Example sentences of "is [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The critical time for an adverse effect on language development is during the first three years of life ( Sak and Ruben 1981 ; Zinkus et al . |
| 2 | It is during the first few months in particular that these sorts of activities can affect the developing foetus , producing babies that may be premature , and with a low birth weight . |
| 3 | The survival curve for the study shows that the highest mortality is during the first four years after diagnosis . |
| 4 | He served for three years , originally as chairman , and it is as the first chairman of the future Labour party that he achieved his principal prominence in labour history . |
| 5 | Natural water from two 300ft boreholes beneath Huddersfield , West Yorkshire , is for the first time to be bottled , and sold to France . |
| 6 | Your brain is for the first time having to struggle and strive and keep really busy , which is great . |
| 7 | The offence is for the first time triable either way , and is punishable on indictment with either three years ’ imprisonment or a fine and summarily with six months imprisonment and a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum . |
| 8 | The UK government is for the first time to publish environmental conditions attached to the granting of oil drilling licenses . |
| 9 | It is after the first few years in employment that the profiles diverge dramatically and again the male/female contrast is vivid . |
| 10 | The nave is of the first quarter of the 17C and the altars are of the 1670s . |
| 11 | The overall picture is of the first generation harbouring little interest in sport , apart from horse racing ! |
| 12 | While none of these pictures is of the first rank , some are of interest : Paris Bordone 's ‘ A Courtesan ’ ; Pietro Marescalchi 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned , with Saints James the Greater and Prosdocimus ’ of 1564 and Michele Giambono 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned ’ . |
| 13 | The work of the Hague Conference on Private International Law is of the first importance in this area . |
| 14 | ‘ Whatever you see never exists simply and solely by itself , as an isolated sign or symbol , but by playing its part within a context in which relatedness as such is of the first importance ’ . |
| 15 | It has to be said that the user interface to DW1.2 is of the first order . |
| 16 | This advance is of the first importance to the population of the People 's Republic of China , and an agreement is being entered into between the Rank Xerox Unit and the Demography Institute of the University of Peking in Beijing . |
| 17 | Secondly , an individual needs to undergo toilet-training not merely because of the demands of common decency and modern personal hygiene , but , much more importantly , because we live in a culture in which an ability to control sadistic drives is of the first importance , both for the quality of our civilization and for the acquisition and protection of our cultural wealth in general . |
| 18 | Its lessening and perhaps even virtual disappearance in some cases as a culturally-marked developmental period is of the first importance and is one of the most disquieting symptoms of modern social change . |
| 19 | This information is of the first importance . |
| 20 | The evaluation reported here is of the first versions of the lexical access component ( LA ) and of the project 's acoustic-phonetic front-end ( SEGLAB ) . |
| 21 | His company decimated by murderous shell-fire even before reaching the objective , Jubert found himself alone , possibly the only surviving officer , and sent off a message to his battalion commander : ‘ I do not know where I am , but the position is of the first importance , and I have only ten men to hold it . ’ |
| 22 | But it is like the first scenario in this : both kinds of eroticism are specific to male bonding , both occur within and against the very situations in which heterosexuality is most ardently pursued , and both are in part the consequence of heterosexual ardour . |
| 23 | The concern here is with the first of these points . |
| 24 | Our concern essentially is with the first of these possibilities , the case of natural monopoly — no competition is possible . |
| 25 | The entry is from the first floor . |
| 26 | The entrance to the gallery is from the first floor . |
| 27 | Callinicos ' defence of classical Marxism , of historical materialism , is in the first instance deployed against a postmodernism which has come to proclaim the death of the grand narrative of emancipation and the need for a new form of politics not constructed along the lines of the traditional left . |
| 28 | ‘ The Association is not a universal provider … its mission … is in the first place to the educationally underprivileged … it must include a substantial body of work sufficiently intensive and prolonged to exercise a permanent influence on students . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ My office is in the first sleeping car aft of the central dining car . ’ |
| 30 | The idea that femininity is in the first place to be associated with motherhood is simply writ large . |