Example sentences of "[Wh adv] the first " in BNC.
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1 | According to the respondents all the disputes were resolved by an oral agreement which was concluded on 6 May 1988 whereby the first two respondents agreed to pay $100,000 to the petitioner and $50,000 to Omnicorp and it was agreed by all parties that the legal proceedings and threatened litigation with regard to all matters in dispute would be abandoned . |
2 | But the methodology of modern laboratory science and of modern industry , whereby the first step in analysis always consists of breaking down continuous unity into innumerable separated discontinuities , certainly goes too far . |
3 | I remember his telling us how the first time he encountered stress incontinence was as a young boy standing at the foot of the ladder while a little old country woman handed him down apples from the tree . |
4 | Notice how the first step of looking through the window is less threatening than the second one of opening the door . |
5 | It is not clear what happened next , and there is some dispute about how the first amphibians actually breathed . |
6 | When you land on the icescape you can imagine how the first men on the moon felt . |
7 | A picture in TODAY revealed how the first truck ran straight over Adam 's Renault 25 , crushing the roof like a cardboard box . |
8 | After the therapist has introduced him/herself , explaining something about their profession , and the actual referral process , they might continue by explaining how the first session will proceed . |
9 | Another interesting mid-price reissue comes from Sony Classical and features the late Leonard Bernstein , not only performing Beethoven 's Fifth Symphony with the New York Philharmonic , but also talking about how the first movement evolved from the composer 's sketches . |
10 | THERE TO STAY : HOW THE FIRST WOMEN ENTERED THE EDINBURGH CASE ROOMS |
11 | He had obviously been waiting to see how the first got on . |
12 | How the first Kit Everard won the love of an islander and how she saved him and his brave band of pioneers . |
13 | We can see also how the first sentence has a second phrase using syncopation , which is a distinct change from the first phrase . |
14 | Note too how the first sentence rests on D ( part of the dominant chord ) , thus inviting continuation , while the second ends on C , confirming finality . |
15 | but gradually the knitting craft , the guilds and the productition pro production from these cottage crafts began to die down because these machines are , anyway that 's the history of it , that 's how the first machines came to light . |
16 | That was how the first New Internationalist editorial began , back in March 1973 , calling for a second front in rich countries that would help the people of the Third World in their war on poverty . |
17 | That , more or less , is how the First Spiritualist Church experienced its last and greatest schism . |
18 | The first paragraph , for example , comes from p. 10 and the second from p. 13 ; and all the connections Leech and Short make between these pages have been lost , with the result that it is not clear how the first paragraph leads to the second paragraph . |
19 | The final score and here 's how the first division stands now . |
20 | That was where the first pill-box was . |
21 | The fighting cast a long shadow over the UN peace-keeping operation in Croatia , where the first infantry units arrived over the weekend . |
22 | Over the last few months , those who have paid up have been given the VIP treatment at JaguarSport 's purpose-built factory at Bloxham , near Banbury , where the first production XJ220s are now under construction . |
23 | Along intermediate axes where the first layer interatomic spacings are longer , incident trajectories can make more direct collisions , resulting in off-specular scattering . |
24 | In any case , whatever machines are at my disposal , the simple movable table on which I am leaning in the photograph will still be where the first hand-written draft is composed . |
25 | In Cuba , where the first line was opened as early as 1837 , there were two main systems , British-owned in the west and American-owned in the east , by the end of the century . |
26 | A number of these countries are those where the first stages of industrialisation — the establishment of heavy industry and low cost manufacturing of relatively low added value products — are well underway and a firm base of markets within the industrialised world has been established . |
27 | Tonight we camped at the site where the first Smith and Miranda expedition ended . |
28 | ‘ Oh , that was where the first magic encounter took place , was it ? |
29 | This is where the first problems may occur . |
30 | So the second attitude can flourish only in a climate where the first is general . |