Example sentences of "first has [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Putting the ‘ political kingdom ’ first has been expensive and is now self-evidently an expense which Africa can no longer afford . |
| 2 | The first has been the slow change-over from travel by train to travel by car . |
| 3 | The first has been to satisfy the objective which has already been stated : to display identity by assuming ( and from the fourteenth century being granted ) arms of individual distinction . |
| 4 | After all , earth was not made in a day and there is always scope for a second project once the first has been completed and shown to be a success . |
| 5 | The first has been the link between the work of some tribunals and the development of a fully-fledged system of administrative law in England and Wales . |
| 6 | The first has been to reduce the rate at which welfare expenditure was increasing . |
| 7 | The first has been done for you . |
| 8 | First has been research focused upon chronology of landscape change which has ( Butzer , 1974 ; Vita-Finzi , 1969 ) demonstrated how human activity was a pertinent factor influencing the course of alluvial chronology and in Greece Davidson ( 1980a ) has demonstrated that erosion was underway during the Bronze Age but that spatial variations were substantial . |
| 9 | The first has been to show that the long-run incidence of taxation , or other government measures , might be markedly different from the short-run incidence . |
| 10 | The first has been very clearly described by Meredydd Hughes ( Hughes et al. |
| 11 | The first has been fighting a ( largely losing ) battle against social condemnation of " stealing other people 's homes " ; the second has been the mechanism by which to carry out government 's policies to protect some short-term occupiers ( tenants , with exclusive possession ) but not others ( licensees ) . |
| 12 | The first has been handled sensitively , and actress Nicola Strong has given some powerful performances as the daughter coming to terms with her past . |