Example sentences of "first [is] that there " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that there is no need to follow slavishly the whole procedure for each offence . |
| 2 | The first is that there are no Alps like the Swiss Alps . |
| 3 | The first is that there is in the developed world a new culture of environmental awareness . |
| 4 | The first is that there can not be a ‘ gene for altruistic behaviour ’ , because such behaviour would require the action of genes at many loci , and also a host of environmental preconditions ; behaviour is a product of the whole organism , not of a single gene . |
| 5 | The first is that there was a concept of what constituted a trust wording . |
| 6 | The first is that there still exists a widespread misunderstanding about the nature and purpose of evaluation . |
| 7 | The first is that there are very many far more important questions , even if this is an interesting one . |
| 8 | The first is that there is less room in which to work , and the second that the boomy quality of many interiors can make the recording of clear sound difficult . |
| 9 | The first is that there are serious impediments to ensuring that full and accurate records accompany each child at the point of transfer and that the secondary schools make full use of them when the primary teachers undertake their part . |
| 10 | The first is that there is rather little reason to associate the coercive pressure of a dominant or majority current of opinion or belief with democracy . |
| 11 | The first is that there are no systematic entailments between sentences differing only in respect of compatibles in parallel syntactic positions . |
| 12 | The first is that there may well be disagreement as to whether , on analytical grounds , a question should be deemed to be one of law or fact . |
| 13 | The reason for choosing the last phrase first is that there is less likelihood of the intonation being distorted . |
| 14 | The first is that there is no end of word mark in stenotography , hence all of the phonemes run together . |
| 15 | The first is that there is a widespread notion that a full explanation and understanding of human behaviour needs the contribution of all the various disciplines . |
| 16 | The first is that there is a clear tendency for adverbal adjectives to outrank predicate qualifiers in grammaticality when moved next to the verb and in front of the object . |
| 17 | The first is that there was a significant correlation between the legal form of land-holding and the form and extent of commercial development of the land . |