Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an historic statute since for the first time it provided a statutory power for the banning of marches and processions of protest and demonstration . |
| 2 | Once again competitive prices were highly ranked by comparatively few DGMs ( 24 per cent ) though the same proportion of respondents were experiencing problems in obtaining comparative cost data as in the first year . |
| 3 | However , in most cases , the private person , even if not acting in the course of a business , is still really entering into a commercial transaction and it seems more likely that there will be more cases than in the first category where it will be reasonable that he accept some liability . |
| 4 | In conclusion , the population of England remained fairly stable for much of the fifteenth century , at a far lower level than in the first half of the fourteenth . |
| 5 | New light on an Old Master is illuminated indeed , and it 's what you will find at Canada House Gallery where for the first time , an almost forgotten body of work by Henri Matisse , relating to his fascination with the Canadian Inuit , has been mounted together with much original source material in the way of Inuit masks , photographs and books which the artist studied . |
| 6 | Will my hon. Friend commend as compulsory reading part of our proceedings in Committee when for the first time hon. Members listened for two or two and a half hours to — |
| 7 | ‘ If they manage that , I just hope we can force Liverpool into making as many errors as in the first leg . ’ |
| 8 | You fold the postcard in half , cut along the lines as in the first drawing . |
| 9 | That is , in spite of revising their reservation wages upwards , they are exiting faster in the second period than in the first period . |
| 10 | Soon , though , lava began to flow freely from the fissure , quite quietly and in much greater volumes than in the first phase . |
| 11 | Children are likely to be brought into contact with , and dependence on , a large number of ‘ step ’ relatives because of the first mechanism . |
| 12 | Repeat the checking for other holes as for the first strip |
| 13 | The European balance of power was thus after the Seven Years War a more subtle problem in many ways than in the first half of the century . |
| 14 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 15 | On the assumption that they would continue to fall at the same rate as in the first half of the decade , it was estimated that the population would be only one tenth of its size in a hundred years time . |
| 16 | After listening to each pair of words decide whether the sound in question is the same or different in the second word as in the first word , and put a tick in the appropriate column , first having ticked off word no. 1 . |
| 17 | Although there were nearly four times as many conscientious objectors as during the First World War , there was no organization remotely like the NCF . |
| 18 | The specifically German element comes to the fore , however , in Lutheran hymn-settings as in the first part of Normiger 's book and the ‘ Celler Tabulatur ’ of 1601 . |
| 19 | Of course , there are relatively as well as absolutely very many more poor people in the Third World than in the First World but this is not only a question of geography but also of transnational class location . |
| 20 | The understudy 's is a strange role , and never is he made more aware of its strangeness than on a first night . |
| 21 | The younger element , like Mark Perry , are being allowed to make their mistakes while in the first team and , once greater experience tells , United will have a balanced side of rich promise . |
| 22 | Needing 361 to avoid the follow-on , England find themselves in a similar but even tougher position than in the first Test at Calcutta where they lost by eight wickets . |
| 23 | By then the product will have reverted to being a reasonable business again — but not in a glamorous way as in the first phase . |
| 24 | We are concerned with the Secretary of State 's decision as to the first period , the ‘ tariff . ’ |