Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The album is preceded by the single ‘ Rain ’ , with a demonic American preacher , a Gambian thunderstorm and the bells of Oxford 's Merton college all segued in the first 20 seconds . |
| 2 | This is a concept relatively new to English company law having been introduced by section 9 of the European Communities Act 1972 to comply with the First Company Law Directive . |
| 3 | The second sentence of the issue of May 1988 refers to the first twenty years of the state : ‘ Threatening to ‘ push the Jews into the sea ’ , the Arab world reformulated the Nazi theory of Lebensraum in Mediterranean terms : there was no room in the region for a Jewish homeland . ’ |
| 4 | The advocate depute also stressed that the jury required to consider the case against each appellant separately , and that on any view there was sufficient evidence to entitle the jury to hold charge 3 proved against the first appellant . |
| 5 | Satish Nambiar , the commander of the UN Protection Forces for Yugoslavia ( UNIPROFOR ) , arrived in Yugoslavia on March 9 accompanied by the first advance party of the peace-keeping force agreed by the Security Council in February [ see p. 38778 ] . |
| 6 | In spite of the recession , reduced profits from property sales and a 50 per cent rise in interest charges to £3.5 million profit before exceptionals was down only 9 per cent to £22.1 million , of which £11.8 million came in the first half . |
| 7 | An invoice raised in April 1991 related to the first stage of contract payment on a verbal order given by the customer in March 1991 , ie the first payment was due from the customer on approval of the order . |
| 8 | In comparison with the other two passages , this one has a rather low frequency of nouns ( 4 ) ; moreover , over half of these nouns are abstract ( 20 ) , referring to entities which exist on a social or psychological plane : effort , subject , terms , money , feelings and aristocracy all occur in the first sentence . |
| 9 | Slough , Berkshire-based Ambitron Ltd showed for the first time in the UK the low cost desktop virtual reality system — CrystalEyes VR — and three-dimensional video system from Stereographics Corp of San Rafael , at the Virtual Reality ‘ 93 Conference in London earlier this month . |
| 10 | In the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan , 376 U.S. 254 relating to the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the American Constitution , the sentiments expressed by Brennan J. in his opinion accord closely with the approach of the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 11 | Our four hypertension related male deaths all occurred in the first 12 years of the 21 years of follow up , suggesting their treatment was probably begun too late . |
| 12 | This section concentrates on the second and third of these phases ; Section 5.2 looks at the first phase . |
| 13 | A charter by James I gave for the first time , the power to levy a tax on vessels entering the port and also on the goods they carried . |