Example sentences of "is [adj] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 ( b ) If he is dishonest by the first test : " The jury must consider whether the defendant himself must have realised that what he was doing was by those standards dishonest . "
2 ‘ An inquiry whether anything and if so what is due to the first defendant for any and what costs charges and expenses properly incurred under or in respect of the said mortgage debentures and mortgages including the costs of this action .
3 It is priced from $316,000 and is due in the first quarter of next year .
4 For those prisoners who co-operate , the regime is semi-open after the first third of their sentence .
5 This is usual for the first week after a strike but it would not surprise me if things began to happen later in the week .
6 However , in Amphioplus there is a more or less superficial second papilla next to the infradental papilla which is homologous with the first oral tentacle scale .
7 The fourth attribute demanded by George Corner , that of understanding , is possible for the first time in the history of civilization ; but it is a possibility which so far is available to only a small minority of specialists .
8 But one thing that the introduction of the original version should have highlighted is how a break-up and subsequent reconstruction of the text is possible in the first place .
9 Freud 's view here is Comtean ; he thinks in terms of three stages for the progress of civilization , beginning with the animistic phase , to which modern obsessional or paranoid neurotics regress , going through an intermediate phase of religion , which is different from the first because people give the powers and omnipotence to gods , and not to themselves as they do in the magical phase of animism .
10 As there may be in excess of 1000 mouth to feed , then it can prove difficult to keep up a constant supply of live foods and the authors have found that dried food is adequate as a first food .
11 The risk of death is high for the first year of life , falls sharply to reach a minimum during the teens then climbs , especially from middle age onwards .
12 The raked-back headstock is scarfed-on behind the first fret , in keeping with the price category of the bass , but the use of Gotoh machines provides a classy finishing touch and makes adjustment positive and easy .
13 The predefinition is manifest in the first place in the planning literature produced by the Shetland Islands Council , specifically the Shetland Structure Plan published in 1976 .
14 The second example is similar to the first , but in the more familiar surroundings of a IF statement .
15 the example below is similar to the first one , but the angle is in degrees .
16 ( The DEG function is equivalent to multiplying by 180/PI. ) the example below is similar to the first one , but the angle is in degrees .
17 Now denoting the nominal demand for money by MD , we can write in functional form : unc A simplified version of this function can be obtained by using real national income ( Y ) as an indicator of total wealth and by assuming that h is constant and that the function is homogeneous of the first degree in P. We can then write the real demand for money as : unc Monetarists generally believe the demand for money to be fairly unresponsive to interest rate changes ( and this is supported by empirical evidence ) .
18 Higher rate of SMP is payable for the first six weeks of her absence .
19 A total of $57 million is payable in the first year , with the remainder due over 20 years .
20 If the property is subject to a first mortgage and is , for instance , to be conveyed from the husband to the wife , subject to a charge being given in favour of the husband to secure a fixed sum , the husband will have to be satisfied with the security of a second charge , notice of which should be served on the first mortgagee .
21 Implicitly it is consistent with the first stage of a two-stage budgeting procedure , with investors initially deciding on the level of investment in a particular location and then determining the asset allocation of that investment .
22 If the latter 's optical axis is parallel to that of the first crystal than the beam is totally transmitted , if it is perpendicular to the first optical axis none of the beam gets through .
23 I know , I know , 1 hear you say , this precious Boy of yours surely has no imagination if he is content with the first place he finds and the very first crowd of men that he runs across .
24 An ‘ Engineering Applications ’ laboratory is available , which ensures that the practical component of the course is prominent in the first and second years .
25 We will assign any node j for which or is basic to the first generation and say that the parent of j is 1 , writing P(j) = 1 .
26 If circumstances such as time and place are relevant to the question whether the conduct is disorderly in the first place , what sorts of factors should the court ( or the policeman on the spot ) take into account in deciding whether or not the conduct was ‘ reasonable ’ ?
27 — This best selling program lacks nothing , it is obvious within the first five minutes of using the program that the author has listened to end users and their requirements .
28 It is inconsistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments .
29 It is inconsistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments .
30 In fact , the estimated weights which the individual attaches to these extra income receipts is negative in the first period and positive in the second period ( except in Model 3 , but insignificantly ) .
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