Example sentences of "the first [noun] [that] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 2 | The first doubt that this proposal might , after all , be genuine occurred to her . |
| 3 | The first evidence that this was on its way was noticed towards the end of March , when a patch of snow just below and to the south of the Main Crater began to melt , and simultaneously , activity in the North-East Crater began to die down . |
| 4 | The first sign that this was happening in Langbaurgh came shortly after 1am , as the votes came in from Marske and Longbeck , Marton and Nunthorpe . |
| 5 | As the sopranos of the WI soared off into the upper atmosphere he began to feel for the first time that this Christmas had meaning . |
| 6 | This is the first time that this development has been made manifest . |
| 7 | As Robert points out this is the first time that this function has been run as a single corporate entity . |
| 8 | This is not the first time that this issue has reached the public domain , or will it be the last time that the House is asked to focus on the rights and duties of citizens in circumstances — from time to time inevitable circumstances — when the interests of one individual or one set of individuals necessarily impinge on and potentially damage the interests of others . |
| 9 | The referendum results were thus automatically invalidated — the first time that this had happened . |
| 10 | The in-can system , for which we hold the patent , won The Queen 's Award for Technological Achievement in 1991 — the first time that this award has been given to a brewer . |
| 11 | It is accepted by Mr. Marten for the first defendant that this was a correct direction . |
| 12 | The audience influences the style by indicating the seriousness , formality , or otherwise that the publication should adopt and the first area that this affects is the way the text is laid out on the page . |
| 13 | One of the first indications that this belief would have to be abandoned came when calculations by the British scientists Lord Rayleigh and Sir James Jeans suggested that a hot object , or body , such as a star , must radiate energy at an infinite rate . |