Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 're just rearranging the first expression , okay , and getting this one right so now we 've got er a decision rule to obtain a , farmers will form their expectation of prices say next year , in T right , on the basis of last year 's price , last year 's actual price and last year 's , the expectation of last year 's actual price okay . |
| 2 | What might have been first visualised as a basic low cost word processor might have transformed into a full blown all bells and whistles application that has spreadsheets and databases built in , yet , if you 're still using the first release , you could be losing out . |
| 3 | ‘ But we will have the first National Hunt racing on all-weather anywhere in the world at our first meeting ( Lingfield 's opening card is all Flat ) and we are also staging the first trials at racing pace on the new surface ( they take place on Sunday ) . ’ |
| 4 | We are now seeing the first signs of recovery and all forecasters expect to see our economy growing again in the coming year . |
| 5 | so I 'm actually taking the first three weeks and you 're taking the last |
| 6 | In the recent British Library publication , ‘ The Emergence of the Electronic Book ’ ( BNB Research Fund Report 46 , 1990 ) , we saw how handheld electronic reference devices based on chip memories were already foreshadowing the first true electronic books . |
| 7 | She laughed as she watched the dove soar above the chestnut trees , which were already showing the first flecks of green . |
| 8 | And so , you know , on the business desk you might have three teams and the first team is only doing the first page and the opinion and the second team is doing a large amount of financial news and the third team is doing the company news , and then the erm there 's a graphics person who 's working on charts and stuff . |
| 9 | Sometimes it 's as if he 's constantly rejecting the first idea that comes into his mind , and plays the second instead . |
| 10 | Nearly £35,000 in cash and £450,000 in cheques is believed to have been stolen from the administrator 's home following the first show on Saturday . |
| 11 | With these two packages , Microsoft essentially becomes a value-added reseller of its own applications , and is also taking the first step into the world of the ‘ applet ’ , where software authors use simpler applications as building blocks for larger projects . |
| 12 | British Telecommunications Plc is now implementing the first Metropolitan Area Network in the UK . |
| 13 | In Europe , performance in France and Spain remains unsatisfactory , although it is now showing the first signs of improvement . |
| 14 | The steering group are currently writing the first draft of these standards of performance . |
| 15 | The duty plant operator , Lance-Corporal Adcock , was just finishing the first parade service on his equipment — a Henley Hermes fork-lift truck with a twenty-five-ton lifting capacity . |
| 16 | A new industrial relations court would be given a conciliation role with full powers of enforcement and damages , the right to take sympathy action would be restored , while secondary picketing would only be allowed where the second employer was directly assisting the first employer to frustrate the dispute . |
| 17 | It , too , was moving fast , and was clearly chasing the first sledge . |
| 18 | Nizan was clearly showing the first signs of a defensive strategy that he would deploy to great effect throughout the remainder of his life . |
| 19 | By the mid 1950s the OCU was also training the first of the foreign aircrew whose governments had bought various marks of Canberras . |
| 20 | Apple Computer Inc says it is still on target for mid-1994 launch of its first RISC-based Macintosh after IBM Corp announced that it was now shipping the first PowerPC chips to Apple . |
| 21 | There was no stopping the first , but the second ; well it was more to do with bad defence , than good attack . |
| 22 | ‘ I was actually remembering the first part ! |