Example sentences of "about the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | An anonymous reviewer of the book in the Times Literary Supplement declared : ‘ If a student of British politics were to demand some precepts to guide his researches , the compiler would have little difficulty about the first and most significant maxim in the creed . |
| 2 | If a girl is lucky and her parents are alive , she goes to her mother 's house for the last few months of her pregnancy and about the first three months of the baby 's life . |
| 3 | The Lewisian thing about the first of his space stories is precisely its blend of literary originality and religious truth ; it is not ‘ theology ’ dressed up as ‘ literature ’ ; rather it makes its best literary effects when it is at its most religious because the religious matter is what most engages the author 's imagination . |
| 4 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
| 5 | At the bottom of page one , there was a story about the first American lost in the war : Lieutenant-Commander Michael Scott Speicher . |
| 6 | ‘ And what about the first time ? |
| 7 | He was the gay romantic lead in Torch Song Trilogy and he played a naive straight-laced young officer hopelessly out of his depth in Glory , the well-intentioned but over-sentimental drama about the first black regiment to fight in the American Civil War . |
| 8 | Anyone who has not seen Karajan 's Berliners in full cry — the CD videos will rectify this omission in the fullness of time — can at least catch something of the wonder of the spectacle in the piece Neville Cardus wrote about the first of the 1961 Beethoven concerts in London . |
| 9 | I heard about the first one pretty soon , the next night in fact , because everyone I knew was talking about the arrival of the new beauty . |
| 10 | Harrington 's fortunes rose steeply for about the first 150 generations . |
| 11 | It is certainly not due to anything laid down in the egg or due to anything special about the first two divisions . |
| 12 | There is something small and pitiable and mean-spirited about the first ; but the second is a universal spirit whose love is noble and all-enveloping . |
| 13 | There is a measure of dubiety ( I like to use American ambassadorial language on the appropriate occasion ) about the first word , ‘ It 's ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ They talked about the first of May , ’ he said . |
| 15 | What we normally do is get together with the rhythm section for about the first week or so — and it 's just heaven because you 're just a small band . |
| 16 | Defence Secretary Dick Cheney was so cock-a-hoop about the first day in Somalia he started talking about the pull-out . |
| 17 | Choose a factor 8–10 for about the first five days , but be guided by sun intensity and location . |
| 18 | Quote of the Buxton Conference came from American Paul Piana , whose audio-visual about the first free ascent of the Salathe Wall on El Cap proved to be a masterpiece of comedy . |
| 19 | What will they say about the first £5 million player ? ’ |
| 20 | As I walked to the hotel one of the Turkish rafters rushed towards me with a copy of Turkey 's most popular article about the first day of the trip with a picture of my good self and another British journalist , both wrapped in blankets looking forlorn . |
| 21 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 22 | If two neutral events of the same class are used , the second one interferes with learning about the first . |
| 23 | As a consequence , very little is known about the first thousand years of Imperial history . |
| 24 | Leeds youth justice manager Anne Oliver , who is also chairperson of the Association of Youth Justice , says she has been getting mixed messages about the first seven months of the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 25 | I 'd like you to tell me about the first time you were really aware of these symptoms , then the worst episode you can remember , and then the last … . |
| 26 | The centrepiece of this sale of Antiquities is a Graeco-Roman bronze statuette of Harpocrates dating from about the first century BC , which is estimated to go for £150–200,000 ( $270–360,000 ) . |
| 27 | I should have complained about the first case , but I was inexperienced then . |
| 28 | But it 's reminded me of one of my father 's books about the First World War , in which the author writes about the demise of a certain kind of army and a certain kind of warfare : cavalries organised in elegant formation for the war of movement . |
| 29 | Now take it sentence by sentence , what about the first one ? |
| 30 | Yeah we bought a new bedroom suite I think that 's about the first thing |