Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , a tired reminder of arrangements made sufficiently confusing by the first notice . |
| 2 | But although Gloucester was thus becoming politically visible for the first time , he was as yet of only limited importance . |
| 3 | But although Gloucester was thus becoming politically visible for the first time , he was as yet of only limited importance . |
| 4 | This double characterisation was made more hilarious at the first performances when the bossy one was danced by Helpmann , and later the taller MacMillan , with wonderfully extended développés , and the shyer one by Ashton with dainty attempts to be correct at all costs . |
| 5 | The warmth and elegance of Davis 's style was made immediately apparent in the first movement of the Ireland Sonata No. 1 , with its engagingly lyrical main tune which almost sits up and begs to be liked . |
| 6 | It was built around 1100 by the first Earl of Northampton to commemorate his safe return from the Crusades . |
| 7 | The shape of a storage pot , for example , does not remain static — as copies are made , tiny errors inadvertently change its shape — so that after many such consecutive copies , the pot 's shape may appear significantly different from the first one . |
| 8 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 9 | Although it appears that sentencing became more severe during the first three years the guide-lines were in use , Minnesota remains one of the very few states that has avoided huge increases in prison population size ( Parent 1988 ) . |
| 10 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 11 | Patsy was a sickly child , growing very little in the first few years of his life . |
| 12 | I remember clearly one of the first times I gave a word of knowledge . |
| 13 | When the French batted they could muster only 78 in the first innings . |
| 14 | The latter course kept the family together , a consideration which became increasingly important during the first half of the twentieth century , but which was believed to be open to abuse unless the state assumed the role of the male breadwinner and insisted on good household management and sexual fidelity . |
| 15 | They became increasingly sleepy for the first four days until it became almost impossible for the experimenters to keep them awake . |
| 16 | It will be seen that this falls somewhat short of the first resort approach , which the brief does not directly address . |
| 17 | And all that let me tell you after Pisa looked so dangerous in the first eight minutes , clearly they 'd come out looking for the early goal themselves , and who was badly fouled by in the early stages and needed attention , he 's the number eight , and the number eleven , who looks as quick as any player I 've seen in ages and ages , they are the two danger men and they will need some marking . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , they did not all take their studies very seriously and some of the bruising battle scenes , including a duel that went disastrously wrong on the first night , attracted misplaced laughter . |
| 19 | As a result , I drank more than was sensible in my condition : like a lot of women , I always felt more unwell during the first three months of pregnancy than afterwards , and alcohol went to my head very quickly . |
| 20 | Alpine days stay reasonably warm for the first half of the month . |
| 21 | She felt triumphantly free for the first time in her life . |
| 22 | Ah well , her parents were old now , and retired , and nobody thought them funny any more : indeed , it was only the intensely conventional world of a Yorkshire boarding-school that had made them seem so eccentric in the first place . |
| 23 | On fairly conservative criteria this parliamentary force numbered perhaps thirty-five in the first half of the 1790s , twenty in 1806 and between thirty-five and sixty in the parliaments from 1812 to 1831 , dropping to about thirty in the reformed parliament of 1832 . |
| 24 | The disease is rare in Japan but begins to become more common in the first generation born in the United States , and approximates the rate prevailing in the US by the second generation . |
| 25 | A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England . |
| 26 | Alexander extended Russia 's borders further west than ever and they remained essentially unchanged until the First World War . |
| 27 | ‘ The pitch has held together reasonably well and the conditions have not changed that much from the first day . |