Example sentences of "be [adj] to the first " in BNC.

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1 The Flow Country of Caithness and Sunderland and the Rhinns of Islay are likely to the first of 1,300 Scottish SSSIs to be reviewed under a last minute amendment to the Natural Heritage ( Scotland ) Bill .
2 The second series need not be equal to the first .
3 That is not a complete explanation for Athens ' continuing preoccupation with Sicily , which culminated in the great expedition of 415 , but may be relevant to the first contacts .
4 ‘ Alas ’ , wrote Fernanda Eberstadt , a German-American , the later ones are inferior to the first two , and alas , the personal character imparted by his writings — freely imparted , one might add , and yet not unreservedly — is flawed .
5 That involved the contention that , in substance , the fresh charges were identical to the first charges .
6 Answer guide : The answers need to show an understanding of the trial balance as being equivalent to the first balance on the worksheet and the extended trial balance as including the end of year adjustments .
7 ‘ An inquiry whether anything and if so what is due to the first defendant for any and what costs charges and expenses properly incurred under or in respect of the said mortgage debentures and mortgages including the costs of this action .
8 The second example is similar to the first , but in the more familiar surroundings of a IF statement .
9 the example below is similar to the first one , but the angle is in degrees .
10 ( The DEG function is equivalent to multiplying by 180/PI. ) the example below is similar to the first one , but the angle is in degrees .
11 If the latter 's optical axis is parallel to that of the first crystal than the beam is totally transmitted , if it is perpendicular to the first optical axis none of the beam gets through .
12 We will assign any node j for which or is basic to the first generation and say that the parent of j is 1 , writing P(j) = 1 .
13 ( Note how one of these is identical to the first Tristan chord ( Example 102 ) , with the addition of the bass D. ) One peculiarity to be observed is the leap B-G from one substitution note to another in the melody .
14 It is identical to the first carriages provided for the W.C.J.S. and may well be one of them .
15 As Perry and others have noted , relatively few resources are devoted to the first two aspects , the bulk going to response and restoration ( rebuilding ) .
16 The pattern of the Lord 's match was similar to the first one .
17 The second innovation that flowed from the 1976 crisis was complementary to the first — a new financial information system ( FIS ) .
18 It was identical to the first .
19 At this point Schoenberg was close to the first ideal-type of modernist practice in his accentuation of contingency .
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