Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vast amount of preliminary activity , including the collection of quotations and the selection and training of staff , had to be undertaken before the first material went to press in 1965 . |
| 2 | This theory of stages in understanding art is helpful , and it will immediately be realised that the first two stages fit in with description , the next two with interpretation , while the final stage is judgement . |
| 3 | It should therefore be emphasized that the first objective within the UGIX project is to improve access to existing GlS by converting the current function-orientation of the native system interface to a task-oriented interface usable by a spatially aware user ( see Fig. 7.2 for a taxonomy of interfaces for ARC/INFO at the time of writing in 1990 ) . |
| 4 | The second stage of development will be considered after the first stage has been operating for two to three years . |
| 5 | It must not be forgotten that the first person to give evidence about the injuries is going to be the plaintiff . |
| 6 | Boeing said that no planes would be built until the first firm orders were placed by customers , signalling the start of a bitter fight with the Airbus consortium for orders . |
| 7 | It can , therefore , be seen that the first test which the pursuer must meet is in relation to liability . |
| 8 | It can be said that the first wisdom of sociology is that — things are not what they seem . |
| 9 | The fractional-order beam intensities can be written , by analogy with holography , as It can be shown that the first and second terms are actually the squares of amplitudes of scattered waves , and their major components have lower frequencies than do the third and the last terms , and can therefore be suppressed ( refs 8 , 14 ; P.H. and D.A.K. , unpublished results ) . |
| 10 | The pictures look like war photos and the costs will not easily be assessed but the first estimates to repair the damages run between $2.5 and $4 million . |
| 11 | For CASE 1 above it should be noted that the first three identifiers ( Headword , Part of Speech , Homonym Number ) always need to be specified when a single entry is to be transferred . |
| 12 | The two numbers should not be compared because the first refers to words which have the same word boundaries , and the second refers to words in the same region . |
| 13 | Incidentally it should be remembered that the first picture ( Fig. 22.3 ) is actually the second stage of the sequence , because this pattern is itself the consequence of an instability that occurs only if the Rayleigh number is high enough ( Sections 22.2 , 22.3 ) ; however the first stage could only be represented by a picture which was ‘ a perfect and absolute blank ’ . |
| 14 | However , there will be , for a very long time , others who will believe that their interests and ambitions can best be served if the First Choice were to be retained as the basic guide to human development . |
| 15 | It will be observed that the first subsection is couched in the language of ‘ defence . ’ |
| 16 | Writing about the earliest Ottoman historical text , Inalcik states : It is to be observed that the first compilation originated in the period of struggle for the existence of the Ottoman state alter the fateful defeat in 1402 . |
| 17 | It started in 1976 and it says something about the timescale over which these sorts of things have to be planned that the first results of any value appeared 16 years later . |
| 18 | The closing date for entries is 14 January 1993 , after which a draw will be held and the first three correct entries to be drawn will receive the prize of a year 's free Friends membership plus the book of your choice . |