Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible Minton also knew that the house was built on the site of former warehouses where some of the first slaves brought to Britain were unloaded and where many died . |
| 2 | The track index will take up part or all of the first track on each cylinder . |
| 3 | Johnny Lazar steps off the plane from the States and one of the first things he sees in London is a gangland killing … happens all the time . |
| 4 | Johnny Lazar steps off the plane from the States and one of the first things he sees in London is a gangland killing … happens all the time . |
| 5 | Johnny Lazar steps off the plane from the States and one of the first things he sees in London is a gangland killing … happens all the time . |
| 6 | Bernie Grant , representing Tottenham in the borough of Haringey and one of the first black MPs , was unequivocal and unambiguous in his opposition from the very start . |
| 7 | Of every cwt. of copper she was to receive 2s. or one-twentieth during the first five years thereafter to have 2s. 6d. , or one-fifteenth . |
| 8 | Such was his reputation that 2,000 people attended his funeral in Russia and one of the first statues in St Paul 's Cathedral in London was not of a sovereign , statesman or saint — but a simple , teetotal , vegetarian traveller who , as the inscription notes : |
| 9 | But there are at least four levels of understanding clearly discernible in a biblical view of faith and each of the first four categories of doubt runs parallel to one of these levels . |
| 10 | Going down with my dad who had been president of the lifeboat here for about fifty years , to meet the lifeboat as come in with survivors , I was just a wee boy at the time but I remember the Icelandic trawler , the Geyser and one of the first to be put ashore off the lifeboat that night , was a wee lassie , and she came across the pier and she came to me , because I was the only kid down there that night . |
| 11 | RIVER WEAVER : Usually a good starter and busy for the first few days . |
| 12 | This is a reminder that one of the first things a Kinnock government is pledged to do is sign the European Commission 's social charter , rejected by Mr Major at the Maastricht summit . |
| 13 | Sabrina opened the top file and leafed through the first few invoices . |
| 14 | The novelty of the decision lies in the characterisation of the husband as principal in the first degree acting through the innocent agency of the third party . |
| 15 | In at least two of the areas I visited the regional health authority and some of the first wave fundholders were wrangling over the savings accrued during the first year . |
| 16 | Enter Lucignano and one of the first things to immediately impress the first-time visitor is the peace and quiet of the town 's narrow streets and alleyways . |
| 17 | There has long been the counting of people as one of the first activities of states ( as we shall see in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 18 | hesitation , a great deal of divided effort as near as life as possible in the first instance . |
| 19 | Although it is modest compared with the major producing fields , it has great significance as one of the first of a new generation of small fields to use the processing facilities offered by another field operator . |
| 20 | While a broad toleration of different opinions characterized Jewish religious thought as such during the first century B.C. the conflicts between political and religious leaders , especially of the Pharisaic persuasion , were murderous . |
| 21 | Hoping to get the answer that one of the first things we did no rising was to wash , I was a little disconcerted when my same little lady piped up ‘ weight ourselves ’ . |
| 22 | So I could always go up there and I used there little drill for one thing and another in the first place and er built that premise for me there did and I did er |
| 23 | Of the eleven who won the Cup for Manchester United in 1948 , most of whom were internationals and all in the first rank of senior professionals , five went into football coaching and management , three ran newsagents ' shops ( customers presumably enjoyed discussing the sports headlines with men who had once made them ) , two worked in factories , and one became a night-telephonist . |
| 24 | Richard Elliott , the Headmaster , chose Francis as one of the first pupil teachers , and in due course promoted him to the position of junior teacher at the Margate branch of the Asylum . |
| 25 | The proembryoes can be frozen and stored , and their availability improves the chance of success of in vitro fertilizations as well as allowing a woman to have another child a year or two after the first . |
| 26 | Any upturn in demand also produces a substantial improvement in profit in several other of our businesses , for instance Westminster Press , Les Echo Lazards Tussaud and I 'd like to remind people that we 're a very second half oriented company and that in the first half of nineteen ninety two we had some major one-off contributions to profits which very much helped the figures , but nonetheless , we 're pleased at the way the trading profits of the operating companies are moving . |
| 27 | Where the causes are successive and the second defendant 's breach of duty has caused the same damage as that of the first defendant , the but for test will exonerate the second defendant . |
| 28 | We 'll need as much exposure as possible in the first couple of years , but it worries me that there 's no independent ‘ father figure ’ capable of speaking for the whole game and making sure it does n't ‘ do a snooker ’ . ‘ |
| 29 | There was a certain irony in the fact that one of the first things Baldwin told the King , on taking over from the decrepit MacDonald , was that he himself needed two months ' rest . |
| 30 | Vicente Gomes da Silva , born on 12 March 1827 , was the first commercial photographer in Madeira and one of the first in Portugal . |