Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are currently two systems installed at the Lower Shakespeare Drift with a further six due for installation during the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 2 | ICL will start distributing trial packages bundled with DRS/NX V7 in June — with full implementations embedded with DRS/NX V8 due for release in the first quarter next year . |
| 3 | Full details of the results for the three months to 31st March 1993 with comparisons for the first quarter of 1992 are included in the Statistical Information attached to this press release . |
| 4 | A very likely explanation is that it is a form of hyll = hill , found in the West Midlands and the south-west as the Middle English hull , and this in combination with the first syllable forms a byname given in the fourteenth century to a person who lived ‘ up the hill ’ . |
| 5 | The phenomenon seems to me to be different in kind from the first . |
| 6 | And what monumental arrogance — to think that an evening in his company would be enough to wean her away from Rob — that was if she had been interested in Rob in the first place ! |
| 7 | Anyway , nobody would be particularly interested in Connie after the first day . |
| 8 | We are still six points clear on top of the First Division with a game in hand . |
| 9 | We have arranged a special offer : Country Living readers will be admitted free on presentation of the first page of this article ( or take along the March issue if you do not wish to cut your magazine ) . |
| 10 | Entry to the final two years of this course is dependent on performance in the first three years . |
| 11 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 12 | And if the base of the wall could not be penetrated , movable towers were built which could be wheeled up to attack the wall from without ; in the longer sieges , such as that of Antioch during the First Crusade , fixed towers were erected over against the walls to harry the defenders and enable a watch to be kept on them . |
| 13 | The alcove to the left of the fireplace had a rounded arch at the top with three shelves , chock-a-block with crest china souvenirs , so much in fashion during the first quarter of this century . |
| 14 | Yet neither side , partly because of the very existence of the truce , partly because of its own domestic divisions ( which were becoming more serious in France as the first decade of the new century progressed ) wished to raise fundamental issues . |
| 15 | United , second from bottom of the First Division , looked doomed to defeat when they fell behind 14 minutes from time , but Lee Clark rescued a point with a 25-yard special in the 88th minute . |
| 16 | They lost 3–0 to Coventry on the first day of the season . |
| 17 | After overcoming Blackburn 3-0 at home in the first leg , due largely to an injury to Rovers ' goalkeeper Terry Gennoe , they were beaten 2-1 last night but prevailed on aggregate . |
| 18 | The tourists had looked decidedly ordinary at times during the first half , but combined more fluently in the second to run up their most convincing victory to date , albeit a hollow one . |
| 19 | The special envoy of the UN Human Rights Commission , Reynaldo Galindo Pohl , arrived in Iran on Jan. 21 as head of the first UN delegation to visit the country to investigate alleged human rights abuses since the 1979 revolution . |
| 20 | The man is dressed in the elegant black and white of Cambridge before the First World War . |
| 21 | It remains highly questionable why such a sensational and unrealistic play should be thought worthy of attention in the first place , but this is perhaps indicative of attitudes within the theatre that mental handicap is a good basis for plays written by writers who have no understanding of mental handicap but view it as a subject of horror around which some dramatic scenario can be created . |
| 22 | The following examples taken at random from accounts of the first half of the 19th Century show how the mine costs were arrived at and how the men were paid . |
| 23 | Maintenance arrangements existing prior to the 1988 Budget remain largely unaffected , other than that payments received by divorced or separated spouses are exempt from tax on the first £1,720 . |
| 24 | Masons seem to have earned around 15s in London over the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century , and if employment was regular , that seems to represent a " middle line " for metropolitan artisans until the steeply inflationary 1790s . |
| 25 | ‘ It would be a 10-year lease , index-linked to inflation for the first five years and I would have to do all the repairs the brewery had n't done . ’ |
| 26 | Faith that Jesus was God 's anointed prophet and king ( Messiah ) was basic to self-definition for the first church . |
| 27 | Felt-tips or fibre-tipped pens that give a strong , dark line are useful for children in the first classes , the disadvantage being that pressure can cause the tips to splay or split . |
| 28 | In the worst of conditions , Gloucester were desperate to win and they made sure of victory in the first half , when Martin Roberts kicked them into a 6-0 lead with 2 penalties . |
| 29 | He was impressed with Myra from the first moment he saw her : " She was a tremendous talent with a feel and flair which can not be taught . " |
| 30 | FROM THE treasury of BBC moving pictures comes a further production of classic action , all set on English fields , all in colour except the first sequence ( the Oval Test of 1968 ) , all pleasant , positive viewing . |