Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the first [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 2 | It is tempting to see this as the first occasion when the judges insisted on independence on this principle . |
| 3 | The children turned to face one another for the first time since the pastor had started to tell the story of the massacre . |
| 4 | If we take the ‘ developing countries ’ as a group , compared with the ‘ more developed countries ’ , infant mortality ( in the first year ) is more than five times as high in the first group as it is in the second ; but during the years from one to four — that is , after weaning — the mortality rate in the developing countries is forty times as high as elsewhere : forty deaths for every thousand children surviving their first year , compared with one per thousand in the more developed areas ( Pate , 1965 ) . |
| 5 | If the latter 's optical axis is parallel to that of the first crystal than the beam is totally transmitted , if it is perpendicular to the first optical axis none of the beam gets through . |
| 6 | Longman had a very , very er , very good increase in profits and the Addison Wesley loss , which is bigger in the first half than usual er , is n't something that bothers me particularly , I 'm really quite relaxed about full year performance , but just to make sure they 're er , attacking erm , expenses , travel , administration , that kind but nothing in the erm , book investment programme . |
| 7 | Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong . |
| 8 | They are similar , but the initial mouth opening is larger in the first group than in the second . |
| 9 | The average family pays nearly £2,000 a year in interest on debts and mortgages , but last year we ran our household budgets in the black for the first time since the mid-Eighties — and managed to tuck away £10.6 billion in savings . |
| 10 | Oil exports were resumed on June 11 for the first time since the outbreak of the Gulf war [ see pp. 37934-43 ] . |
| 11 | Middlesbrough had the better of the first half once they survived the opening quarter of an hour when Ironside , deputising for the injured Pears , kept them on terms . |
| 12 | Manager Atkinson said : ‘ I thought QPR were having the better of the first half until Deano did what he 's good at — scoring a goal when there is not really anything on . |
| 13 | There was a stage about two thirds into the first half when ( because they had n't scored yet despite aggressive assaults on the West Ham box ) Batty square-balled it after crossing into their area . |
| 14 | That five thousand per annum figure is a guaranteed figure , we could in fact print seven thousand in the first year if they wanted . |
| 15 | But Scotland looked better in the first half when only penalties were scored . |
| 16 | Kilmarnock were unlucky in the first half when Gus McPherson hit the crossbar , but goals from Paul Harvey and Craig Flannigan after the break gave Clydebank the points . |
| 17 | Multiparty elections to a 23-member constituent commission were held on July 23-26 for the first time since the 1977 coup , when Sir James Mancham was overthrown by France-Albert René [ see pp. 28485-86 ] . |
| 18 | We also expect marketing margins to be weaker in the first quarter because of the effect on demand of the generally mild weather . |
| 19 | The thickness does not decrease linearly , but follows an exponential curve , with the thickness decreasing much more over the first kilometre than the second , and so on . |
| 20 | Savimbi returned to Luanda on Sept. 27 for the first time since the start of the 16-year civil war . |
| 21 | The most tangible signs of this tendency to borrow more are highlighted in the Central Statistical Office 's Social Trends 1989 , which showed that household expenditure exceeded income in 1986 and 1987 for the first time since compilation of the information began . |
| 22 | The most tangible signs of this tendency to borrow more are highlighted in the Central Statistical Office 's Social Trends 1989 , which showed that household expenditure exceeded income in 1986 and 1987 for the first time since compilation of the information began . |
| 23 | Tens of thousands of East Berliners streamed to the West , unhindered for the first time since the Wall was put up 28 years ago . |
| 24 | They , the birds , are mentioned first in the first verse when Mac Caig is talking about Saint Francis as a ‘ talker with birds ’ . |
| 25 | It was generally felt he would have won at St Andrews after his 29 for the first nine in the first round if he had n't had part of the round washed out and had to continue the next day . |
| 26 | With the prospects of breaking the stalemate fading , hopes rose following the announcement that the government and ANC representatives had held talks on July 28 for the first time since the ANC broke off contact on June 23 . |
| 27 | A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England . |
| 28 | ‘ One called upon the half-mortals , using words of such power that we were compelled to come instantly , breaking the spell-wall and leaving Andernesse undefended for the first time since the Four Cities fell . |
| 29 | While in 1965 at the Spencer Churchill sale top examples were changing hands for around £600 , and in the 1970s in the low thousands , the prices at the Castle Ashby sale shot up into the hundred thousands for the first time as new collectors , both Greek and American , competed against each other . |
| 30 | She has the whip-hand for the first time since the cock-up over the separation when they had to apologise for making it known that the knives were out for the Duchess . |