Example sentences of "first [noun] [is] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first worry is that proving that your contract has been broken may not be easy , particularly if you are complaining about the breach of an unwritten and rather vague term . |
| 2 | The first response is that it does n't matter very much . |
| 3 | The first hypothesis is that employers are familiar with single stream research work , and in recruitment decisions , are acting conservatively . |
| 4 | The first hypothesis is that the public sector is highly efficient in producing electricity and is able to realise the economies of large scale production . |
| 5 | The first hypothesis is that , in the absence of any controls ( such as slope , lithology or structure ) , a stream pattern will develop randomly and will be described by the random-walk model . |
| 6 | Loving , ( Ian Christie wrote about this in the Daily Express , ‘ The only difference between this , the twentieth film in the ribald comedy series and the first instalment is that the key members of the cast are just that much older . ’ ) . |
| 7 | Often the first change is that the patient begins to feel better in himself but still has all the symptoms . |
| 8 | ‘ The first criterion is that you have to be big : once you 're big there is something to work on and mobility , strength , athleticism , agility , determination and not least pride can be developed . |
| 9 | Our first rule is that all raw materials must be from a known and identifiable source . |
| 10 | Her first crime is that she has n't clocked into an office for 16 years . |
| 11 | The first result is that complementary assets should be owned by a single firm . |
| 12 | Mr. Browne 's first contention is that the P.C.A. documents in the present case fall into essentially the same category as those in Peach 's case [ 1986 ] Q.B . |
| 13 | ( 1 ) In all the circumstances is it more appropriate that a court of the country to which a child has been wrongfully removed or in which it is being wrongfully retained ( country B ) ’ — in this case one can say England — ‘ should reach decisions and make orders with a view to its welfare or is it more appropriate that this should be done by a court of the country from which it was removed or to which its return has been wrongfully prevented ( [ Australia ] ) ? ( 2 ) If , but only if , the answer to the first question is that the court of [ England ] is the more appropriate court , should that court give any consideration whatsoever to what further orders should be made other than for the immediate return of the child to [ Australia ] and for ensuring its welfare pending the resumption or assumption of jurisdiction by the courts of that country ? |
| 14 | So , the first requirement is that older workers should be included in the drive for a more skilled workforce . |
| 15 | The first point is that both ministers and officials involved in the review stress the lack of drama , tantrum-throwing and brinkmanship . |
| 16 | The first point is that it is generally recognized that ritual tends to increase , intensify and shift in focus at times of social crisis . |
| 17 | The first point is that , of the five people generally named in any discussion of the generation gap theory , four are Free Presbyterians , which is a similar concentration to that found in the first generation of Paisley activists . |
| 18 | The first point is that the user , if he or she uses the guide at all , probably finds the task of wading through a long , unindexed guide to find some specific piece of information somewhat tedious . |
| 19 | The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense . |
| 20 | Larrain 's first point is that Marx approaches the concept of ideology on the basis of the contradictory character of social reality ‘ which is brought about by the restricted productive forces and the division of labour ’ ( Larrain 1979 : 45 ) . |
| 21 | The first point is that educating through a language which is not the parents ' own , does not produce a deviant development . |
| 22 | The first point is that the operation is not of overall benefit to the patient — for example , the risk of death during the operation outweighs the likely benefit of the operation for the patient . |
| 23 | The first point is that it is not only the super-ego which is internalized — that is , taken over by identification from cathected social objects — but that there are involved other important components which presumably must be included in the ego — namely , the system of cognitive categorizations of the object world and the system of expressive symbolism . |
| 24 | The first point is that Ramsey pricing has advantages both in terms of static efficiency and also arguably in terms of equity over cost-based pricing . |
| 25 | The first point is that you ca n't make a meaningful choice of subjects without adequate information . |
| 26 | As regards the appropriation of funds for the purposes of planned provision , a first point is that the financial institutions could be short-circuited to some extent by increasing taxation of the wealthy . |
| 27 | The answer to his first point is that it is absolutely clear that a number of people who break their bail conditions are remanded in custody when they are brought back to the court ; but that happens in only about six out of 10 cases , and in four out of 10 cases when those who break their bail conditions are brought back to the court , it seems that they are no longer remanded in custody but are again let out on bail . |
| 28 | My first point is that , although the three developmental stages , oral-anal-phallic , are universal , they are not of the same universal significance in all societies . |
| 29 | I think my first point is that the answer to your question depends to some extent on what population what demographic forecasts prove to be most likely . |
| 30 | Luckily this has n't hurt my fish , but the reason for the purchase in the first place is that I plan to set up a marine tank in the near future and I wanted to check my local tapwater . |