Example sentences of "[is] [verb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | If do is used in the non-past , the infinitive 's event is situated in the first moment of the non-past time-sphere : ( 2 ) She does own a Porsche . |
| 2 | There is a restriction on the allowance for the car if it costs more than £12,000 , and only 25 per cent writing down allowance is given in the first year . |
| 3 | Barbel Abela is competing in the first round-the-world air race in a fifty-year-old bomber . |
| 4 | This curvature is contained in the first quarter of the wing so that the centre of lift is also well forward while the stabilising reflex on the underside provides a down force at the trailing edge . |
| 5 | If , for example , the bulk of the academic element is contained in the first two years of a course , then the second two can be devoted to developing teaching strategies . |
| 6 | You must first seek to interest the editor and to do this you must make certain that the essence of the story is contained in the first few sentences . |
| 7 | The introduction to the study is contained in the first two or three paragraphs of the article , which also briefly summarize its results and implications . |
| 8 | With a native version of Novell Inc NetWare due on Sparc next year ( UX No 423 ) , Banyan Systems Inc 's rival Vines network operating system is now being ported to the Sun RISC and is expected in the first half of 1994 . |
| 9 | The curriculum includes courses on Building Technology , Urban Design , Building Economics and Building Contracts ; a dissertation on a topic of architectural history or theory is included in the first year . |
| 10 | The ideas and attitudes expressed by the social problem film … do not derive simply from the focus of their subject matter but also from their deployment of certain types of conventions ( in accordance with what an audience ‘ accustomed to the cinema ’ expects ) which , then , inevitably structure and constrain the way in which that subject matter is presented in the first place . |
| 11 | Contact is made in the first instance with the manager nominated by the vendor 's representative . |
| 12 | When a page is called up , the cursor is positioned in the first input field on the page , ie. where information may be entered . |
| 13 | He/she must not only offer an accurate description of the death-like oppressiveness of the capitalist world as it is developing in the first half of the twentieth century , but must also depict accurately and without facile romanticism or glib sentimentality , the angry and determined political struggle of men and women refusing to acquiesce to the oppressive forces of capitalist society . |
| 14 | PORTAFERRY is featured in the first of the six-part series Once Upon A Place ( UTV , 7.00pm ) in which local people tell the story of their own area . |
| 15 | ‘ The Friends ’ is written in the first person narrative , it is rather clear and direct , but it too later develops , conveying the emotions of an ardent adolescent growing up into womanhood . |
| 16 | ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . ) |
| 17 | Yes , but , the the main part of this as I understand the drawing , you 'll have to ask Mr when he comes , but the main part of , of the square , which would n't be the third which is done in the first phase according to the phase that they 're currently proposing . |
| 18 | This is shown in the first three columns of figure 8.6 . |
| 19 | This is shown in the first three columns of Figure 1.8 . |
| 20 | The intermingling of theory and practice is shown in the first place by the fact that the systematic study of politics is far from being confined to institutions of higher learning , even though academic political studies , like the social sciences generally , have undergone a remarkable expansion during the present century . |
| 21 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 22 | The outlook in the UK is still gloomy , McAlpine says , borrowings short-term will rise , and a small loss is anticipated in the first half ; but site costs are down , and site visits are up sharply . |
| 23 | ‘ But my biggest ambition is to play in the First Division for Middlesbrough . ’ |
| 24 | Resources — the reason why discretion is used in the first place may be because of limited resources . |
| 25 | The contradictions between these implicit tendencies and Goody 's explicit rejection of them can be explained by the framework of distinctions on which the inquiry is based in the first place . |
| 26 | This point is noted in the First Periodic Report on the social and economic situation in the regions of the EC ( 1981 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ The Color Purple ’ is set in the first decade of the twentieth century , in rural Georgia and most of the characters are black Americans as are those in ‘ The Friends ’ which is set in the seventies , in Harlem , New York . |
| 28 | The next reference in 1955 is to some bonds having been transferred and this is found in the first Bondholders ' Minutes written by their new Secretary , J. H. ( Harry ) Tomalin . |
| 29 | The Purefoy Letters contain a number of lists of trees and smaller plants which Philip Leapor brought to their estate ( an example is provided in the first chapter above ) . |
| 30 | 2 A consistent focus on grammar and pronunciation is provided in the first part of each unit |