Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards to wear clerical clothes for the first time , and instantly to be expected to be a confidant or soul 's friend , was to many ordinands the more heartfelt turning-point . |
| 2 | There was no dramatic increase in the total volume of shipping using British ports over the first half of the eighteenth century , but there was a relative shift away from London to provincial ports . |
| 3 | So when [ named defendant ] , 41 , made sexual overtures for the first time during their five-year friendship she went to a neighbour and cried rape . |
| 4 | The seventh five-year plan just ended may have had its ups and downs , producing high growth in the first half of the plan 's period , followed by inflation and then austerity in the second half , but overall it was a success : the economy grew by 7.5% a year , incomes for city-dwellers almost doubled and last year 's grain harvest was the biggest ever . |
| 5 | However , research into this area of hydrocarbon generation was given fresh impetus by the first ‘ energy crisis ’ in 1973 which saw gas assume a more important role as a primary energy source . |
| 6 | The Prophet sprinted from the alley exit scant seconds before the first of the police cars roared out of the fog and screeched to a halt at the dark gap he had just left . |
| 7 | Eunice 's false understanding of the situation adds light humour to the first scenes although we realise that Blanche is trying to already make herself out as someone better than everyone else in the play . |
| 8 | Expect cautious underspending in the first six months while trends are analysed ; |
| 9 | Students from hot countries should include an additional amount to cover the costs of purchasing warm clothing in the first year of their studies . |
| 10 | Students from hot countries should include an additional amount to cover the costs of purchasing warm clothing in the first year of their studies . |
| 11 | The interim p&l account , balance sheet and cash flow statement therefore do not include comparative figures for the first half of 1991 ; the full year 1991 figures are shown , however . |
| 12 | There would again be an increase in the ability of a elements to overshadow c elements , but in addition the reduction of the number of c elements activated by A would mean that relatively few of them would be capable of acquiring associative strength in the first place . |
| 13 | The success of the expert system trial at the MU was in part due to the subject chosen , which involved an automatic test equipment that used logical testing in the first place . |
| 14 | ‘ Because my mother works in a hotel shop where they do n't really go a bundle on employing married women in the first place , so I do n't want to get her all into a fluster for nothing . |
| 15 | But what undermined him in office , and made him worth hearing out of it , was his surprise at becoming Prime Minister in the first place — Rab Butler shared that — so that , he agreed , he never quite suppressed a sense of the absurdity of his position . |
| 16 | Quality standards and Rule 15 place great emphasis on the first letter to the client . |
| 17 | Phillips continued to progress in the service , rising to a grade of surveying general examiner of the first class in 1853 . |
| 18 | With an unbroken horse you might try reining back in hand , while a mature horse might be asked to try half- pass for the first time . |
| 19 | But my grandfather on my mother ; s side and my grandmother too both won military awards in the first war for bravery , so the oral traditions of both wars were always with us . |
| 20 | Gloucestershire have enjoyed mixed fortunes in the first day of their County Championship match against Northamptonshire . |
| 21 | The decision to proceed alone is based on the success of the prototype 's flight test programme and strong customer interest , says Pilatus , which holds paid options on the first 27 aircraft and is now accepting only firm orders for the $1.8 million PC-12 , with performance and delivery schedule guarantees . |
| 22 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 23 | Although they continued throughout to support Mrs Thatcher , a number were known privately to have expressed the belief that a failure to secure outright victory on the first ballot might irretrievably damage her authority and force her to stand down . |
| 24 | The Commission adopted interim measures for the first time in June 1991 in respect of aids granted to the French betting monopoly in the case referred to in the case study on pp. 238 — 43 . |
| 25 | Laws without strong enforcement are words without deeds , and the tragic truth is that courts in both England and the United States have displayed a general unwillingness to mete out harsh punishment to those found guilty of cruelty to animals and an even greater reluctance to render guilty verdicts in the first place . |
| 26 | The winter of 1962/63 caused marked fluctuations in the first period . |
| 27 | There is no small irony in this , as applications to purchase foreign technology in the first place will only be approved if the relevant Soviet machine building ministry can not produce something of the appropriate standard and quantity in the time required . |
| 28 | The movement into private care has been accentuated by tight control of local authority expenditure at a time when numbers of people have been ‘ deinstitutionalised ’ from psychiatric and psycho-geriatric units , and when people from an ageing population have been seeking residential care for the first time . |
| 29 | She noticed outside lavatories on the first landing — thank goodness she did n't have to put up with that . |
| 30 | They began to regain lost ground in the first years of muhammad Reza 's reign , were probably involved in his attempt assassination in 1949 , succeeded in killing the prime minister in 1951 , and initially allied themselves with Dr Mossadeq 's campaign to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company . |