Example sentences of "this [vb -s] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour Party claims that this represents the first stage in a policy of full market rents . |
| 2 | This establishes the first part of the theorem . |
| 3 | for direct processing the track index does not make it clear which records are in overflow and which in the prime data area ; this prevents the first overflow record being retrieved as quickly as is achieved in the two-entry index system — at least while it is the only overflow record . |
| 4 | This provokes the first nation into developing a 10-megaton bomb , which in turn provokes the second into making a 20-megaton bomb , and so on . |
| 5 | From this follows the first point : the existence of illegal concert parties is enormously hard to prove . |
| 6 | today this becomes the first railway shadow franchise , its operations hived off into a separate company ready to be sold . |