Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects . |
| 2 | However , Soviet trade with the West expanded rapidly in the first half of 1989 , showing a 9 per cent growth in volume , while imports grew by about 11 per cent . |
| 3 | Plans agreed on by the first meeting included a shopping trip to Holland to visit a shop which sells outsize jeans and sweat-shirts and another to Germany to a shop which claims to sell the biggest size shoes in the world . |
| 4 | Seymour committed suicide on 20 Apr. 1836 ; his illustrations appear only in the first two parts of PP ( Apr. , May 1836 ) . |
| 5 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 6 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ A few notes spaced out like the first stars that penetrate the sky at sunset ’ , as Tovey describes the miraculous midway section . |
| 8 | This example of evaluation is related to the parameters laid down in the first part of the chapter . |
| 9 | Although officials remain resolutely silent , there is a widespread belief that the British Government will authorise the colony 's administration to go ahead with the first batch of mandatory repatriations this week . |
| 10 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 11 | Michael Ramsey qualified only under the first of those epithets . |
| 12 | Skipper Chris Dickson feathered the mainsail up the first weather leg so that navigator Erle could jury rig a new mainsheet arrangement before the load came back on the boom as the boat bore away around the first mark . |
| 13 | Some of these influences carried forward into the first fortnight of the campaign , though they faded towards the end . |
| 14 | Guillimont equalised midway through the first half from the penalty spot , while Manor were unlucky not to regain the lead when the referee blew for half-time just before a Lee Clutterbuck shot crossed the line . |
| 15 | The Association meets regularly on the first Friday of each month , at the RE Centre , when mass is said by our chaplain , Fr. |
| 16 | Comparing the ‘ Charlie Parker Story ’ directly with Vogue 's 14-track ‘ Original Bird ’ release ( and in effect listening critically for the first time ) , I found the Denon ‘ sound recovery ’ system somewhat inconsistent in places . |
| 17 | Mark Newbould scored twice in the first half for Stockton , Mark Gill added two more and Mark Briscow got the fifth after a run from halfway . |
| 18 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 19 | Spenser dwells longest on the first , revealing it filled with ‘ infinite shapes of things dispersed thin' ( II , IX , 50 ) . |
| 20 | International : Iran election feeds debate on ‘ Islamic solution ’ Iranians vote today for the first time since Khomeini died . |
| 21 | The high reputation and influence of Anatolian rugs declined rapidly after the First World War , when the creator of modern Turkey , Kemal Ataturk , set about purging the country of Armenians and Greeks . |
| 22 | This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place . |
| 23 | Their protests gained renewed impetus in the suffrage struggles immediately before the First War . |
| 24 | Its mouth curled upwards for the first time . |
| 25 | The Glasgow Gangs grew out of the First World War , when those too young to fight or know any better began to hang around street corners . |
| 26 | On the day appointed , the aircraft took off with the first stick , all of whom landed successfully . |
| 27 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 28 | At his first school , Stockwell Junior School , David dressed up for the first time in a school nativity play . |
| 29 | DEMAND for senior executives to fill top positions in British industry jumped sharply in the first quarter , according to a survey of the unadvertised executive jobs market by outplacement agency InterExec . |
| 30 | The action begins tomorrow with the first of two qualifying rounds , and as usual , the field is studded with quality . |