Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now by the usual rule for differentiation of determinants , unc is linear and homogeneous in the first minors of{ gd } ( |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He advocated the combined system and regretted that , at the very moment when state aid was going to be available for the education of the deaf and dumb for the first time , oral teaching was recommended by the Report of the Royal Commission . |
| 5 | Building materials were scarce and expensive in the first decades of the nineteenth century , and stucco could cover a multitude of sins , including poor stone or brickwork . |
| 6 | Middlesbrough were edgy and frustrating in the first half against a Bristol side without promotion or relegation pressure . |
| 7 | There is something small and pitiable and mean-spirited about the first ; but the second is a universal spirit whose love is noble and all-enveloping . |
| 8 | The antecedent and consequent of the first sentence do not , in this context , function to express disapproval either of polygamists or of Solomon . |
| 9 | The federal criminal office recorded 6,336 anti-foreigner offences ( many of them minor ) in 1992 and 1,339 in the first three months of 1993 . |
| 10 | We say that if food is good and wholesome in the first place , we do n't need irradiation . |
| 11 | ICI will be able to stop manufacturing CFCs 11 and 12 in the first quarter of next year , having secured supplies for its remaining customers through a deal with Akzo . |
| 12 | DEC and IBM will follow along with support for Chinese and Korean in the first quarter . |
| 13 | Berry explained : ‘ We got into base camp with the group of trekkers on May 8 and one of the first people I ran into was Krishchaty , just by chance . |
| 14 | Beck , who had defeated Aki Ohmachi of Japan 8 and 6 in the first round , was heading for an even bigger defeat . |
| 15 | You know you have to do something but are unclear and afraid of the first step . |
| 16 | For Weir , who like Kerr had a modest tour , the biggest personal highlights came when he scored 37 and 40 in the first Test match . |
| 17 | Previous attempts to do this had always foundered on the fact that the fun usually resulted pretty soon in procreation but at this very time field trials of the contraceptive pill were taking place which would soon make the division practical and permanent for the first time in history . |
| 18 | Apologies for absence , minutes of the previous meeting , agenda , jokes and folksy parables bored one and all for the first half-hour . |
| 19 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 20 | Scores of one and 25 in the first Test at Calcutta were in line with his dismal average of 17 , but in the first innings of the second Test in Madras , he at last showed signs of mastering the Indian spinners . |
| 21 | For Pound 's animus against Virgil was deep-seated and virulent from the first , and it persisted . |
| 22 | The seating in these open vehicles was two and one in the first class and the third . |
| 23 | Defence Ministers of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) states ( Bahrain , Kuwait , Oman , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates ) met in Kuwait on Nov. 14 and 15 in the first of four ministerial meetings ahead of the planned summit in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 21 . |
| 24 | Captain Kim Barnett and the Peter Bowler the batsman putting on a hundred and two for the first wicket . |
| 25 | So we 'll go a hundred and eighty in the first three hours . |
| 26 | Humphrey Lyttelton recounts : ‘ We brought along with us a strong contingent from Camberwell Art School , and John Minton , now recognised as a distinguished painter , was among the most formidable and dangerous of the first school of dancers . ’ |