Example sentences of "[conj] it is the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is the second aspect which concerns speechreaders , you may be interested to share some discoveries made by the 1979 study group from their own experience , and from my own experience since 1972 . |
| 2 | Mr Prokhorov said that the answer to the contradiction between political renewal and economic crisis lay in Marxism , which ‘ teaches us that the superstructure is more mobile than the base , and that it is the first to react to a change of conditions . ’ |
| 3 | It may well be that it is the first of these , his work in children 's theatre , for which he will be most remembered , for he revolutionised the whole conception of what forms theatre for children might take . |
| 4 | This morning she gives priority to the fact that it is the first day of the winter term , and that she has a lecture to deliver and two tutorials to conduct . |
| 5 | He says that it is the first time the Japanese governent has expressed interest in the IASC 's work . |
| 6 | Headline of the week so far comes from Reuter , which says MICROSOFT SHIPS WIDOWS IN JAPANESE , but the truth is that Microsoft Corp said the Japanese-language edition of the Windows operating system version 3.1 is now being shipped , adding that it is the first retail version for personal computers to be introduced in Japan , and that 24 of the OEM customers supporting Windows in Japan are offering it pre-installed and preconfigured on their machines as part of Microsoft 's Windows Ready-to-Run programme ; Microsoft is also set with Windows 3.1 in Korean and Chinese . |
| 7 | Memorex Telex NV 's Peripherals Group in Milpitas , California has made good on its promise to offer a version of its 5100 Automated Tape Library for IBM Corp AS/400 9406 processors , and claims that it is the first such library in the AS/400 market . |
| 8 | The company claims that it is the first graphical tool set specifically designed to make C++ code re-use a practical reality . |
| 9 | AEG AG 's Fort Lauderdale , Florida-based Modular Computer Systems Inc reports that X/Open Co Ltd has completed the certification of its Real/IX real-time Unix operating system , and claims that it is the first real-time Unix to be registered with X/Open under its test and verification programme for open systems . |
| 10 | NDT Eagle 's training facility can now boast that it is the first to employ three ASNT level III accredited tutors . |
| 11 | The scheme 's novelty lies in the fact that it is the first instance of an officially sponsored immigration programme . |
| 12 | And the fact that it is the first true country club in the area . |
| 13 | Greenpeace welcomed the voluntary agreement " provided that it is the first step towards an enforceable tanker exclusion zone " . |
| 14 | Haran has suggested however that in a few cases " the intended number is the first of the two " ; 29 but in Job 33.14 and Ps 62.12 , which he cites , it can be maintained much more convincingly that it is the second number that is " intended " or the more precise . |
| 15 | We shall find that it is the second and third of these recapitulations and expansions of the primal trauma which are of special relevance to an understanding of modern social conditions and present day ego-psychology . |
| 16 | Note , in the second bar , that it is the 2nd clarinet which completes the chord on the flutes because the 1st clarinet has a solo passage in the next bar . |
| 17 | Not only does Mrs Whitehouse believe that Christianity is under threat from political revolution , but also that it is the last line of defence against such revolution . |
| 18 | Pahl ( 1984 ) asserts that it is the last hundred years that have been the aberration compared with the greater flexibility of both earlier periods and the present time . |
| 19 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
| 20 | There were three men named Robert Bindloss , and it is the first Sir Robert , a famous character , who is of particular interest in this context because of his fame in the wool trade . |
| 21 | This is the ship named after the hero of the Argentine Navy in the 19th century , and it is the first of four Meko type destroyers that Buenos Aires has purchased from the Hamburg shipyard ( who in turn have been supplied with Rolls-Royce engines ) . |
| 22 | Yesterday 's bombs are thought to have been Semtex and it is the first time outside the capital that devices have been casually placed by the road side . |
| 23 | Second column , and it is the second paragraph , where it says to provide contingency plans to improve seven section , seventeen budget by two hundred thousand pounds . |
| 24 | ‘ We are her close friends and it is the last thing we would do . |
| 25 | Classical theory , as applied in Butler Machine Tool Co Ltd v Ex-Cell-O Corpn ( England ) Ltd [ 1979 ] 1 WLR 401 , would suggest a mirror image rule , namely , each proffering of standard terms is a counter-offer , and it is the last document proffered which embodies the final offer when the recipient accepts by acting upon it . |
| 26 | Next week sees the anniversary of the battle and it is the 75th anniversary of the Air Force . |
| 27 | Lord Aldington replied : ‘ This will be the hundredth time you say what I 've said is a lie , and it is the hundredth time you have made me very angry . ’ |
| 28 | If it is the first flight of the day for you , then it should always be the aim to make it an accurate spot landing . |
| 29 | When you meet somebody , especially if it is the first time of meeting , your senses are working flat out to process all the data . |
| 30 | Inevitably there is a certain amount of routine in everyone 's life and the person who lives alone also needs to establish some routine , no matter how tempting it may be to lead an unfettered existence , particularly if it is the first time you have lived on your own . |