Example sentences of "it be the first [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nex anyway it 's quite near Portsmouth and we heard that the first Queen Elizabeth ship , they do n't say it 's the first but they call this one the Q E Two but there was a Q E One , you see at one time and so we took a coach from there to Southampton because we heard that she was in dock there and so we went and there were crowds of people and all in a queue waiting to go in . |
| 2 | Slater also says it 's the first and only time he 's ever seen clock ratings take such baby steps — 33 to 40 to 45 to 50 . |
| 3 | It 's the first and so far only British union to employ a full-time officer in Brussels , giving you direct access to the law-making process and E C funds to set up to benefit trade unions . |
| 4 | But , in support of the maternal depletion syndrome , perhaps contrary to popular belief , it appears from these data that a baby has better chances of being born alive to a woman in the 40–44 years age group if it is the first than the sixth or a higher order . |
| 5 | It is the first and second parts which follow Morgan most closely . |
| 6 | Of the remaining three types of modification , it is the first and second which have been found to be associated with children 's differential rates of progress ( Cross , 1978 ; Ellis , 1978 ) . |
| 7 | It was the first and last time they have had such privacy and they returned to Balmoral to join the Royal Family for their traditional September break , tanned , relaxed and obviously very much in love . |
| 8 | It was the first and last time they have ever had such privacy |
| 9 | Published by order of the general meeting of subscribers to the College , London , 1801 , Smith described it as ‘ … a very poor product for seven years ’ work : it was the first and the last' . |
| 10 | It was the first and last time I was to fly on one of its mercy missions . |
| 11 | It was the first and last visit by a British reigning monarch to Russia . |
| 12 | In the earlier years , however , it was the first and the third that he most tended to emphasise — the otherness of God , and the impossibility of climbing up to true knowledge of him by our own efforts — so that even today his thought is widely interpreted as essentially negative , as circling ever around God 's ‘ No ! ’ to human presumption . |
| 13 | Thus , in part , a causal circumstance is such that if it occurred , then even if there also occurred any change logically consistent with it and its effect , the effect occurred — or , it was the first and the effect was the last of a sequence of things such that the given connection obtained between each thing and its successor . |
| 14 | It was the first and only time I walked over to the pavillon , knocked on the door and entered alone . |
| 15 | Soon her ordeal would be over and she vowed it was the first and last time she would act as model . |
| 16 | Mr Bergg has now decided that it was the first and last . |