Example sentences of "[prep] these first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has become usual practice for record companies to advance bands some money to underwrite the costs of these first tours . |
| 2 | At the time of going to press the arrangements for the consecration of these first black bishops of modern times are not yet complete , but it is rumoured that the Holy Father has expressed the wish to elevate all three distinguished sons of Africa to the plenitude of the priesthood with his own hands . |
| 3 | However , if we neglect to make use of these first three days of a foal 's life in this way , we are likely to find that the foal becomes suspicious of us . |
| 4 | Remains of these first Italians , people who arrived over the land bridge from Africa ( as did the exotic animals ) have been found not only in the south , but also on the Lombardy Plain , near Verona . |
| 5 | The most primitive of these first threads is the umbilical cord which binds mother to child . |
| 6 | According to SQL Access Group chairman Jeff Balboni , the organisation is aware of the discontentment and hopes to soothe disappointment with the publication of these first few specifications . |
| 7 | The height of these first forests must have caused considerable problems for the animal inhabitants . |
| 8 | Moreover the total percentage of these first three groups in the most recent period is 76.8 , which is higher than the overall percentage . |
| 9 | Many of these first algae of the season are released from ice floes ; as the pack ice melts , initially at its northern edge and later across its whole width , diatoms and other algal cells that have been trapped in its interstices are liberated into the sea and soon begin to divide rapidly . |
| 10 | With the success of these first Championships , the organisers are hoping Blackbird Leys will become an annual event . |
| 11 | Yeah , but you 've got to buy two of these first |
| 12 | I just wan na catch one of these first |
| 13 | In between these first ventures into showbusiness , the young hopeful was performing in a different way for audiences on the streets of South London , where he gained a reputation as the ‘ best egg-seller in Brixton ’ . |
| 14 | During these first scuffles the blue civil rights banner was seized and ripped by the police . |
| 15 | During these first years of operation , progress towards some of the economic goals continued to be satisfactory . |
| 16 | During these first two weeks the sufferer makes an appraisal of his or her previous life and use of addictive substance or behaviour . |
| 17 | receive God 's call Come on go through these first and then we 'll do them af I 'll let you do the word search . |
| 18 | I have got back on the adrenalin and enthusiasm for these first few matches and hopefully in the next six weeks you will see the best of me . ’ |
| 19 | The estimates for these first three pictures ( Canaletto and Rembrandt , upwards of £5 million , Holbein upwards of £15 million ) leave all the other pictures in the sale far behind . |
| 20 | Throughout these first months it appears that Jaruzelski supported First Secretary Kania 's efforts to achieve a political solution . |
| 21 | We deal with these first . |
| 22 | Having looked at the broader canvas of mission in these first two chapters , we now focus our attention without apology on the need for ‘ church growth ’ . |
| 23 | In these first few years of NME , the paper 's style recalls nothing so much as a Pathé newsreel crossed with Harry Enfield 's Mr Cholmondoley-Warner character ; stuffy , uncontentious and groaning under the weight of its own deference to the celebrities . |
| 24 | The teaching ruwang , then , in these first ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ teaches the value of mastery over the emotions . |
| 25 | This was grievous enough , but there was worse : the confidence and coherence of the Austrian Army had been broken in these first weeks of the war , and it was never again to comprise an efficient military weapon . |
| 26 | A description of their origins and fate will have to wait until we have followed the development of the invertebrates to its climax , but their presence at this stage must be mentioned if the scene in these first jungles is not to be misrepresented . |
| 27 | In the kouros this development takes the form of ever more accurate rendering of observed natural forms , always controlled by a strong feeling for pattern ; but the idea is hardly yet present in these first efforts . |
| 28 | Xanthe looked out of the taxi windows at the throng swinging down the pavement , the broad plane leaves shifting and the jackets still unfastened , panels loose , in these first mild days of autumn . |
| 29 | More probably he had not yet composed much beyond the opening of the movement ; accordingly , after writing in these first few bars , he left space for the remainder of the movement to be inserted once it was finished , and another copyist took up the task of fair-copying subsequent movements which Purcell had already drafted . |
| 30 | ‘ How do we feel now ’ , asked Peter Stansill in It , ‘ in these first strange cold days of our next winter , having just had our minds raped by rationality ? … |