Example sentences of "first [be] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would make two points : the first is that a lot of very small-scale activity does achieve results . |
| 2 | The first is that a curriculum is not a plan but an experience , not a script but a play . |
| 3 | The first is that a word is typically the smallest element of a sentence which has positional mobility — that is , the smallest that can be moved around without destroying the grammaticality of the sentence ( ignoring any semantic effects ) : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The first is that a clause will be implied if it is necessary for the " business efficacy " of the contract , and would have been accepted at once by both parties when making the contract : The Moorcock ( 1889 ) 14 PD 64 at 68 . |
| 6 | The first was that a Labour government was going to rely on economic growth to finance its increases in public expenditure , the second was that it would ban fox-hunting . |
| 7 | The first was that a case such as the present was so rare that it could not of itself call for a fundamental reformulation of the underlying principle — a point which I find unimpressive , when I consider that our task is essentially to do justice between the parties in the particular case before us . |