Example sentences of "first of [det] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principle which would have to be established first of all is that each person in the world ( all those aged 21 or over , suggests Dr Grubb ) would have an equal share in man-made carbon dioxide emissions , regardless of whether he lived in a rich developed country or a poor one which produced hardly any carbon dioxide at all . |
| 2 | What I want to make sure first of all is that erm you understand what has gone on before the scene that we actually want to find ourselves in . |
| 3 | What the team demonstrated first of all was that there are attitudes to safety such as ‘ accidents will happen ’ and , when contractors are involved , ‘ accidents will definitely happen . ’ |
| 4 | The first of these is that , like Cassandra , they will be right but nobody will believe them . |
| 5 | The first of these is that the word generally translated as ‘ carpenter ’ does not , in the original Greek , mean merely a woodworker . |
| 6 | The first of these is that while anthropology purports to say things about man and humanity at large , anthropological practice has fairly consistently been concentrated upon the study of " primitive " man rather than man as such . |
| 7 | The first of these is that a basic system with only 640k of RAM will be unable to use smartdrv , since it requires either expanded ( at least 256k ) or extended ( at least 512k ) memory . |