Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] to the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The direct evidence belongs to the first century B.C. ( Diod. 5.22.4 ) . |
| 2 | The stone free date corresponds to the first time the gall bladder was considered to be free of fragments and sludge . |
| 3 | This view led to the first restrictions on private members ' capacity to interrupt or hold up business whenever they liked — or whenever they could get the House to listen to them , for there was always considerable self-discipline . |
| 4 | The large early building dates to the First , or Old , Temple period and is the best-preserved building of that age so far found in Crete . |
| 5 | Easy rock leads to the first bulge , where a swing left under the overhang gains a glorious hand-jamming crack . |
| 6 | The second factor relates to the first and concerns the make up of the team . |
| 7 | When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s , the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment . |
| 8 | Senate set up a working party under Professor Furmston , Council asked consultants Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte to look at the matter , convocation set up an ad hoc working group to respond to the first two reports , and the Vice-Chancellor produced a report for Council which drew together the common threads in all three . |
| 9 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 10 | Some astronomers have convincingly argued that a BL Lac object ( a clumsy terminology referring to the first of this class to be discovered ) is simply a quasar with one of its beams pointing straight at us . |
| 11 | WHILE expensively-assembled Blackburn and Derby faltered in the Second Division promotion race , Charlton , who have no home or money to spend on players , continued their unlikely attempt to return to the First Division with a 2–1 win at FA Cup finalists Sunderland , writes Christopher Davies . |
| 12 | This ambiguous situation led to the first English clash with Spain . |
| 13 | collective title given to the first section of the final collected edition of Sketches by Boz , the edition published in monthly parts 1837–9 and in volume form in May 1839 . |
| 14 | The first man cycled to the first mark and left the cycle and hurried on , on foot . |
| 15 | An elegant staircase leads to the first floor , where the Edgsons have another living room overlooking the street . |
| 16 | At York , the first pageant proceeded to the first station at 4.30am , and it would be around midnight when the last play reached the twelfth and last station . |
| 17 | I climbed a narrow staircase leading to the first floor balcony . |
| 18 | Plans to expand the Windscale site with a major new development led to the first setpiece confrontation between the burgeoning antinuclear movement and the nuclear industry across the polite tables of a public inquiry . |
| 19 | The quest for louder reproduction led to the first ‘ amplifying gramophones ’ . |