Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [prep] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c ) prescribe the value zero for each of the first n - 1 functions in F , the last being written f . |
| 2 | With astonishing speed , cults such as that of the first martyr , Stephen , spread over the whole Mediterranean world , and , eventually , beyond . |
| 3 | I also spoke to the chief investigator of the Senate committee , who said that he had taken a large amount of information about this to the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington , but the British government had hampered any further investigation . |
| 4 | As a result of this feedback , we are now considering adding extra modules to the original specifications for some of the first phase of general SVQs . |
| 5 | To their great credit , Romania looked far from demoralised on the field , driving the Scots on to the back foot for much of the first half and restricting the scoreline to 3-0 until the 39th minute . |
| 6 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |
| 7 | Thus by prioritizing intention and relegating consequences as accidents — conveniently turning a blind eye to strict liability-corporate officials can proceed to commit corporate crimes because they do not perceive them as such in the first place . |
| 8 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 9 | Since an earlier study ( Wing , 1988 ) had reported no improvement in client experience of some of the first people to move out of Darenth Park Hospital , in services which themselves turned out to replicate many of the organizational features of the hospital , it was decided to include some measures of the physical and social environment as well as of client experience . |
| 10 | Hybrid Tea bush types After attending to the basics or primary aspects — removing completely all dead , diseased and feeble wood ( you wo n't find much of this in the first year ) — seek to prune to outward-pointing buds that will grow out along the line of growth , not sideways , so that this growth leads to an open cup or shuttlecock shape . |
| 11 | Now orders came from the , and also we had orders for th , e the falling target in the you know , of a , a rifle range where you had to er put up the frames you know with a target on it and er we made a lot of these during the First World War . |
| 12 | Of all of the First Spiritualists , he was the only one who seemed , in some way , to have been affected by this business with my dad . |
| 13 | These trends are also confirmed in the Guardian 's ‘ People At Work Survey ’ which found that some 49 per cent of those with a GCE/CSE qualification would consider moving to take up their next job , 59 per cent of those with a first degree and 74 per cent of those with a doctorate would do so . |
| 14 | There are n't many of those in the First Church . |
| 15 | There were six of those in the first section of the compartment . |
| 16 | The Districts of Bedfordshire had the largest increase of any in the first period ( 10.3 per cent ) , followed by the second largest decrease ( -9.0 per cent ) in the second period , and a middling change in the third . |
| 17 | They were like that from the first time I met them . ’ |
| 18 | If they were smart enough to get bored , they would n't be doing a job like this in the first place . |
| 19 | No retro-bolting should take place without a common consensus of opinion , including that of the first ascentionists . |
| 20 | This is because the students will be dealing with this for the first time and this is thought to be a clearer presentation . |
| 21 | Remember you 're going into this for the first time . |
| 22 | As we drive from mine to exhausted mine I chat with some of the first group about doing geology . |
| 23 | I would agree entirely with all of the first part of your discourse Mr Chairman , |
| 24 | Once the phase of immediate implementation was passed , this group came little by little to realign itself with many in the first group against whom they had in the conciliar years themselves taken quite a clear stand : a new status quo must be achieved if the Church was not to be upset by ceaseless change and debate . |
| 25 | Jump instructions could be a fourth group , if the layout of the addressing mode and operand fields differs from that of the first group . |
| 26 | Both are disqualified because the bones of their skulls are so different from those of the first fossil amphibians that the one can not be derived from the other . |
| 27 | There was a drop of about six feet to the top of the window beneath , and an equal drop to that on the first floor . |
| 28 | If the latter 's optical axis is parallel to that of the first crystal than the beam is totally transmitted , if it is perpendicular to the first optical axis none of the beam gets through . |
| 29 | One of Mr Thomas 's conditions , supported by Mrs Noble , was that Edward and Helen should not correspond when he left for Oxford , and they agreed to this for the first term . |
| 30 | For clearly , if ever he trusted to this in the first place , he had come without any weapon . ’ |