Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Parents who do n't want their kids taught about homosexuality in the first grade are not bigots . |
| 2 | Eight properties have been completed as part of the first renovation phase . |
| 3 | On the other hand , foreign languages were clearly expected to be taught for communication in the first place . |
| 4 | These days the Glaswegian goes for consistency in the first ten places while riding as an understudy to a leader like LeMond . |
| 5 | The stories each picture told varied from the tragic to the hilarious : The expensive oil landscape which had had seagulls drawn on to the sky in ballpoint pen ; the ancient Highland cattle picture , swopped for food after the First World War by a travelling artist . |
| 6 | Stone recurrence after extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy is expected to be similar and has been reported as 9% in the first year . |
| 7 | On the contrary , we now know a great deal about Jesus 's milieu , and far more than most practising Christians realise about Palestine in the first century — its sociology , its economy , its politics , its cultural and religious character , its historical actuality . |
| 8 | Under a new law , proposed during the fifth session of the eighth National Assembly ( which convened in Hanoi on June 20-30 , 1989 ) , non-CPV members were allowed to stand as candidates for the first time . |
| 9 | Wilcox looked startled , caught off balance for the first time . |
| 10 | If we go back to the education example , and suppose that the first vote is between L and M , then if the rich vote sincerely L wins , and in the second round H defeats L. On the other hand , if the rich had voted for M in the first round , then M would have gone on to win in the second round . |
| 11 | For instance , in the second clause of the following sentence both the verb scored and the noun goals have been ellipted , yet are presupposed through reference to the first clause : Returning to the text , it is clear that " the other five " is only meaningful through reference to sentences ( e ) and ( i ) , thus developing strong anaphoric links between this particular group of sentences . |
| 12 | As Smith commented , it is incomprehensible that Moorcroft does not appear to have been considered for appointment as the first Professor of the London College . |
| 13 | It was included as part of the first of the twice-annual Eurobarometer surveys . |
| 14 | Prime Minister Mouloud Hamrouche , who was to stand for election for the first time , said that the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) might consider entering into a coalition with one of the secular opposition parties , either before or after the election . |
| 15 | According to the Home Office statistics the number of people applying for asylum in the first quarter of 1992 more than halved , from 3730 a month last year to 1730 a month this year . |
| 16 | THE QUESTION of just who would even want to be a partner with the US was underlined last night as the American Administration headed for default for the first time in its history . |
| 17 | " Then there 's the smear of what looks like vomit on the first basin in the men 's washroom . |
| 18 | 7.7.9.2 To pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest ( where the Landlord has rebuilt and reinstated the Premises out of its own money ) the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply and clause 7.7.9 should contain the following amendment : … anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority while under the Tenant 's control and in the employment of the Tenant wholly or partially irrecoverable … 7.8 Increase or decrease of the Centre If at any time during the Term the Centre shall be increased or decreased on a permanent basis the Insurance Rent Percentage shall be varied with effect from the first premium or additional premium payable in respect of a period after such a change by agreement between the parties or in default of agreement within [ 3 ] months of the first proposal for variation made by the Landlord in such a manner as shall be determined to be fair and reasonable in the light of the event in question by the Surveyor acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator This requires no comment . |
| 19 | I would quibble with details in the first movement , but the savage second movement is unsurpassed in its combined ferocity and thrust , the third moves from creeping malevolence to a spinetingling summoning-up of ghosts , and the finale rushes lemming-like to its conclusion , making a nonsense of the average insert-note description . |
| 20 | How could they have come into existence in the first place without malicious midwives ? |
| 21 | Something like it is well-nigh inevitable , once the fundamental ingredients of cumulative selection — replication , error and power — have come into existence in the first place . |
| 22 | Freedom of movement for individuals will be one of the cornerstones of the new Europe , enshrined in the single Europe act , due to come into effect on the first of January 1993 . |
| 23 | Ernst Richter was the latest recruit from the academy , having arrived the previous day , and he had been assigned to work with Mauer for the first month so that his temperament and personality could be assessed to ensure that later on he would be paired with the right partner . |
| 24 | ‘ An order under section 6(2) requiring the third , fourth and fifth defendants to pay such sum as the court thinks fit to the plaintiffs or alternatively into court or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 30 or , alternatively , to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 31 in such manner as the court may direct for the purpose of restoring persons who entered into transactions with the first defendant in the course of contravention of section 3 by the first defendant to the position in which they were before the transactions were entered into . |
| 25 | IT IS not irrational for a jury to decide that the first of two co-accused acted in concert with the second but that the second co-accused did not act in concert with the first , because the case against each accused must be considered separately and there may be evidence which is admissible against one but not the other . |
| 26 | The public 's political knowledge appears to have increased ; the number of respondents who were able to name their own MP correctly rose from 34% in the first survey to 43% in the last . |
| 27 | I had to promise mum I 'd write to each of them , and apologise in person at the first possible opportunity , and also that I 'd stop off at Lochgair before I returned to Glasgow , to see dad . |
| 28 | Ukrainian and Western researchers now believe that the fire at the plant was not extinguished by material dropped from helicopters within the first 10 days after the accident , as originally claimed , but simply burned itself out . |
| 29 | Later on in the morning , a class of 15 and 16 year olds is painting in oils for the first time . |
| 30 | ( Hey recorded as Key , for instance ) or by the choice of alternative Christian names ( e.g. the second one used in preference to the first ) or by evasion of the system before penalties were introduced in 1875 . |