Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | This edition builds upon the First Edition issued in early 1988 and takes account of reports on the operational experience of violence in the Department since that date . |
| 32 | The direct evidence belongs to the first century B.C. ( Diod. 5.22.4 ) . |
| 33 | While speaking he had been aware of the Doctor 's red , exasperated features grimacing in the first rank at the foot of the stairs ; he had seemed nervously excited , anxious , impatient that the auction should be over . |
| 34 | The High Authority met for the first time in the autumn of 1952 , and immediately set about trying to turn the principles of the Treaty of Paris into practical results . |
| 35 | 2 Gustave belonged to the first railway generation in France ; and he hated the invention . |
| 36 | The origins of this popular movement lie in the first wave of pressure for disarmament , which began with the emergence of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) in 1958 and ended in 1964 , with its decline in the face of the new Labour Government 's failure to rid itself of nuclear weapons . |
| 37 | It was possible to pay the skischool extra so that after school in the morning she would be taken to lunch in a local restaurant under supervision , then brought back to skischool in the afternoon , but for a 4-year old learning to ski for the first time to stay in skiboots all day is really very tiring . |
| 38 | ‘ Why was this baby kidnapped in the first place ? ’ |
| 39 | THE ISRAELI cabinet is being called this week to debate for the first time proposals made by Egypt for advancing the search for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . |
| 40 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 41 | Since the bombing raids began over Iraq , Britons have flocked to join the army ( inquiries in London have quintupled ) ; to give blood ( in Plymouth alone , more than 1,600 people volunteered in the first few days , and 110,000 followed suit across the country ) ; and to say their prayers ( Winchester Cathedral reported that the congregation for Matins last Sunday was up by a half on the usual number ) . |
| 42 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 43 | Proudly proclaiming that this recording contains for the first time on one CD all of Bach 's Toccatas and Fugues ( including the Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV548 ) , it is indeed a well-stocked programme . |
| 44 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 45 | There the Welsh and English school timetables differ , so that when a morning of Medau was started at the town hall , English-speaking mothers came to the first session and Welsh-speaking ones to the second ; she was therefore obliged to give the former in English and the latter in Welsh — surely a triumphant example of good public relations and adaptability — though Wynne claims that she is still having a struggle to master Welsh . |
| 46 | I refer to the rapid decline of the use of walnut in English furniture making in the first half of the 18th century . |
| 47 | The forensics , the laboratory stuff — all the stuff we 've taken in — soil , clothing fragments , even some flakes found on the first boy — they look promising , but we do n't get any further . |
| 48 | He came first equal in the foot-race This incident raises for the first time a question which is still being debated two and a half thousand years later : were the Macedonians Greeks ? the orators and propagandists of the fifth and fourth centuries do not help for they contradict each other . |
| 49 | The old man spoke for the first time . |
| 50 | Corgi 's answer to All the Sweet Promises , a long , absorbing , atmospheric Second World War tale of four different girls meeting as the first of the WAAFS and contributing courageously to the fight . |
| 51 | One of Barley 's more crashing mistakes occurs on a first and valuable meeting with the rainmaker . |
| 52 | This report describes for the first time the changes of UOS pressure that occur during spontaneous gastro-oesophageal reflux in unsedated children . |
| 53 | Mr Justice Hirst ordered a stay of English proceedings brought against the first defendant . |
| 54 | The overall median hospital stay from the first stage of percutaneous cholecystolithotomy was three days ( range one to 33 ) . |
| 55 | The median hospital stay from the first stage in patients with acute complications was 12 days ( range three to 33 ) . |
| 56 | In 1941 , the French Police cooperated in the first mass internments on French soil . |
| 57 | The stone free date corresponds to the first time the gall bladder was considered to be free of fragments and sludge . |
| 58 | In this extract the social worker focuses on the first aspect of the triad and explores with the client whether she is consistent in their guilt reaction . |
| 59 | The other one was that they would be th the direct debit re-present on the first of April would be running one day late erm which , as a consequence , means that the recall re-presents would come back one day late . |
| 60 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |