Example sentences of "[is] [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Markham , LASMO has achieved two milestones in the British oil industry — the field is the first offshore development lying across the UK/Netherlands median line , and it is producing the first gas to be exported from the UK into the Continent . |
| 2 | The first day of bleeding is considered the first day of the menstrual cycle , when the unfertilised egg and the lining of the womb is shed and discharged . |
| 3 | Either you consider that the County Farms are playing a role set down by law and supported over the years of an , which no other authority and no other body in the country can provide , and which is a socially valuable role , and that is to provide the first step in farming , and clearly they do . |
| 4 | When you want to run a program ( such as WORD.COM ) , all you have to do is type the first part of the filename ( WORD ) . |
| 5 | THIS AGREEMENT IS made the first day of February 1989 between of ( ‘ The Publisher ’ ) and of ( ‘ The Distributor ’ ) |
| 6 | So she 's written the first syllable as she feels it sounds ( coff- ) and that triggers the -ee . |
| 7 | If it 's sold the first lender takes priority . |
| 8 | It was not always thus : in 1983 , when Christie 's sold the first batch of 25,000 pieces of Ming porcelain , found ( also by Hatcher ) in a junk on a reef on the South China Sea , prices were low , because neither auction house nor collectors could see beyond the porcelain 's dull glaze to its historic possibilities . |
| 9 | The quantities U , q and w are related by the equation This mathematical relationship is called the first law of thermodynamics . |
| 10 | A sensible compromise is to use the first method for longer photo-stories and to add a sticky label to the photograph giving outline details and the source and to use the second method for short captions . |
| 11 | If blood pressure is elevated the first question must be ‘ Am I using the correct size cuff ? ’ |
| 12 | Milk , after the baby is born the first time the baby actually has to digest its own food it has to process the food that it takes in , what 's in milk ? |
| 13 | The Auditing Practices Board is facing the first test of its credibility . |
| 14 | After just 4 games Swindon 's John Gorman is facing the first pain barrier of the season ; 4 defeats and 14 goals conceded . |
| 15 | The monomers then redistribute so as to restore balance in what is termed the first relaxation . |
| 16 | Joe Robertson , of Lochend , who is starting the first year of Bachelor of Education ( Technology ) course at the Moray House College of Education . |
| 17 | The unprimed will not necessarily be diagonal as it should be if it is to satisfy the first part of eqn ( 6.16 ) . |
| 18 | I 'm dead against this , er , on principle , I think it 's cutting the first sod of the hole that you 're preparing to dig yourselves . |
| 19 | Du Pont is to build the first hydrofluorocarbon ( HFC ) -125 plant on a commercial scale at Deepwater , NJ . |
| 20 | In collaboration with the other UK Research Councils and with international bodies and the European Community , the Economic and Social Research Council is undertaking the first phase of its Global Environmental Change Initiative . |
| 21 | To return to the problem of how to continue the theme after the first phrase is formed : the simplest solution is to repeat the first phrase exactly as it is . |
| 22 | Wendy Georgeson , of Lerwick , who is entering the first year of an LLB law degree course at the University of Edinburgh ; |
| 23 | Mute 's stance follows the news that music industry magazine Music Week is taking the first step to redefining the term ‘ independent ’ by running ‘ a genre chart open to all-comers ’ , next to ‘ an old-style distribution chart ’ , from September 19 . |
| 24 | The easiest way of proceeding is to have the first row as YYYYNNNN , the second row as YYNNYYNN and the final row as YNYNYNYN . |
| 25 | Now they have brought forward a plan which is that they should lend me sufficient money to rent another house in which Mr Landor is to have the first floor , comprising three rooms , a book closet , and a terrace , and I am to reside on the ground floor and care for him receiving £30 a year for my trouble . |
| 26 | a subject committee is in place to assist the development of the initiative and the intention is to have the first cohort of students enter the programme in Autumn 1993 . |
| 27 | The basic way in which these c.c.d. lines operate is to have the first capacitor connected to the input so that it samples the input voltage . |
| 28 | International Data Group 's WorldExpo Corp is to sponsor the first SunWorld Expo in Japan this week at the huge Makuhari Convention Center outside Tokyo . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , and until 14 December , Gilles Peyroulet is hosting the first solo exhibition in France of the American Ronald Jones , a neo-conceptual sculptor who manifests a special dislike of politically-committed art . |
| 30 | Your opponent is allowed the first turn , and will almost always begin by picking up two different cards , say an ace and a six . |