Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheap solar energy conversion has been a dream of some scientists since the first oil crisis back in the late 1970s . |
| 2 | Many people seemed to become aware of such things for the first time in their lives . |
| 3 | I intend to keep the fry in a number of these nets for the first few weeks of their lives and feed them on newly hatched brine shrimp . |
| 4 | Yes , this , this kind of thing happens to people who 've been in traumatic situations , like erm er prisoner of war camps , severe accidents and stuff like that , and Freud himself of course saw quite a lot of these cases after the First World War . |
| 5 | Anyone using the double-paddle of these canoes for the first time finds his ( or her ) chest expanded in a strain on shoulder muscles he never knew were there until he started canoeing . |
| 6 | What a pleasure it is to hear some of these pieces for the first time in clear digital sound ! |
| 7 | This blanket term covers the ‘ blues ’ at one end of the spectrum ( affecting between 70 and 80 per cent of all women in the first week or so after birth ) to the post-puerperal psychosis which temporarily hospitalizes three in every thousand mothers . |
| 8 | He maintained that the death of Christ was for the sins of all men against the first covenant . |
| 9 | ‘ I remember seeing some of those photos for the first time , I mean the ones with women with chicken heads laying eggs . |
| 10 | The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan has been sufficiently impressed with the results so far to finance the printing of enough copies for the first year pupils of three comprehensive schools beginning in September 1985 . |
| 11 | That would explain the familiar juvenilian ring of several passages in the first two acts . |
| 12 | It is quite normal of course to have a rapid weight loss of several pounds in the first week due mainly to water loss ( our bodies are 70 per cent water ) . |
| 13 | Whether or not you have another attempt at the let-down , must be your decision in the light of any guidelines on the first go . |
| 14 | The " and then " reading of both ands in the first sentence can be shown to be systematically " read in " to conjoined reports of events by a pragmatic principle governing the reporting of events tell them in the order in which they will or have occurred . |
| 15 | How did you find out about these firms in the first place ? |
| 16 | The question of the birth rate was to be more crucial in the years after the Education Act , in the debates around the Royal Commission on Population , which reported in 1948–49 , but the existence of the commission itself from 1943 demonstrates public and official concern with such ideas in the first few years of the war . |
| 17 | The micro , which is itself able to display rich patterns of behaviour , perhaps presents us with these opportunities for the first time . |
| 18 | No doubt human settlers , moving into these forests for the first time , were delighted and surprised to find such fertile meadows in the heart of the dense forest and built their homes beside them . |
| 19 | It 's about those flats for the first act . |
| 20 | Large areas of western Scotland , mid- and North Wales and the upland zones of the North and South West of England have exhibited population gains , in some cases for the first time in over a century . |
| 21 | In the event of trouble , many of the non-union operators now would have easier access — in some cases for the first time — to the political system and its protective police arm . |
| 22 | The second type of late Saxon town , which overlaps in some cases with the first , is the fortified burghs . |
| 23 | Inflation , which fell in the second half of 1989 , rose in some countries in the first half of 1990 , was anticipated to increase further in 1990 due in part to oil price increases . |
| 24 | Section headings which were found only in some chapters in the first edition have been extended through each chapter . |
| 25 | The early essay on Levinas , dating from 1964 , shows the extent to which Derrida has been implicated in such questions from the first — though , contra Norris , he has always shown that the conditions of ‘ writing ’ that make ethics possible also makes them impossible . |
| 26 | In these texts for the first time we find ‘ precatory ’ being used to describe the essential nature of trusts , and as the key to discovering what legal institution is involved . |
| 27 | Under this rubric there have been several locations which in the 1980s , at least at a particular , symbolic level , have lent a rhetorical credibility to the notion of an urban renaissance in many parts of the First World . |
| 28 | Another important feature of the election was the relatively weak showing of the extreme right-wing Republicans ( Republikaner ) , who gained seats in several councils for the first time but whose votes lagged far behind those obtained in the European elections in June 1989 and forecast in recent opinion-poll findings . |
| 29 | Such competition effects normally occur in both half-fields in the first month of life , but significantly reduce by 3 months , a change linked to cortically mediated attentional mechanisms . |
| 30 | Along with the island 's hydro-electric scheme — bringing power to some houses for the first time — and the harbour improvements , the incident will probably go down in Shetland annals as another stage in Foula 's modernisation . |