Example sentences of "but it [be] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is the first possible answer that presents the immediate worry . |
| 2 | He knew it was wrong , but it is the first experience of real love and tenderness he has known in years . |
| 3 | It was also increasingly a city of white-collar and service workers , but it is the first category — manual workers in small manufacturing enterprises — that is best represented among the 161 fathers . |
| 4 | That is pretty obvious , but it is the first time the Najibullah government has said so . |
| 5 | But it is the first time that we have seen such a phenomenon on a large scale . |
| 6 | ‘ But it is the first time we have established formal procedures which ensure that we deliver and measure against set and agreed criteria . |
| 7 | Catherine says : ‘ I do n't want to call Spartacus a stepping-stone , but it 's the first record people will hear from me and I think it 's a classy piece of work . |
| 8 | He made a mess of things in the park , but it 's the first time he 's got it wrong . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , fishing is my hobby , but it 's the first time I 've caught a squirrel . |
| 10 | But it 's the first time he 's broadcast to people OUTSIDE campus . |
| 11 | But it 's the first time a cell has been set alight since the brand new modern jail was opened . |
| 12 | It may be the last farewell from Gloucester , but it 's the first of many new adventures . |
| 13 | But it 's the first day of the rest of my life when I get out there . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I know that getting the sack is an occupational hazard in football , but it 's the first time it has happened to me and it hurts . |
| 15 | But it 's the first time I 've ever known Mark 's to do a catalogue with their gifts in . |
| 16 | Well normally they 'd given them dressing gowns before but it 's the first time they 've had gowns is n't it ? |
| 17 | Brian , a twenty-year-old draughtsman , had seen it all before , but it was the first time for Jane , his nineteen-year-old wife , whose daytime job is as a telephonist . |
| 18 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 19 | The possibility of ending of National Service was not mentioned in these guidelines , but it was the first item on the agenda of subjects to be discussed , and it was seen in the Whitehall market-place to be the political ‘ Blue Chip' stock of the year . |
| 20 | IBM was not the first company to produce mainframe computers ( Remington Rand , Raytheon and Philco were all pioneers ) , but it was the first to make vast first-mover investments in integrated production , distribution and management for the introduction of its System 360 in 1964 . |
| 21 | But it was the first drug generally recognized as life saving in tuberculosis . |
| 22 | The Ladder may lack the charm of some of the other works anthologised here but it was the first systematic and comprehensive account of the spiritual life to be written in English and its immediate popularity shows that it answered a real need . |
| 23 | Ethernet was n't the first LAN standard , but it was the first that could claim to be non-proprietary ( many vendors sell Ethernet-compatible adaptors ) , cheap ( thanks to its use of readily available , low-cost cabling — telephone-wire twisted pair or TV-aerial co-ax ) , and flexible ( Ethernet is equally at home with small starter systems and huge network layouts ) . |
| 24 | She had an ear infection and she told the doctor , but it was the first I 'd heard of it . |
| 25 | Chesarynth felt conspicuous ; people around were staring at them , but it was the first time in her weary day 's travel that she had seen a box and it called to the echoes of firesong that the one on the Moon had left in her mind . |
| 26 | This was going to cause more problems than she 'd thought , but it was the first place to try . |
| 27 | But it was the first time Saddam Hussein had ever offered to withdraw his troops from Kuwait . |
| 28 | While he was in Paris he had been encouraged by Émile Zola to write novels , and in 1891 he published Guilty Bonds , a melodramatic story of conspiracy in Russia ; this was banned in that country , but it was the first of over 130 novels and biographies concerned with murder , espionage , and the occult . |
| 29 | But it was the first time these five principles had been drawn together and proclaimed specifically for the Gulf . |
| 30 | I do n't know if it 's the sa I do n't think it 's the same one they have today but it was the first Land Rover that I can ever remember coming to the borders . |