Example sentences of "first [is] that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that a human observer has more or less direct access to some properties of the external world insofar as those properties are recorded by the brain in the act of seeing . |
| 2 | The first is that the five senses do not and can not give us ‘ unvarnished news ’ — information independent of the concepts used to classify it . |
| 3 | The first is that the principal postwar task will be the search for peace , an idea which will naturally commend itself both to those who have taken part in the war , and to those who have not . |
| 4 | The first is that the arithmetical accuracy of a profit and loss budget must be confirmed by the preparation of a budgeted balance sheet as at the period end . |
| 5 | The first is that the long term survival after oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation and endoscopic sclerotherapy are identical and the second is that the surgical procedure is significantly more expensive than repeated sclerotherapy . |
| 6 | The first is that the traditional account of the Muftilik is in an important respect at odds with the facts since the dating of the Muftilik of Molla Abdulkerim in the traditional list can be shown not to accord either with the earliest biographical information or with such little documentary evidence as exists , this fact , in turn , having implications for the dating of the periods of office of several other Muftis . |
| 7 | The first is that the required rate of return is constant over the period under consideration . |
| 8 | The first is that the Prime Minister has always said she regards the fight against inflation as paramount . |
| 9 | The first is that the social purpose framework — of raising collective working-class consciousness through critical , liberal educational processes — has been of central importance in the development of community adult education practice in Britain . |
| 10 | The first is that the constant component of monetary growth , g , does now exert an influence on real output . |
| 11 | The first is that the British coal industry will be decimated in the near future ; the second is that the present Conservative Government are actively working to achieve such a decline , together with the substantial job losses that accompany pit closures . |
| 12 | The first is that the conservation policies themselves still have many of the assumptions of the colonial model . |
| 13 | The first is that the corporate constitution does not provide that the members shall decide how the business is run , but vests decision-making power in the directors and managers . |
| 14 | The first is that the age-long silence is ended . |