Example sentences of "is [adv] the [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is presumably the first in a series of large format paperbacks , with a fairly substantial text giving a concise summary of campaign history backed up by numerous black and white photographs from government sources ; and pages of coloured artwork mostly devoted to uniformed figures , with a few showing aircraft , armour and artillery . |
| 2 | Valmorel is effectively the fourth of the Three Valleys and is approached from Aigueblanche , just outside Moutiers . |
| 3 | Since you can pick up a no-frills steam iron for £40 or £50 I assumed it would take all the angst out of what is arguably the last of the genuinely ghastly domestic chores . |
| 4 | Krakatoa is merely the first of a whole chain of active volcanoes which arc down through the Indonesian islands and round the Pacific to form what geologists call the Ring of Fire . |
| 5 | And , if the situation with regard to individual psychological development and the evolution of culture is as I have represented it , then this is merely the first of many profound insights into the psychology of the ego — and perhaps most especially the superego — which can be expected but which were totally unobtainable as long as the individualistic fallacy blocked the way . |
| 6 | This design/build contract is only the second of its kind to be let in Scotland and will be the first to be completed . |
| 7 | The initial change in Singer from shuddering zombie to desperate fighter for life is only the first of several metamorphoses — all caught with bravura vividness in Antony Sher 's phenomenally versatile performance . |
| 8 | In vitro fertilisation is only the first of a long line of reproductive technologies which may be developed in the future . |
| 9 | That 's right , if you 're organizing something like that and thinking about it from now , this is only the first of September , but |
| 10 | I would like to add that it is only the first of many Platinum Hotels I intend to open throughout the world . ’ |
| 11 | Their Lordships agree that the mere existence or recital of a prior request is not sufficient in itself to convert what is prima facie past consideration into sufficient consideration in law to support a promise , as they have indicated , it is only the first of three necessary preconditions . |
| 12 | As time went on , and the sultans who succeeded Mehmed II built their own medreses , the Sahn slipped from its position as the highest class of medreses , and , in the fully elaborated hierarchy , is only the sixth of twelve grades above the 40-akce level . |
| 13 | Our case is thus the first to be described . |
| 14 | His interest in Edmund Ironside and Edward the Martyr is thus the first of several indications that attitudes to religion in his reign may have had distinct political overtones . |
| 15 | Lakefield Canoe Club has always specialised in running wild water rivers and this is not the first of the clubs pioneering ventures into little known canoeing waters . |
| 16 | Our newsletter is not the first to be produced using desktop publishing methods , in the UK that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , a bi-monthly journal for authors and writers . |
| 17 | One of them , this is not the first in the but one of them is that democracy may well throw up unworthy rulers . |
| 18 | Nineteen-twenty-four is not the last in God 's programme of creation . |
| 19 | One reason is that many suspect this is just the first of several unwelcome shifts in the government 's funding pattern , despite official promises to the contrary . |
| 20 | According to Doug Michels , executive vice president and cofounder of SCO , SCO IPX/SPX is just the first of a number of proposed SCO-Novell products . |
| 21 | The centre hopes that Shashis success is just the first at the new Winwood clinic . |
| 22 | This is usually an underestimate as the first logical overflow record is always the last from that track physically and tends to be located near the end of the overflow track . |
| 23 | Singer Chris is probably the first since Silverfish 's Lesley from these parts to totally revel in being a pack leader . |
| 24 | This is probably the last of what can be described as a traditional Farnborough year , although many of the old faces were disappearing , many new faces were emerging too . |
| 25 | The quantum challenge is probably the last of Einstein 's contributions to fundamental physics that has enduring value . |
| 26 | Though he sits by the gate of Shiloh , in his blindness watching the road , he is nearly the last in the town to hear the news . |
| 27 | The emotional covenant is often the first to be formed . |
| 28 | Education is often the first to be squeezed at a time of cuts . |
| 29 | The obvious route is often the last to be taken . |
| 30 | The stronger sense of is strike off " , wrench loose " , and this is surely the last in a progression of " violent " verbs , beginning with diffugere and going on through and before coming to ( or rather , ) at the poem 's despairing close . |