Example sentences of "[is] the [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with these forecasts , the programme is the largest undertaken this century . |
| 2 | Admitting failure is the toughest test any executive can have . |
| 3 | President Yoweri Museveni 's government is the first to give serious thought to the Karimojong problem . |
| 4 | As problem solver , order taker and allocator of stock , Isabel is the first to notice any increase in sales activity . |
| 5 | NDT Eagle 's training facility can now boast that it is the first to employ three ASNT level III accredited tutors . |
| 6 | In addition , our study is the first to present longterm follow up data in a large number of constipated children ≤4 years of age . |
| 7 | Moreover it is the first to offer direct hooks to the C++ programming language and last week , Iona , Sunsoft Inc and Hewlett-Packard made a joint submission to the Object Management Group proposing a standard C++ CORBA interface . |
| 8 | Moreover it is the first to offer direct hooks to the C++ programming language and last Friday , Iona , Sunsoft Inc and Hewlett-Packard made a joint submission to the Object Management Group proposing a standard C++ CORBA interface . |
| 9 | One official told the conference : ‘ It 's the military which is the first to make concrete use of fundamental research ’ . |
| 10 | The German government is the first to produce such a report . |
| 11 | This Bill is the first to meet that requirement . |
| 12 | This study is the first to suggest non-parallel enzyme synthesis in man . |
| 13 | The rest want the bomb because it is the biggest bang that money can buy and because they mistrust their neighbours . |
| 14 | An interesting recent development is the programmable stepping motor control circuit ( Klingman , 1980 ) , which provides a useful compromise between dedicated microprocessor control , with its high cost , limited speed range but good acceleration/deceleration characteristics , and hardware-intensive control , with low cost , wide speed range but poor acceleration/ deceleration characteristics . |
| 15 | Jane Brown is the latest to emerge triumphant from the RIBA library in Portman Square with The Art and Architecture of English Gardens ( Weidenfeld & Nicolson , £40 ) . |
| 16 | The ‘ misery line ’ as it is called-stations from Kennington to Morden dim and cheerless dungeons , trains cancelled with appalling regularity ( there 's a shortage of drivers on the Northern Line , because it is the last to embrace OPO-one person operation-and so the pay is lower than on other lines ) . |
| 17 | Lot number one one nine Lot number one one nine is the next to offer globular jars and there are two in the lot , we have one showing fifty pounds for the two of them thank fifty pounds ? |
| 18 | Pronto is erm an area of the store where we sell our occasional furniture and erm small priced coffee tables , hi-fi units the occasional furniture that may go erm whereas up until a couple of years ago we use to display this product around the showroom floor part of the new concept stores was that we actually set the same section in the showroom which is very much like a a shelving system whereby the stock actually sits on the shelves , the customer walks in and it 's an easy easy purchase straight off the trolley erm very much like the supermarket operation so it 's the lower priced good value occasional type furniture the cash and carry the kind of things that you do n't need sales assistants for the kind of bookcase that you would put in your children 's bedroom that kind of thing . |
| 19 | ‘ What 's the good weeding this 'ere if all that lot 's coming over all the time ? ’ |