Example sentences of "in fact the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is in fact the first flowering of fiscal revolt against the high taxes of the 1990s . |
| 2 | Others can make a judgement that you should be spending less than that , and in fact the first budget we presented yesterday was at the level of three hundred and eleven point five million , which is further below the capped level . |
| 3 | In fact the first person to say it was anthropologist Thomas Hornsby Ferril , who wrote an article in the Rocky Mountain Herald in December 1955 that put forward the idea that American football is actually a : |
| 4 | In fact the first evidence for such oracles comes from the Peripatetic philosopher and historian Antisthenes of Rhodes , the contemporary of Polybius . |
| 5 | The shoddy tower-blocks and monotonous housing estates into which the ex-peasants were already being herded twenty-five years ago were in fact the first stage of systematically transforming life in the country . |
| 6 | It was titled ‘ Umbrella ’ and the song ‘ And Hiding Away ’ , to which Allan referred in his letter , is in fact the first track on the album . |
| 7 | In fact the first thing I did was ring my 35-year-old daughter who has been a ‘ fitness freak ’ ever since Jane Fonda took to jumping about our TV screens and warned her not to overdo it if she intended to buy the tape — which I am certain she does . |
| 8 | It was in fact the first time in his life that he had looked at any woman . |
| 9 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 10 | When the Data Protection Committee was set up in 1976 , to redeem a pledge made by the Home Secretary when Younger reported , It had no such limitation put upon it — it was in fact the first body empowered to investigate information systems in the public sector , and the Committee came to see this as a major aspect of its work . |