Example sentences of "[noun] is [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right of elderly people to take risks is emphasised in the first national guidelines on restraint in residential care and nursing homes . |
| 2 | The outlook in the UK is still gloomy , McAlpine says , borrowings short-term will rise , and a small loss is anticipated in the first half ; but site costs are down , and site visits are up sharply . |
| 3 | The introduction to the study is contained in the first two or three paragraphs of the article , which also briefly summarize its results and implications . |
| 4 | The intermingling of theory and practice is shown in the first place by the fact that the systematic study of politics is far from being confined to institutions of higher learning , even though academic political studies , like the social sciences generally , have undergone a remarkable expansion during the present century . |
| 5 | ‘ But my biggest ambition is to play in the First Division for Middlesbrough . ’ |
| 6 | Barbel Abela is competing in the first round-the-world air race in a fifty-year-old bomber . |
| 7 | A small amount of mixed low-viscosity resin/ hardener is applied to the first face , which is mounted on the lapped surface of the slide . |
| 8 | If the answer turns out to be by a ‘ dock identification ’ ( i.e. the witness is identified for the first time in court ) then it must be remembered that this procedure is potentially so unfair to the accused that the court of trial retains a discretion to prevent it ( Horsham JJ. , ex p . |
| 9 | The control signal for the switch is derived from the first divider bistable ( at twice the core switching frequency ) by differentiating the square wave and clipping off the negative pulses with a diode . |
| 10 | It may also , of course , be the reason why the action is lost in the first place , because evidence for the truth of the statement is unavailable from the person who originally made it . |
| 11 | ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . ) |
| 12 | Her eye for the natural scene is revealed for the first time in her ‘ Alfoxden Journal ’ ( 1798 ) , the first fruit of the creative partnership between brother and sister which is celebrated at the climax of Wordsworth 's ‘ Tintern Abbey ’ . |
| 13 | A woman seeks the truth of her ancestry , and discovers truth can be what you want it to be ; in a hospital a neglected old man weaves fables in a lost language ; fantasy becomes reality when a young boy 's sense of wonder is awakened by the first man in space ; a man 's obsession with ‘ the dogs ’ has grim but farcical consequences ; a couple 's holiday in France is disturbed by the ghosts of war ; a chance encounter brings an unexpected delight to a birdwatcher . |
| 14 | Ivan 's son Djuradj is honoured as the first man to introduce a printing press into the Balkans . |
| 15 | For reasons of classification and sample size , not all the headings in Tables 3.1 and 3.2 are comparable , and law is omitted from the first and medicine from the second . |
| 16 | But in mediaeval woodcuts , on stained-glass windows and in classical Christian art , the apple symbolizes the first sin and Eve is portrayed as the first sinner . |
| 17 | Pirelli confirms a pan-European TV campaign is planned for the first time , positioning the company 's tyre products as chic and high-performance . |
| 18 | Responsibility for drafting the bill and printing is borne by the Member although financial assistance is given to the first ten members and drafting assistance is given to any member whose bill appears to have a chance of becoming law . |
| 19 | Swedish certainties David Platt and Paul Parker return after missing the win over France , while John Barnes is included for the first time this season . |
| 20 | The gallery is approached from the first floor . |
| 21 | The national selectors indicated before England 's unexpected success in the HDM international tournament at The Hague that they wanted to test other members of their squad before the team is announced for the first official internationals of the season , the Four Nation tournament at Crystal Palace in a month 's time . |
| 22 | The contradictions between these implicit tendencies and Goody 's explicit rejection of them can be explained by the framework of distinctions on which the inquiry is based in the first place . |
| 23 | For now , attention is focused on the first two reasons why firms invest , rather than rely purely on third-party trade . |
| 24 | Formal announcement is not expected before the autumn , and the product is planned for the first half of next year , with the prime target market seen as MS-DOS users that have not yet succumbed to the blandishments of Windows and might otherwise jump straight to NT . |
| 25 | When a direct file is loaded for the first time , we may have little or no information about the individual records that make it up . |
| 26 | The background to the Essex initiative is described in the first annual report for 1981–1982 ( Taylor , 1983 ) as follows : |
| 27 | The record is stored in the first bucket with available space following the original home bucket . ) |
| 28 | The second point is related to the first : the scientific research-programme that is AI includes a number of significantly different approaches . |
| 29 | This point is noted in the First Periodic Report on the social and economic situation in the regions of the EC ( 1981 ) . |
| 30 | This time an overseas crew from South Africa is competing for the first time . |