Example sentences of "is [verb] to [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The auricular surface ( articulating with the ilium ) is limited to the first and second sacral vertebrae in the female , but in the male it often extends to the middle of the third vertebra . |
| 2 | It is given to the first child , through no fault of its own , to disrupt what has been an exclusive , reciprocal relationship as no subsequent child has power to do . |
| 3 | ( In the USA priority is given to the first to invent , not the first to file . ) |
| 4 | The name " Pentateuch " is given to the first five books of the Bible . |
| 5 | Responsibility for drafting the bill and printing is borne by the Member although financial assistance is given to the first ten members and drafting assistance is given to any member whose bill appears to have a chance of becoming law . |
| 6 | Independent interrogation by the police is confined to the first 48 hours after the offence has been reported . |
| 7 | Many people would claim that the role of science is confined to the first of these and that theoretical physics will have achieved its goal when we have obtained a complete set of local physical laws . |
| 8 | Although it is scattered throughout the idealised version , in the original version it is confined to the first half of the story . |
| 9 | Hermeneutics is committed to the first and hence to giving some account of how internal orderings relate to reality . |
| 10 | Enright , the demonstrative " this ' highlights the spatial dimension of an implied situation of utterance , and therefore mobilises a poetic persona functioning as deictic centre even if no explicit reference is made to a first person speaker . |
| 11 | A small amount of mixed low-viscosity resin/ hardener is applied to the first face , which is mounted on the lapped surface of the slide . |
| 12 | That insecurity is transferred to the first child . |
| 13 | The second point is related to the first : the scientific research-programme that is AI includes a number of significantly different approaches . |
| 14 | The course commences with a Premedical year of studies taking the same course as is offered to the first year Biological Sciences students . |
| 15 | The start time is given in VMS absolute time format : dd-mmm-yyyy hh:mm:ss.cc where omitted fields default to system date and time ; month is abbreviated to the first three letters ( uppercase ) . |
| 16 | The value of the first parameter in the line using the procedure or function is passed to the first variable named in the parameter list in the definition , the second to the second , and so on . |
| 17 | When the second CLI command file terminates , control is returned to the first CLI command file . |