Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah so it 's the first person who spells sex maniac |
| 2 | We 're , working on an hotel project I think and we 're up to week thirteen on the programme and I think you might be able to see on week thirteen and given the information we 've got at the moment as well , it means we 're gon na be working on three floors at once so it was the first thing to identify . |
| 3 | Admittedly in one or two cases the inference is fairly marginal but nevertheless it 's the first time all the numbers have been positive . |
| 4 | No time like the present and anyway it is the first day of Lent . ’ |
| 5 | Anyway it 's the first time since the Revie years that we 've won 5 on the trot in the league so lets just be happy for a while . |
| 6 | This , I discovered , is common in lung cancer ; in fact , quite often it is the first symptom to show itself — well before any pain or cough develops . |
| 7 | Well it 's the first thing that comes . |
| 8 | Well it 's the first time I 've been |
| 9 | Surprisingly it was the first time that Arsenal 's all-star attack had scored three goals in a game this season as they wrecked Coventry 's unbeaten away record with superb strikes from Alan Smith , Ian Wright and Kevin Campbell . |
| 10 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 11 | Fortunately it was the first class in English literature , so I did no more than introduce myself and give the reading assignment for the next week . |
| 12 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 13 | We come back to in fact it 's the first par , again it 's the first part of thirty three , that you have looked at the question , or the possibility of expanding existing towns and villages , and as I read it , you have rejected that , er and therefore you see the only satisfactory method of providing land to meet the figures for the Greater York would be by a new settlement , this is the outstanding balance . |