Example sentences of "first be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that the wind tends to lift the upwind wing-tip and the second is that the glider tends to weathercock into the wind . |
| 2 | The first is that there is no need to follow slavishly the whole procedure for each offence . |
| 3 | The first is that the opponent 's punch need miss only by the smallest amount . |
| 4 | The first is that you must be the correct distance from your opponent ; that is at his closest kicking range ( any closer and he wo n't kick at all ) . |
| 5 | The first is that the needles act to stimulate the nerves , causing the brain to produce endomorphins . |
| 6 | The first is that it will be harder for the Tories to portray Labour as a party gripped by extremism . |
| 7 | The first is that there are no Alps like the Swiss Alps . |
| 8 | The first is that insofar as people continue to believe the figures , the Government derives an unfair advantage . |
| 9 | The first is that the Prime Minister has always said she regards the fight against inflation as paramount . |
| 10 | The first is that both Labour and the Conservatives emerge more or less united — the former striking an attacking pose in the foreground , the latter stoutly closing defensive ranks behind . |
| 11 | The first is that the US ski areas are no match in scale or mountain drama for those of the Alps . |
| 12 | The first is that Luftwaffe defences became better , too , and that caused a high price to be paid in terms of casualties . |
| 13 | The first is that the policies have largely been implemented as intended and that they are bearing fruit . |
| 14 | The first is that , contrary to what is implied in Harold Nicolson 's biography , Sir Herbert Samuel , who saw the King shortly after noon , was not the first to make the suggestion that there should be a National Government : the first suggestion came from the King himself . |
| 15 | The first is that the possibility of a revolution occurring in a country where capitalism was poorly developed made him aware of the problem of setting up too rigid a sequence for human evolution . |
| 16 | The first is that it shows well the distinction Engels makes between general principles — in this case the dissolution of communal organization and the rise of class — and specific cases . |
| 17 | The first is that the history of the Kalahari Bushmen is just as long as those of technologically more advanced people of today , and so they are not representative of an ‘ earlier period ’ in the history of mankind . |
| 18 | The first is that three nuns from the same order work in the largest of the villages , Kormakiti , and so we provide a useful link . |
| 19 | The first is that no one and no book can teach us to pray . |
| 20 | ‘ I would make two points : the first is that a lot of very small-scale activity does achieve results . |
| 21 | The first is that there is in the developed world a new culture of environmental awareness . |
| 22 | The first is that the Wall Street Crash of October and November 1929 , and the economic impact which it exerted upon the world markets , increased unemployment to three millions , about a quarter of the workforce , and created the financial problems which Philip Snowden faced in trying to balance the budget in 1931 . |
| 23 | The first is that there can not be a ‘ gene for altruistic behaviour ’ , because such behaviour would require the action of genes at many loci , and also a host of environmental preconditions ; behaviour is a product of the whole organism , not of a single gene . |
| 24 | The first is that if she stayed it would look as if the Conservatives were resorting to desperate measures . |
| 25 | The first is that the recession they have caused and which so nearly ditched them will not go away automatically . |
| 26 | The first is that the conservation policies themselves still have many of the assumptions of the colonial model . |
| 27 | The first is that the NRC co-ordinates strategy and the deployment of officers on a national basis in consultation with the Home Office , which may well have keen political interests in the matter to hand . |
| 28 | The first is that , since it is difficult for each authority to make its decision within the framework of a general view of social needs and social capacity to pay , the total amount of taxation tends to be raised above what it would be in a more unified system . |
| 29 | The first is that until 1983 all exports and imports were valued in so-called ‘ statistical ’ dollars , by converting the original valuations into dollars at the rate of exchange ruling at the beginning of the year . |
| 30 | The first is that the impact of the debt crisis has been considerably cushioned by injections of aid from the United States which rose from US$14 million in 1980 to over US$160 million in 1987 . |