Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The entry is from the first floor . |
| 2 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 3 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 4 | The work of the Hague Conference on Private International Law is of the first importance in this area . |
| 5 | The entrance to the gallery is from the first floor . |
| 6 | Its lessening and perhaps even virtual disappearance in some cases as a culturally-marked developmental period is of the first importance and is one of the most disquieting symptoms of modern social change . |
| 7 | The overall picture is of the first generation harbouring little interest in sport , apart from horse racing ! |
| 8 | Our room is on the first floor . |
| 9 | In the examples given , which seem to be the most common , the primary stress is on the first syllable of the suffix . |
| 10 | The critical time for an adverse effect on language development is during the first three years of life ( Sak and Ruben 1981 ; Zinkus et al . |
| 11 | The nave is of the first quarter of the 17C and the altars are of the 1670s . |
| 12 | Descartes ' dreaming argument is in the first of his Meditations ; use the Haldane and Ross edition ( Descartes , 1955 ) or any reputable alternative . |
| 13 | ScotRail is among the first candidates for franchising . |
| 14 | The focus of the Lucas ( 1973 ) paper is on the first of these predicted relationships ; that is , between the volatility of aggregate demand and its impact on real output . |
| 15 | This advance is of the first importance to the population of the People 's Republic of China , and an agreement is being entered into between the Rank Xerox Unit and the Demography Institute of the University of Peking in Beijing . |
| 16 | The offence is for the first time triable either way , and is punishable on indictment with either three years ’ imprisonment or a fine and summarily with six months imprisonment and a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum . |
| 17 | The UK government is for the first time to publish environmental conditions attached to the granting of oil drilling licenses . |
| 18 | My concern is on the first page , the grammatical errors in the |
| 19 | The survival curve for the study shows that the highest mortality is during the first four years after diagnosis . |
| 20 | When the node is in the first layer , then xj is sj . |
| 21 | This information is of the first importance . |
| 22 | Fumaroli 's book is among the first to break the consensus , to ask whether all this expenditure has revived French cultural vitality or merely made culture into a stylish prisoner of the French state . |
| 23 | Hayek claims , for instance , that ‘ a people averse to the institution of private property is without the first element of freedom ’ . |
| 24 | My birthday is on the first of — What could that last month be ? |
| 25 | Your brain is for the first time having to struggle and strive and keep really busy , which is great . |
| 26 | The idea that femininity is in the first place to be associated with motherhood is simply writ large . |
| 27 | This country is in the first rank of the European Community and will remain so . |
| 28 | His company decimated by murderous shell-fire even before reaching the objective , Jubert found himself alone , possibly the only surviving officer , and sent off a message to his battalion commander : ‘ I do not know where I am , but the position is of the first importance , and I have only ten men to hold it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ My office is in the first sleeping car aft of the central dining car . ’ |