Example sentences of "is [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 With Markham , LASMO has achieved two milestones in the British oil industry — the field is the first offshore development lying across the UK/Netherlands median line , and it is producing the first gas to be exported from the UK into the Continent .
2 The first day of bleeding is considered the first day of the menstrual cycle , when the unfertilised egg and the lining of the womb is shed and discharged .
3 Either you consider that the County Farms are playing a role set down by law and supported over the years of an , which no other authority and no other body in the country can provide , and which is a socially valuable role , and that is to provide the first step in farming , and clearly they do .
4 When you want to run a program ( such as WORD.COM ) , all you have to do is type the first part of the filename ( WORD ) .
5 THIS AGREEMENT IS made the first day of February 1989 between of ( ‘ The Publisher ’ ) and of ( ‘ The Distributor ’ )
6 The quantities U , q and w are related by the equation This mathematical relationship is called the first law of thermodynamics .
7 A sensible compromise is to use the first method for longer photo-stories and to add a sticky label to the photograph giving outline details and the source and to use the second method for short captions .
8 If blood pressure is elevated the first question must be ‘ Am I using the correct size cuff ? ’
9 Milk , after the baby is born the first time the baby actually has to digest its own food it has to process the food that it takes in , what 's in milk ?
10 The Auditing Practices Board is facing the first test of its credibility .
11 After just 4 games Swindon 's John Gorman is facing the first pain barrier of the season ; 4 defeats and 14 goals conceded .
12 The monomers then redistribute so as to restore balance in what is termed the first relaxation .
13 Joe Robertson , of Lochend , who is starting the first year of Bachelor of Education ( Technology ) course at the Moray House College of Education .
14 The unprimed will not necessarily be diagonal as it should be if it is to satisfy the first part of eqn ( 6.16 ) .
15 Du Pont is to build the first hydrofluorocarbon ( HFC ) -125 plant on a commercial scale at Deepwater , NJ .
16 In collaboration with the other UK Research Councils and with international bodies and the European Community , the Economic and Social Research Council is undertaking the first phase of its Global Environmental Change Initiative .
17 To return to the problem of how to continue the theme after the first phrase is formed : the simplest solution is to repeat the first phrase exactly as it is .
18 Wendy Georgeson , of Lerwick , who is entering the first year of an LLB law degree course at the University of Edinburgh ;
19 Mute 's stance follows the news that music industry magazine Music Week is taking the first step to redefining the term ‘ independent ’ by running ‘ a genre chart open to all-comers ’ , next to ‘ an old-style distribution chart ’ , from September 19 .
20 The easiest way of proceeding is to have the first row as YYYYNNNN , the second row as YYNNYYNN and the final row as YNYNYNYN .
21 Now they have brought forward a plan which is that they should lend me sufficient money to rent another house in which Mr Landor is to have the first floor , comprising three rooms , a book closet , and a terrace , and I am to reside on the ground floor and care for him receiving £30 a year for my trouble .
22 a subject committee is in place to assist the development of the initiative and the intention is to have the first cohort of students enter the programme in Autumn 1993 .
23 The basic way in which these c.c.d. lines operate is to have the first capacitor connected to the input so that it samples the input voltage .
24 International Data Group 's WorldExpo Corp is to sponsor the first SunWorld Expo in Japan this week at the huge Makuhari Convention Center outside Tokyo .
25 Meanwhile , and until 14 December , Gilles Peyroulet is hosting the first solo exhibition in France of the American Ronald Jones , a neo-conceptual sculptor who manifests a special dislike of politically-committed art .
26 Your opponent is allowed the first turn , and will almost always begin by picking up two different cards , say an ace and a six .
27 Indeed , to combine a noun with a verb , he says , ‘ is to take the first step toward narrative ’ ( 1969 : 84 ) .
28 His next target is to become the first player to reach 2,000 points for the Welsh All Blacks .
29 Move the cursor onto the first letter of the word which is to become the first letter of the new paragraph .
30 The Open Software Foundation is to reveal the first snapshot of its Distributed Management Environment architecture after its members meeting in Munich on the 13th .
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