Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] the first and " in BNC.
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| 1 | An anonymous reviewer of the book in the Times Literary Supplement declared : ‘ If a student of British politics were to demand some precepts to guide his researches , the compiler would have little difficulty about the first and most significant maxim in the creed . |
| 2 | The proportion of young people from classes I and II staying on at school until the age of 18 or later increased by 2.4 times between the first and the last cohort , while the corresponding proportions for the other two groups of classes are 2.3 and 2.1 times . |
| 3 | The 40-year gap between the First and Second Empires had in no way diminished the ability of these people to perform their functions properly and with dignity , and it should not be thought that the Court of Napoleon III had a sort of second-hand quality about it . |
| 4 | Complete fluency in the first and second languages is taken as prerequisite for training ( and one would expect a working interpreter to command at least four or five languages ) . |
| 5 | The ruling National Democratic Party ( NDP ) of President Hosni Mubarak was the clear winner in the first and second round of elections for the new People 's National Assembly , held respectively on Nov. 29 and Dec. 6 . |
| 6 | The two tasks are interrelated but in this book we separate them and look in this chapter at the first and most difficult task . |
| 7 | 22 Cadenzas for the first and second movements of the C major keyboard concerto , K.246 1b & 2b . |
| 8 | Erm and we have in fact , done some tests on the first and second floor since we did this eye test and er , humidity is in fact , within the the er the Health and Safety legislation , it 's within tolerance . |
| 9 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 10 | Rather , groups of from four to six youngsters from the first and second years of several project schools were engaged in tape-recorded discussion , usually in a section of the library or an empty neighbouring classroom . |
| 11 | Without exception , all ‘ groups ’ ( whether individual or group ) improved their average performance between the first and second repetitions . |
| 12 | The second cleavage is at right angles to the first and the third again at right angles . |
| 13 | Stopped for three months under the first and second Waverley criteria . |
| 14 | He leant back in his chair and thrust the unlit pipe into his mouth , holding the stem in that strange but characteristic grip between the first and second fingers of his left hand . |
| 15 | Shown in human form from the First and Second Dynasties like a primitive statue , he was as Tatenen the earth rising out of infinity and thus in this sense inherent in nature . |
| 16 | In the Piano Concerto it was , of course , an asset to have a soloist who could keep his head amid all the intricate polymetrical pulsations of the first and third movements . |
| 17 | That means political unpopularity for the first and the wrath of the ERM for the second . |
| 18 | Some local education authorities reorganised their primary schools on the first and middle school pattern recommended by Plowden ( eg Surrey , Isle of Wight , Suffolk ) , but the great majority continued to follow the established 5 — 7 , 7 — 11 pattern . |
| 19 | Later research showed that they were in fact storehouses and workshops , attached to hut-dwelling communities during the first and second centuries AD : quernstones were found in such a cellar at Barns of Airlie , and a chamber in a Carlungie souterrain seems to have been used for both stone and metal working . |
| 20 | the set also includes Debussy 's famous orchestrations of the First and Third Gymnopèdies , two short pieces ( Les Pantins dansent and Chooses vues à droite et à gauche [ sans lunettes ] , the latter his only pieces for violin and piano ) and the reasonably well-known Scorate , whose last movement can be heard either as 22 minutes of timeless , hypnotic beauty or the nearest Satie came to a musical sleeping draught . |
| 21 | Many courses in the first and second year of degrees seem to try to strike their own balance between breadth and depth , in terms of the amount they cover , and the detail they go into ; third-year courses typically cover less ground and go into more depth . |
| 22 | The recall part of the experiment started approximately 50 minutes after the first and 10 minutes after the last of the junctions had been driven through ( the exact times varied considerably depending on driving style and traffic conditions ) . |
| 23 | The context included the selector' five changes between the first and second Tests against England , the bog losses of that tour , and the subsequent glorious run in the World Cup . |
| 24 | There must be one year and one day between the first and last , under two different judges , which is no mean achievement . |
| 25 | Sole , however , was critical of the extensive travelling which the itinerary imposed on the Scots , with a four-hour flight between the first and second venues , Darwin and Brisbane , and then the same time on to Hobart … from one extreme to the other in less than a week . |
| 26 | When human society became more developed , achieving an efficient order under one ruler during the First and Second Dynasties , divine power was anthropomorphised and deities began to take human form . |
| 27 | If another image occurs during this time , we can not perceive any interval between the first and second images and they appear continuous . |
| 28 | Can you notice any differences between the first and second ways of performing this action ? |
| 29 | Thin sections of the first and third molars allowed him to demonstrate in roughly half the skeletons the residual lesions of sunlight deficiency rickets that had developed between infancy and age ten . |
| 30 | Cohen et al ( 1988 ) reported two case histories of runners who , unaware that they had conceived continued intense running regimes during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy ; both women had assumed their amenorrhoea was due to endurance training . |