Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | How little pacifist or humanitarian feeling was behind such notions is revealed by the concluding remark that ‘ it is only worth while waging war if the enemy can be destroyed with the first blow , which we did not manage . ’ |
| 2 | This stand-alone receiver is the latest addition to the ap range and can be seen for the first time at the London Boat Show . |
| 3 | But now five upstairs rooms have been restored , and can be seen for the first time . |
| 4 | As only the better-off members could afford the piece of silver , this can be seen as the first sign that the classless Society of Archers was being taken over by the wealthier members . |
| 5 | With hindsight , this can be seen as the first step in the transformation of Gloucester into the lord of the north , but this is to read too much into a single grant . |
| 6 | Habituation and sensitization — often grouped together as non-associative learning — can be seen as the first steps towards full-fledged memory , and are universal properties of all organisms with nervous systems . |
| 7 | With hindsight , this can be seen as the first step in the transformation of Gloucester into the lord of the north , but this is to read too much into a single grant . |
| 8 | : It can be seen from the first of the above tables that the mean coverage given by the second level ( 8% ) is just over half that of the first level ( 14% ) . |
| 9 | In the reception class it can be seen in the first moments of a school day . |
| 10 | Approval from America 's Environmental Protection Agency means that Portersept , made by Courtaulds Coatings in Louisville , Kentucky , can be applied for the first time to heating , ventilation and air conditioning ( HVAC ) systems . |
| 11 | It is so sensitive ( 99% accurate in laboratory testing ) that an accurate result can be obtained on the first day of a missed period . |
| 12 | In fact , we do run a project which looks at the ways science can be taught in the first school , which has been very surprising to me and many of my colleagues by what can actually be done with children in the ages of five to seven . |
| 13 | In fact , we do run a project which looks at the ways science can be taught in the first school , which has been very surprising to me and many of my colleagues by what can actually be done with children in the ages of five to seven . |
| 14 | I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman er of course these buildings are all related to the orders were discussing in order that M E Ps can be elected in the first place and is it not interesting to note that if agreement ca n't be reached as indeed is the position of the moment er in u what is called the European union over where actually the parliament is going to sit . |
| 15 | The problem with this approach is that everything in the current political scene can be redescribed as the first phase of class struggle . |
| 16 | Water conditions can be corrected at the first sign of any trouble with far less chance of an annoying , expensive and let's face it , cruel loss in the tank . |
| 17 | A similar system of HLCA payments is suggested to those available anywhere in the UK 's LFA ( minimum qualifying area per farm of 3 hectares ; maximum payments of 97 ECU/LU ) but with the added provision that HLCAs can be paid on the first 10 dairy cows per farm . |
| 18 | Some of the clocks and mechanical toys that delighted Josephine Bowes , whose father was a clock-maker , can be found on the first floor . |
| 19 | The property can be found in the first cul-de-sac on the right . |
| 20 | Thus , for example , in reference resolution , if the first complete set of resolutions of the anaphors in a QLF is deemed implausible , other possible referents will be tried exhaustively for the last anaphor to be processed before any other changes are considered ; and the second QLF , if any , will not be considered at all unless no plausible set of resolutions can be derived for the first . |
| 21 | All the ideas expressible in the second can be reproduced in the first , but , for instance , the notions of disjunction ( v ) and implication ( 6 ) and negation ( * ) which occur in the first can not be expressed in the second . |
| 22 | A similar quest can be pursued for the first book with gilt lettering on the spine — generally accepted as being the third volume of a set of Byron published by Murray in 1832 . |
| 23 | By expanding the logarithmic term and assuming that in dilute solutions this can be restricted to the first expansion term , ln a 1 can be related to the mole fraction of the solute x 2 . |
| 24 | Indeed , if there is one conclusion that can be drawn from the first year 's experience of audit regulation , it is that so far there is insufficient evidence to judge the quality of the service registered auditors provide . |