Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , this finding has led to further speculation about the role of hostile , critical and overprotective parenting in the first onset of schizophrenia . |
| 2 | They had , especially in the hard hopeless times of the first half of the century , been fused into a homogeneous mass of the discontented and the oppressed . |
| 3 | DUNMORE 'S National Sprint winner Ballyfolion Shy can take another step towards classic glory in the first round of the Respond Irish Derby at Shelbourne Park tomorrow night . |
| 4 | As he explained in the rhyming preface to the first part , he had written it |
| 5 | The offence is in outline very similar to the pre-existing offence under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5A , although it adds ‘ behaviour ’ to the list of proscribed activities for the first time . |
| 6 | The adoral shields are large , not separating the oral shield from the first arm plate . |
| 7 | In view of the fact that Miliutin was made chairman of the new local government commission the prospects for a generous solution looked good , but the commission made little progress in the first year of its life . |
| 8 | For the purpose of the Anticipation — the advance payment of the first instalment of the subsidy on assessments of £40 — both lands and goods were treated alike , their owners being considered equally capable of paying sooner than anyone else . |
| 9 | In Spain , as part of the administrative reorganisation under the first Bourbon king , Philip V , a new secretariat of state was created in 1714 for the handling of foreign affairs . |
| 10 | These steps were agreed by the government , the African National Congress ( ANC ) and 17 other political groups at the first meeting of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa ( CODESA ) in December [ see pp. 38662-63 ] . |
| 11 | At the beginning of that period the devastating experience of the First World War and the abolition of the monarchy had created a hiatus in the self-confidence of the bourgeoisie which necessitated the founding of the legitimacy of the state on welfare principles ( Offe , 1984 ) . |
| 12 | The authors do not ask why the players adhered to and implemented these unnecessary checks in the first place . |
| 13 | Earlier this season , a last- minute goal from Duncan Ferguson did the damage and the return of the tall striker to the first team after resolving his personal problems is another reason for Aberdeen 's manager , Willie Miller , to view the game with caution . |
| 14 | Possibly the most trouble-free and profitable course in the first year is to grass-let part of the farm , on your own terms , thereby keeping the farm in work whilst leaving you free to get on with your development plans . |
| 15 | In fact there has been a complete census in the first year of every decade since 1801 ( excepting 1941 ) . |
| 16 | He had looked for a loophole in their guard , he had found that crevice at the first time of asking . |
| 17 | The other part is having coherent policies in the first place . |
| 18 | Laws without strong enforcement are words without deeds , and the tragic truth is that courts in both England and the United States have displayed a general unwillingness to mete out harsh punishment to those found guilty of cruelty to animals and an even greater reluctance to render guilty verdicts in the first place . |
| 19 | Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion . |
| 20 | Why then did you put over a hundred thousand pounds in that budget in the first place ? |
| 21 | In other words these Guatemalan children show , as do Dennis 's institutionalized infants , that retardation during the first year or two of life is reversible , and that early experiences , however drastic at the time , do not necessarily set up patterns of behaviour that can not subsequently be modified . |
| 22 | I said that , as brewers never sell beer at a loss , why did not the brewers knock £30 or £40 off the price of a barrel to the tenants of their tied houses in the first place ? |
| 23 | Salford intend to advertise for a full-time successor to the First Division 's longest serving coach . |
| 24 | Moving on to sport now and Oxford United face Reading at the Manor tonight in the first round , second leg of the Rumbelows League Cup , the of a one-goal advantage from the first leg at Elm Park ; covering the match this evening is Mickey Inotta who saw Oxford 's bubble burst on Saturday as they went down 3-1 to Nott 's County . |
| 25 | Er I mean the er it 's er , course there are three orders that we are looking at tonight , it includes the er the third order er in relation not to boundaries but to the registration of overseas er voters to enable them to vote er in this , in this er election within U K constituencies and therefore that 's why the position that Mr David Robeddow as the chairman of Conservatives abroad er in Monte Carlo is relevant , er but also bec because of course the purpose of the European parliament for the first time as it will go through under these new boundaries , now is that they will be able to remedy some of that democratic deficit . |
| 26 | Mind you , England should have been home and clear before that , but poor Barnes , the man who had won the Cup final at Twickenham with a last-minute magical goal kick , could not get a goal from eight attempts in the first half . |
| 27 | A protocol was signed , however , preserving economic ties into the first quarter of 1992 and with the aim of guaranteeing over that period deliveries of the equivalent of 70 per cent of first quarter deliveries in 1991 . |
| 28 | And he was a wounded pensioner er and he , he applied for a grant which you , which er a wounded soldier in the First World War could get if you had a pension he could get a grant of that pension to learn a trade . |
| 29 | ‘ If she 's dead , ’ said Sam , ‘ she 's not going to mind much about anything , and anyway , if she went to all the trouble of making that tape in the first place , she 's obviously not bothered about leaving it lying around . |
| 30 | But that Saturday for the first time in his life , he invited his youngest son Patsy to attend the ball-game along with himself and his other three sons . |