Example sentences of "is [verb] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its aim is to provide the first comprehensive study of childhood injuries in the district and form the basis of an accident prevention drive . |
| 2 | The Office des Communications Sociales of Montreal , Canada , is holding the first national conference on the Church and communication in Cap-Rouge , 4–6 June . |
| 3 | Bavaria is facing the first major sell-off of an historic private collection since the war , and they have consulted Britain on how to respond , as England is all too used to such dispersals ( Yet another took place last month with the sale of Pitchford Hall ) . |
| 4 | She 's abroad but is getting the first available flight back . |
| 5 | His advice is to study the first four pages of the explanatory booklet carefully , particularly paragraph six — action to take now . |
| 6 | THE British Government is taking the first tentative steps to standardise the computers and computer equipment that are bought by civil servants . |
| 7 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 8 | That 's my normal naming convention , my normal naming convention is use the first two letters W L. W I 've explained , and L stands for linking . |
| 9 | From such protests , and meetings in family homes , grew the Stroud based Menigitis Trust , which is organising the first international conference , being held in Britain next week , aimed at wiping out the disease . |
| 10 | He has not learned how to love properly , how to relate with a woman in a caring sense but , above all , he has not learned how to differentiate between an adolescent who is feeling the first stirring of her hormones and a fully-grown woman who is properly able to make her own emotional and sexual choices . |
| 11 | Surrey County Council is to become the first local authority to sign the Peatland Protection Charter , and to commit itself to the phasing out of the use of peat in the council 's public parks , gardens and other landscaping activities . |
| 12 | At Hansaring 77 , Désiré Feuerle is featuring the first one-woman show in Germany of Italian artist Ilaria Bona . |
| 13 | BORIS Yeltsin is to make the first official visit to Britain by a Russian president in November . |