Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | MR GIBBON points out ( HAS January 13 ) that the test question ( Echo January 7 ) for 14-year-olds shows the man has already stepped onto the first stair and begins to fall into the trap of talking about the man , when the question asks about the load ! |
| 2 | But there was an element of luck in yesterday 's performances because the British crews decided to defy political reality by going hard left on the first beat and were pleasantly rewarded by a massive windshift in their favour . |
| 3 | And perhaps this is just as well , for were it not so , and were we to believe that personality became irreversibly set in the first two ( or three , or five ) years of life we should have to believe , first , that any child harmed then was beyond help and thus clinically not worth bothering about ; and , second , that children in later years were not vulnerable and that experience then was of no consequence . |
| 4 | How , I wondered , had the woodlands become so neglected in the first place ? |
| 5 | Wednesday had David Hirst sent off in their 3–1 UEFA Cup reverse in Kaiserslautern a fortnight ago and manager Trevor Francis said : ‘ We felt unjustly treated after the first game , but tonight it was very fair and they deserved to go through . |
| 6 | When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones . |
| 7 | He had already scored in the first meeting at Roker Park . |
| 8 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 9 | Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea , two small clumps of trees , one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint , marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey ; and , far back on the inland level , a larger and loftier mass , the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda , was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon ( 4 ) . |
| 10 | When therefore I perceived that there were three species of liberty which are essential to the happiness of social life , religious , domestic and civil , and as I 've already written concerning the first , and the magistrates were strenuously active in obtaining the third , I determined to turn my attention to the second , or the domestic species . |
| 11 | Only Sidey had ever played in the first team . |
| 12 | It is simply due to the fact that the diffused , little defined , fitfully manifested and sometimes sub-personal presence of God as Spirit which we found in the Old Testament , becomes clearly focused for the first time in Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 13 | The only consolation was that Newcastle and Sheffield Wednesday , whom he had predicted would still be in the Cup along with Arsenal , had also fallen at the first hurdle to lesser teams . |
| 14 | They had nearly arrived at the first of the longhouses scattered over the hillside , belonging to the families who stayed in Orphir all the year round and cared for the land and the hall on behalf of the Earl . |
| 15 | Charles had completely forgotten about the first entrance of McWhirter . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've never got beyond the first two or three rounds . ’ |
| 17 | It was feeling a deep ache of loss for something she had never had in the first place . |
| 18 | The Brichardi have just bred for the first time and have a healthy brood of 20 or so fry . |
| 19 | We have also shown for the first time such treatment also decreases basal gastric acid secretion significantly . |
| 20 | I have partly dealt with the first argument . |
| 21 | The ‘ germ ’ of this story , I think , is the idea ( I do not know who first expressed it ) that couples of servants who apply for situations as man and wife have often met for the first time in the registry office . |
| 22 | I hope that the reader will feel that I have satisfactorily dealt with the first . |