Greater and Prosdocimus ’ of 1564 and Michele Giambono 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned ’ . |
| 5 | Because of the time differences across the globe , Australians are among the first people on Earth to herald the New Year . |
| 6 | The first two rounds were on the first day of the Championships , and I cruised them comfortably . |
| 7 | Secondly IBM found itself facing a steadily growing Japanese challenge , especially from Fujitsu , NEC and Hitachi — all three of which companies were in the first six in the world league for mainframes and for data processing overall . |
| 8 | The biggest vote in two decades was on the first Common Market bill in 1974 , when 509 voted ( and more turned out ) . |
| 9 | Seabirds were badly affected , with cormorants and black-necked grebes being among the first to die . |
| 10 | National governments and international organisations were among the first institutions to adopt electronic processing of large datasets ( e.g. census data , tax records ) . |
| 11 | The native slaves owned by Russians of all social classes were in the first place either prisoners-of-war or women and children captured after the men of a native community had been killed . |
| 12 | Furthermore , we should recall that in modern individuals ( and almost certainly also in the past ) internalized verbal commands and prohibitions are of the first significance in the acquisition of the superego and manifest this aspect of themselves in the auditory hallucinations of accusing and scorning voices so often found in paranoia . |
| 13 | Young people with learning difficulties are for the first time fully included in all the provisions of youth support services rather than being treated under separate legislation . |
| 14 | American firms were among the first to confront a national mass market since the market for consumer goods was huge , the whole of the country being a free trade area for business firms . |
| 15 | As in the case of the early home-grown British firms , many of the Big Four's consultants were of the first two types of headhunter we have identified : either the aristocrat with the old-boy network contacts or the practical selection and management consultant type whose experience was more in personnel than commerce and industry . |
| 16 | We can specify a point by saying what its coordinates are in the first field of view |
| 17 | The evidence indicates that the polar regions are among the first to detect changes arising from greenhouse warming . |
| 18 | The first law permits us to unnest IFs , so that all arguments are of the first type . |
| 19 | It is therefore a moving thought that the rivermen were among the first people in the modern countryside business to begin to stop and think a little harder about what they were actually doing . |
| 20 | The Duke 's rooms were on the first floor , in the new buildings of the castle , and Antoinette 's room was on the same floor . |
| 21 | George 's rooms were on the first floor ; they had the traditional stolidity of a steak and kidney pie and were much the same colour . |
| 22 | Having raised quite unreasonably high expectations , the intellectuals were among the first to invoke God 's judgement against those very processes they had so recently emancipated from God 's direct intervention . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , museums were among the first scientific institutions to receive direct government support for science , and particularly for scientific research . |
| 24 | Very often day 's residues are among the first associations th that will occur to you . |
| 25 | In brief : Salha was directly related to five of the seven households whose girls were in the first cohort , and her acceptance of the headmaster 's plans was influential in persuading the mothers of the girls that they should agree . |
| 26 | Yeah he did , yeah , cos the girls were in the first class and he was in the nursery , yeah that 's right , yeah , and they . |
| 27 | Americans were among the first to collect Monet , and Boston , where this show originated , possesses more examples of his work than any other city except Paris . |
| 28 | Thus , claims Matthew Swainston , " the seamen were among the first , if not the first , of any class of working men to think in national terms " . |
| 29 | The parricide probably occurred in different parts of the globe , where groups were at the first stage in the evolution of Homo sapiens , It is probable that the killing was done , although Freud is not insistent on the point , if the horror of the actual deed has been faced emotionally and the resistance to the idea that it was a deed is not based on emotional resistances . |
| 30 | Bees : Bumble bees are among the first insects to appear in the spring . |