Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If yours is the first winning entry out of the hat then we 'll be in touch right away . |
| 2 | The baby soon learns that her presence is necessary for the satisfaction of its needs and she is the first individual " other " whom the infant recognises . |
| 3 | Mercer , who will have the jaw wired to-morrow , said : ‘ It 's the first serious injury I 've had and I 've never felt as flat as this . |
| 4 | It 's the first four , maybe five , new cars that Mitsubishi will launch in the UK next year , including new Spacewagons and Shoguns . |
| 5 | According to his file , it 's the first adverse report he 's had . |
| 6 | Well there 's a great pride in getting there , you see and they do n't want to , it 's , it 's the first six who get there who get the ride anyway , and there is a difference in the amount of money they earn , slightly , by getting the ride , in other words going to the fire there there is a slight difference in , in the payment they receive . |
| 7 | It 's the first major plastic slope in the country , and is on the site of ski area that used to offer reliable snowcover until the greenhouse effect got to work . |
| 8 | It 's the first major project . |
| 9 | It 's the first such building to be bought by a new trust which has been set up to protect some of the country 's loveliest old places of worship . |
| 10 | It 's the first such attack in Gloucestershire , although other forces are investigating similar incidents . |
| 11 | It 's the first two and the back . |
| 12 | And in a radio programme , you have exactly the same thing , it 's the first fifteen or twenty seconds which makes you decide ‘ Am I going to listen to this , or am I going to switch this off , and go out and make a cup of tea or take the dog for a walk ? ’ |
| 13 | It started at the end of March , it 's the first nine months , it 's the first tranche of the erm , the F M arrangement , and , and your members will be getting a report in February on that . |
| 14 | And Dinda said she needed a filling , a re-filling actually and she said it 's the first that she 's been to a dentist that she could remember that she did n't notice the needle coming in , part she hates is the needle in the gum . |
| 15 | ‘ Because it 's the first decent break in the weather we 've had . |
| 16 | Now admittedly it 's an increase of two thousand out of about half a million so one is n't sort of er er getting over excited about it but nevertheless it 's the first upward number which we 've had . |
| 17 | It 's the first real test of political opinion since the General Election . |
| 18 | It 's the first twenty . |
| 19 | It is the first practical way of introducing ‘ road pricing , ’ a concept recommended by a committee under the late Professor Reuben Smeed nearly 20 years ago . |
| 20 | If the Port is indeed the landscape listed in the catalogue , it is the first surviving Cubist painting to have been seen in a large public exhibition ( the Braque exhibition in the previous year had been at Kahnweiler 's gallery which was small and at that time known to relatively few people ) . |
| 21 | A good non-slip rubber bathmat with suction caps underneath it is the first essential . |
| 22 | It is the first professional world title to be contested in Moscow , and will be co-promoted by the Spaniard Enrique Soria . |
| 23 | It is the first professional world title to be contested in Moscow , and will be co-promoted by the Spaniard Enrique Soria . |
| 24 | Compaq Computer Corp says it is the first major personal computer manufacturer to receive a 1993-1994 US General Services Administration Schedule contract , which runs to March 31 1994 and makes it easier for the federal government to buy Compaq products at pre-set prices . |
| 25 | I I think erm a a as you 've kindly called me er I think I will try and make this debate a little more lively erm but I 'm not sure about being controversial er because here I was last week , I was making a speech about the significance of er the deregulation of contracting out bill and er I said then that the bill is so important because it is the first major attempt by government to slay the red tape dragon . |
| 26 | It is the first major development at the school since it first opened in 1957 . |
| 27 | It is the first major outbreak for many years . |
| 28 | It is the first major craft exhibition that South East Arts , your regional arts association , has organized . |
| 29 | Adapted from Russell 's 1978 stageplay , Stags And Hens , about a stag-night and a hen-party which converge at the same venue , it is the first BBC-funded film ever to receive a full cinematic release ( next Spring ) before its television broadcast ( September 1991 ) . |
| 30 | It is the first small step towards growing crops in space to make long spaceflights self-sufficient in food . |