Example sentences of "it the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately the judges agreed , and awarded it the first prize . |
| 2 | Jonathan always thinks that what he says is so fantastic that he 's got to say it twice in case you missed it the first time round . |
| 3 | Between the last years of the 16C and about 1653 , they rebuilt the Church of St Salvator making it the first church in Prague of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 4 | The dog is commanded to sit and if he does n't do it the first time , he is pushed gently into position . |
| 5 | On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster . |
| 6 | Nor is it the first time that Rupert 's good name has been besmirched . |
| 7 | It was only when they came out of the rearmost door and found a temporary hut facing them with Radio Room marked on the door , that they realised why they had n't found it the first time . |
| 8 | He misses it the first time , but I 've written it exactly like he played it , because it does n't really sound too bad ! |
| 9 | Is it the first verse of ‘ Three Blind Mice ’ or ‘ Mary , Mary Quite Contrary ’ or ‘ Jack and Jill ’ ? |
| 10 | Suppose , for example , that your most recent life had been a particularly horrifying and traumatic one : you would not really want to experience it the first time you were regressed , as you might not be able to cope . |
| 11 | Round and round , and back again , everything spins around , passing by if you missed it the first time . |
| 12 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 13 | Is it the first time , for instance , you have been told you only enter into relationships for what you can get out of them ? |
| 14 | He really did n't like it the first time we played it , so he tried spoiling it . |
| 15 | It 's harder when you do it the first thing . |
| 16 | Hitachi Data Systems claims that its 7490E Cartridge Tape Subsystem , now shipping , makes it the first IBMulator to deliver 36-track , bi-directional tape units with improved control units that provide higher performance and direct Escon channel attachment . |
| 17 | Verbatim Corp , Charlotte , North Carolina has come out with a 3.5 ’ partial-ROM optical disk , calling it the first image and data storage optical product to combine both magneto-optic and read-only functionality : the read-only part of the disk can be embossed permanently with data , such as an application , and the rewritable portion of the disk is available for user files ; the disks have total combined ROM and rewritable capacity of 128Mb . |
| 18 | Scotts Valley , California-based Microport Inc 's implementation of Unix System V.4 now supports Corollary Inc 's multiprocessor and XM multiprocessor hardware designs , saying it makes it the first independent software vendor to provide a shrink-wrapped multiprocessing version of the operating system . |
| 19 | IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture is starting to pick up acolytes , and Informix Software Inc , Menlo Park has announced Informix-Gateway with DRDA , claiming that this makes it the first major Unix database vendor fully to support the IBM architecture . |
| 20 | Marchmont was driven to complain that Anson had been ready enough to promise that he would ‘ do it the first moment it was possible ’ , and had already been strongly urged to promote Lieutenant Home by the Duke of Newcastle , but yet had done nothing . |
| 21 | Unix System Labs Inc last week said it has started delivering early access versions of Distributed Computing Environment DCE/SVR4 secure code to its OEMs , calling it the first tangible results of its new-found rapprochement with the Open Software Foundation . |
| 22 | Burlington , California-based Object Design Inc has put ObjectStore , its object-oriented database system , on SunSoft Inc 's Solaris 2.1 , making it the first object database ported to the system . |
| 23 | Scotts Valley , California-based Microport Inc 's System V.4 now supports Corollary Inc 's multiprocessor and XM multiprocessor hardware designs , making it the first independent software vendor to provide a shrinkwrapped multiprocessing version of Unix SVR4 . |
| 24 | IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture is starting to pick up acolytes , and Informix Software Inc , Menlo Park has announced Informix-Gateway with DRDA , claiming that this makes it the first major Unix database vendor fully to support the IBM architecture . |
| 25 | MapInfo Inc , Troy , New York , is shipping its MapBasic Development Environment for Unix calling it the first programming language for GUI systems allowing corporate developers to customise desktop mapping applications for a given industry or department . |
| 26 | Object Design also announced that it has done an implementation of its ObjectStore object-oriented database for the NCR Corp System 3000 , making it the first object database on NCR kit under Unix System V.4 . |
| 27 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 28 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 29 | From this sort of questioning , it is possible to draw conclusions about the impact of the ad — was it the first or second mentioned by most people , or did no one mention it at all ? |
| 30 | A passageway crossed left and right before her ; a little way along the right-hand corridor she could see a wide opening in the wall , and through it the first few steps of a wide staircase leading upwards . |