Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [noun sg] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 2 | Moreover , the bonus is in fact a first order approximation to the true change in welfare , which in figure 4.5 is the shaded area plus the dotted area ABE . |
| 3 | ‘ It is in fact the first flowering of fiscal revolt against the high taxes of the 1990s . |
| 4 | It was titled ‘ Umbrella ’ and the song ‘ And Hiding Away ’ , to which Allan referred in his letter , is in fact the first track on the album . |
| 5 | It is in fact the first of the great many spas you meet with in the Pyrenees , when coming from the Atlantic coast , good , so one aged guidebook has it , for ‘ nervous people , the neurasthenic , the scrofulous , the lymphatic , the dyspeptic , the rheumatic , the enfeebled , the asthmatic … |