Example sentences of "[is] [adv] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 2 | For this is not the first such episode . |
| 3 | This is not the first such row of recent times . |
| 4 | He is not the first Federal Reserve chairman to visit Moscow , but never can one have been paid as much attention . |
| 5 | I think it is only fair to point out that this is not the first major development on the Ringdufferin Road . |
| 6 | The Hall of Fame is not the first international honour awarded to Professor Solomons . |
| 7 | The quiteron is not the first superconducting device that engineers have considered for chips . |
| 8 | However , the Abu Dhabi office is not the first overseas-based venture for J&F Johnston . |
| 9 | The Deloitte fiasco is not the first big eight merger to fall apart and these ridiculous posturings must leave the clients , who are supposedly served by their auditors , completely baffled . |
| 10 | Hannah Glasse 's book , The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy was first published in 1747 in the 1751 edition appears what is possibly the first English printed recipe for an ice cream . |
| 11 | We have clear descriptions of Charles from his chroniclers and contemporaries ; he is probably the first powerful figure to emerge from the Dark Ages as a completely documented ruler . |
| 12 | Okay good now this is probably the first real go at doing pie charts that you 've had is n't it ? |
| 13 | It 's been toyed with a few times but as far I 'm aware , this is probably the first serious attempt — certainly at the sort of scale we 're talking of — to use a perched beach to provide coastal protection . |
| 14 | There is a small spine-like papilla lying within the mouth slit which is probably the first oral tentacle scale . |
| 15 | This is again a comprehensive and thoroughly investigated article and is probably the first extended account of Situationist cinema in English . |
| 16 | ‘ I suspect it 's probably the first decent meal you 've had for days , Melody . |
| 17 | It is notably the first post-Roman coin hoard in England and may in itself signify a change in the economy . |
| 18 | The Vogue LSE is also the first off-road vehicle to be fitted with electronic traction control ( ETC ) . |
| 19 | It 's also the first major re-design of the spreadsheet in 10 years and it 's a vast improvement . |
| 20 | Morrison is n't the first African-American author to become enamoured with ‘ the sound ’ . |
| 21 | Yeah it is n't the first correct one out , they 've all got shout if you like . |
| 22 | I offer the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) my heartfelt thanks for giving what is almost the first straight answer that I have ever extracted from him . |
| 23 | That , more or less , is how the First Spiritualist Church experienced its last and greatest schism . |
| 24 | This is why the first Christian believers were able to proclaim the good news about Jesus so fearlessly . |