Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [prep] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hotman 's case is particularly interesting in that where in the first version the word populus was used , in the 1576 edition the term ordines , meaning orders or estates , was inserted to " clarify " the meaning , or , we might suspect , to reassure those alarmed by the dangerously democratic sound of the first version . |
| 2 | His appeal to the Supreme Court that the Smith Act was unconstitutional because of the First Amendment was rejected . |
| 3 | When seen in hospital she was far less depressed than on the first occasion and did not feel she needed further help . |
| 4 | In the first three months of 1990 , the guess is that they were again about 13% lower than in the first quarter of 1989 , but there are now hopes that it was the last drop for a while . |
| 5 | SSP is not payable if on the first day of the PIW your employee : |
| 6 | Very large crowds attended on the Friday , although not as vast as on the first day . |
| 7 | In the second phase assets affected were worth 25,000 million forints ( as at March 23 , 1992 , US$1.00=89.5858 forints ; there had been 1.9 per cent devaluation on March 16 ) , three times as much as in the first phase . |
| 8 | So where there is a virtual absence of such evaluations , such as amongst the first generation Caribbeans , there is also no direct influence from the family to children . |
| 9 | Since labour supply did not increase to meet this demand , the growth of civilian employment was only marginally higher in the late sixties and early seventies than in the first half of the sixties ( table 11.2 ) . |
| 10 | The entrance to the " opportunity garden " is less obvious than in the first drawing . |
| 11 | His voice had deepened , the words becoming more guttural as for the first time since she 'd met him he seemed to struggle with a language which was not his own . |
| 12 | The situation was slightly better than in the first half of the 1980s , when more power stations were cancelled than entered service , but those under construction all dated from orders placed at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 13 | I was n't sure until after the first preview . |
| 14 | Eventually , during my evolutionary wanderings through Biomorph Land — the sense of triumph was scarcely less than on the first occasion — I finally cornered them again . |
| 15 | But we need to get our moral thinking clear on this matter all the more because in the first stages of unbridled conflict both sides seem to be suggesting that there really was no moral problem at all because the principle that they were obsessed with was the only one that mattered . |
| 16 | Lucy listened to the repeated message with her heart in her mouth , and , hearing it again , the voice sounded even more arrogant than during the first recording . |
| 17 | All the intercepts are significantly greater than zero except for the first sub-period when it is significantly lower than zero . |
| 18 | higher than in the first half of 1990 . |
| 19 | Parrott is lively too , but the performances are gentler , and his often slower speeds-as in the first chorus of the Birthday Ode with its call to ‘ Celebrate this triumphant day'-bring out the dancing rhythms less infectiously . |
| 20 | Where sexual contact takes place in aggravating circumstances ( which are the same as for a first degree offence ) , criminal sexual conduct in the second degree is committed . |
| 21 | The overall order of main classes in the second edition remains essentially the same as in the first edition . |
| 22 | I it it 's oh no , we do n't want war , we 're all against war , but nobody is prepared to bother actually to go to a meeting or , or pay a small subscription and , and then you w you could of had a very strong United Nations now the same as after the first world war , but it 's the people that did n't do it . |
| 23 | Other than for the first flight of the day , engine run-ups are not deemed necessary because the aircraft 's engines are almost always warm , so off-chock to take-off times are often three minutes or less . |
| 24 | Fiona disappeared in August 1989 while on a first wedding anniversary holiday in France with her then husband , Mark Jones , who has since remarried . |
| 25 | Harry held his breath , catching at that as at the first landmark by which he might hope to get his bearings . |