Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greavesey of course and at the risk of overdosing on goals you can see all the action that mattered from the First Division yesterday . |
| 2 | It is the speaker 's intention and the addressee 's successful location of the intended referent that matter in the first usage , not the exact aptness of the description , so that we could call this usage speaker reference ( as opposed to semantic reference ; Donnellan , 1978 ; Kaplan , 1978 ) . |
| 3 | The original trophy that went with the first prize disappeared — it is thought at some time during the eighteenth century — and there was never enough money to replace it . |
| 4 | Winters are wild enough to curtail many of the outdoor pursuits that attract in the first place . |
| 5 | And , his answer to that , is that psychoanalysis can give us a very interesting and unique insight into , into religion , and this was an insight which had emerged in the course of , the nineteen twenties , following the developments of psychoanalysis that occurred after the First World War , which we 've already looked at and is essentially the concept of transference . |
| 6 | A head is all that part of a tone-unit that extends from the first stressed syllable up to ( but not including ) the tonic syllable . |
| 7 | The head was defined in the last chapter as ‘ all that part of a tone-unit that extends from the first stressed syllable up to , but not including , the tonic syllable ’ . |
| 8 | Indeed , a striking and major aspect of the final volumes of À la Recherche is their often cruel analysis of the moral bankruptcy and social collapse of this salon world , during the years that culminated in the First World War . |
| 9 | The later theory of instincts , which included the death instincts , as well as the sexual instincts which were retained from the first formulation , seemed to solve the theoretical difficulties that arose with the first theory of instincts . |
| 10 | Such expansion in a small business is particularly dangerous at this stage of its development in terms of potential survival given the number of small firms that fail in the first two years . |
| 11 | Nicholas 's personal judgement may well have been crucial in blocking negotiations with the Kadets in the fluid situation that prevailed in the first half of 1906 . |
| 12 | All that mattered was the next time he would see Kate ; beyond that he looked forward with an urgency that hurt to the first time they would make love . |
| 13 | The first laugh of the evening came with the phrase ‘ non-aligned countries like Nato ’ ; the second with the observation that killing for the first time is ‘ like sex ’ : Darke 's audience of true believers was easily pleased . |
| 14 | Also shown are photographs of some of the more notable news happenings that occurred during the first half of the present century . |