Example sentences of "and it [be] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's here , it 's called Thirsty Camel and it 's the first spring water for men ! |
| 2 | You do n't take a water tablet tomorrow and then you start this Inavase stuff and the first dose should be taken at night because the main potential side effect with the very first tablet , and it 's the first tablet only , is your blood pressure can go Oh down a bit . |
| 3 | And it 's the first one that traps you . |
| 4 | and it 's the first road on your right |
| 5 | And it 's the first time since you 're . |
| 6 | and I are off tomorrow and it 's the first day off that we 've had together you know , for |
| 7 | But I think we should , it 's like today , where was I , Battersea area , I think and it 's the first shop I 'd seen that actually had Chinese model manikins in the window , I thought they were sw pretty unusual . |
| 8 | Now I mentioned that this was Chest Week and it 's the first time that the er Chest , Heart and Stroke Association have had a , a , a week specifically aimed at people with chest problems , or , or looking at chest problems . |
| 9 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
| 10 | There were three men named Robert Bindloss , and it is the first Sir Robert , a famous character , who is of particular interest in this context because of his fame in the wool trade . |
| 11 | This is the ship named after the hero of the Argentine Navy in the 19th century , and it is the first of four Meko type destroyers that Buenos Aires has purchased from the Hamburg shipyard ( who in turn have been supplied with Rolls-Royce engines ) . |
| 12 | Yesterday 's bombs are thought to have been Semtex and it is the first time outside the capital that devices have been casually placed by the road side . |
| 13 | And it was the first public result attributable to the second generation at Pininfarina , Pinin 's son Sergio and his brother-in-law , Renzo Carli . ’ |
| 14 | Its most important role at the time , however , in common with other dual-purpose breeds , was in the production of first-class veal and yarded ‘ baby beef ’ ( slaughtered at less than 15 months old ) and it was the first breed to be used for this trade because of its early maturity . |
| 15 | The Lincoln Red 's breed society has a pioneering spirit : it was the first to introduce beef recording and it was the first to dehorn its breed deliberately , dropping its ‘ Shorthorn ’ tag by 1960 . |
| 16 | The meeting was held in Harvey Haddon Stadium in Nottingham , and it was the first time that I had ever been on an Inter-City train . |
| 17 | Simon said , and it was the first time she had heard that name . |
| 18 | Their dining room that Christmas of 1850 was the scene of a sumptuous dinner attended by family and friends , and it was the first important one at which Sarah Byrne was allowed to serve . |
| 19 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 20 | But we did win and it was the first game of what will be a long and demanding season . |
| 21 | Mel Smith has been on the opening show of two series so far , and it was the first thing he mentioned . |
| 22 | To Gilbert Seldes the movie had ‘ no fixed form , no standards ’ and it was the first form ( of art and entertainment ) to be developed in the era of universal ( that is low-standard ) education . |
| 23 | we had a lot of affection for it really and , I mean we 've had it so long and it was the first furniture we had when we married |
| 24 | " He does n't like me very much , " I explained , and it was the first time I 'd ever realized that " It was a very sad thing not to be liked by your own father , and obviously it must be just as sad not to like your only daughter . |
| 25 | Although it included the Byzantine penalties of blinding and mutilation for certain offences , it was far in advance of the legal practices of many medieval states , and it was the first comprehensive legal code amongst the South Slavs . |
| 26 | And it was the First World War that killed him , he had a brain damage , you know a stroke . |
| 27 | SALT I , the most important of these , placed limits on the further construction of intercontinental nuclear weapon systems by both sides ; it was intended to remain in force for five years or until superseded by a more comprehensive agreement , and it was the first real fruit of negotiations that had been proceeding since the late 1960s . |
| 28 | ‘ We made it up between us , ’ she said , ‘ and it was the first time ever we two met outside these walls . |
| 29 | Prior Robert , still stonily silent and shocked out of his normal studied dignity , led away his shattered clerk to the second of the two penitentiary cells ; and it was the first time , as far as Cadfael could recall , that the two had ever been occupied at the same time . |
| 30 | ‘ Once we got to the hospital I could feel her head and it was the first moment it all became real for me . |