Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] by the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The Supreme Court had held flag-desecration to be a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment , but this bill provided for only a $25 fine in cases of assault upon flag-burners . ) |
| 2 | Finally , the national forum recommended by the first Haycocks Report should perform the same function for courses for part-time teachers . |
| 3 | THE government 's programme of forcibly repatriating Vietnamese boat people will proceed despite the international outcry provoked by the first removal operation on Monday night . |
| 4 | The opening day scene on the Marton route in 1901 , where nobody looks very happy , which might be a reflection of the rough ride given by the first car ! |
| 5 | Experimental evidence on both processes is patchy , but there is at least one impeccable candidate for a black hole formed by the first mechanism , namely Cygnus X-1 . |
| 6 | Rather more ideologically committed to a new form of politics were those for whom anti-semitism was seen as the reason for the changes in British and European society engendered by the first World War . |
| 7 | She accepted the first price offered by the first jeweller , not realizing that she could probably have raised fifty per cent more money by bargaining or trying other shops . |
| 8 | They investigated the rate of autoshaped pecking controlled by the first of two keylights presented serially and were able to show that the rate was elevated when the first element was an inaccurate predictor of its consequences . |
| 9 | The stability of biliary cholesterol verified by the first appearance of cholesterol monohydrate crystals ( nucleation time ) , rather than the cholesterol saturation index ( CSI ) , is considered to be a better index for differentiating bile metastability . |
| 10 | I know that deep within these creatures , these poor abandoned creatures , are the seeds of the Lost Enchantment , the thin , almost-dead bewitchment spun by the first sorcerers . |