Example sentences of "it the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This makes it the first manufacturer to produce a sub-£200 24-pin printer , the company claims . |
| 3 | Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing ! |
| 4 | We do not envisage using the TA to respond immediately to outrages in Northern Ireland or to make it the first wave of our assault for the repossession of Kuwait . |
| 5 | I was lucky enough not to be court martialled , quite apart from getting away with it the first night . |
| 6 | Was n't it the first black they 'd ever had there , dad ? |
| 7 | Is the in the input embedded in would you or is it the first phoneme of judge ? |
| 8 | If I was left to it the first pint would go about |
| 9 | I got right into it the first couple of series . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Is it the first verse of ‘ Three Blind Mice ’ or ‘ Mary , Mary Quite Contrary ’ or ‘ Jack and Jill ’ ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | From time to time a little breeze , trapped in the courtyard , eddied and gusted in their direction , bringing with it the first hint of the sweet smell of decay . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 18 | And that 's because the third world is bigger than any other section whether you call it the first world or second world or whatever , and I think the first and second put together . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The dog is commanded to sit and if he does n't do it the first time , he is pushed gently into position . |
| 21 | Nor is it the first time that Rupert 's good name has been besmirched . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Round and round , and back again , everything spins around , passing by if you missed it the first time . |
| 26 | Is it the first time , for instance , you have been told you only enter into relationships for what you can get out of them ? |
| 27 | He really did n't like it the first time we played it , so he tried spoiling it . |
| 28 | I I th I thought I thought it was I S actually from the way you said it the first time , but that was just a guess . |
| 29 | I did n't think much of it the first time . |
| 30 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |