Example sentences of "is [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He served for three years , originally as chairman , and it is as the first chairman of the future Labour party that he achieved his principal prominence in labour history . |
| 2 | Natural water from two 300ft boreholes beneath Huddersfield , West Yorkshire , is for the first time to be bottled , and sold to France . |
| 3 | Your brain is for the first time having to struggle and strive and keep really busy , which is great . |
| 4 | The offence is for the first time triable either way , and is punishable on indictment with either three years ’ imprisonment or a fine and summarily with six months imprisonment and a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum . |
| 5 | The UK government is for the first time to publish environmental conditions attached to the granting of oil drilling licenses . |
| 6 | It has to be said that the user interface to DW1.2 is of the first order . |
| 7 | The nave is of the first quarter of the 17C and the altars are of the 1670s . |
| 8 | The overall picture is of the first generation harbouring little interest in sport , apart from horse racing ! |
| 9 | The evaluation reported here is of the first versions of the lexical access component ( LA ) and of the project 's acoustic-phonetic front-end ( SEGLAB ) . |
| 10 | The work of the Hague Conference on Private International Law is of the first importance in this area . |
| 11 | ‘ Whatever you see never exists simply and solely by itself , as an isolated sign or symbol , but by playing its part within a context in which relatedness as such is of the first importance ’ . |
| 12 | This advance is of the first importance to the population of the People 's Republic of China , and an agreement is being entered into between the Rank Xerox Unit and the Demography Institute of the University of Peking in Beijing . |
| 13 | Secondly , an individual needs to undergo toilet-training not merely because of the demands of common decency and modern personal hygiene , but , much more importantly , because we live in a culture in which an ability to control sadistic drives is of the first importance , both for the quality of our civilization and for the acquisition and protection of our cultural wealth in general . |
| 14 | Its lessening and perhaps even virtual disappearance in some cases as a culturally-marked developmental period is of the first importance and is one of the most disquieting symptoms of modern social change . |
| 15 | This information is of the first importance . |
| 16 | His company decimated by murderous shell-fire even before reaching the objective , Jubert found himself alone , possibly the only surviving officer , and sent off a message to his battalion commander : ‘ I do not know where I am , but the position is of the first importance , and I have only ten men to hold it . ’ |
| 17 | While none of these pictures is of the first rank , some are of interest : Paris Bordone 's ‘ A Courtesan ’ ; Pietro Marescalchi 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned , with Saints James the Greater and Prosdocimus ’ of 1564 and Michele Giambono 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned ’ . |
| 18 | But it is like the first scenario in this : both kinds of eroticism are specific to male bonding , both occur within and against the very situations in which heterosexuality is most ardently pursued , and both are in part the consequence of heterosexual ardour . |
| 19 | The entry is from the first floor . |
| 20 | The entrance to the gallery is from the first floor . |
| 21 | just to point out to members that the promised report on the lorry management plan which is in the first preparation has been put back to the January committee meeting on the Highways Committee so that we can get full advantage from the traffic and |
| 22 | When the node is in the first layer , then xj is sj . |
| 23 | Callinicos ' defence of classical Marxism , of historical materialism , is in the first instance deployed against a postmodernism which has come to proclaim the death of the grand narrative of emancipation and the need for a new form of politics not constructed along the lines of the traditional left . |
| 24 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 25 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 26 | ‘ The Association is not a universal provider … its mission … is in the first place to the educationally underprivileged … it must include a substantial body of work sufficiently intensive and prolonged to exercise a permanent influence on students . ’ |
| 27 | The idea that femininity is in the first place to be associated with motherhood is simply writ large . |
| 28 | The interrelations of the meanings and associations of words within a text ( ‘ the dimension of coherence ’ ) is in the first place , one' might say , a purely mental event , but its effect is to modify , enrich or enlarge the reader 's experience of the realities to which these meanings and associations refer . |
| 29 | It is in the first place striking that in the Old French fabliaux , a male rival or spoiler is more commonly the butt of the humour than a female , though examples of the latter situation are reasonably numerous . |
| 30 | This country is in the first rank of the European Community and will remain so . |