Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] and [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 3½m budget has been agreed for the project and the first phase of the programme , costing approximately £500,000 , is due to be completed soon . |
| 2 | He ducked low and scuttled across the open space between the door and the first row of desks , hoping Spatz would n't catch a glimpse of him , then ran along the corridor between the desks until he came to the end . |
| 3 | By an order dated 26 January 1989 , the stay on proceedings against the second defendant was lifted , and on 16 December 1991 , on a counterclaim by the second defendant , the plaintiff agreed to the rescission of the agreement and to repayment of the £18,000 , leaving as the sole issue the question whether the agreement of 2 March 1988 between the plaintiff and the first defendant was a defence to the plaintiff 's claim against the second defendant . |
| 4 | The gently raked-back pointy-esque headstock is again scarfed on between the nut and the first machine . |
| 5 | This produces a trade-off between the quality of the contract and the first mover advantage that accrues to the innovator of a derivative contract . |
| 6 | A little skimmer bream is my fourth fish of the day and the first I have had to net . |
| 7 | It was the coldest time of the year and the first thing I insisted on was having a telephone . |
| 8 | He saw a deep incised wound across the angle of the thumb and the first finger , with another cut on the fleshy mound of the thumb . |
| 9 | Each of the plaintiffs is a member of the scheme and the first defendant is the ombudsman appointed under it . |
| 10 | The truth was somewhere at the end of the line and the first facts were a kind of starting point . |
| 11 | The last three hours of the flood and the first two hours of the ebb are the prime feeding periods for flatties . |
| 12 | One and a half aeons is about the time that elapsed between the origin of the Earth and the first bacteria-like fossils . |
| 13 | The animal and vegetal poles define the main axis of the embryo and the first two cleavages are parallel to it while the third is always at right angles to it . |
| 14 | His plan was to reorganize the Southern League with other clubs into two divisions of eighteen to twenty clubs each , to be called the Football Alliance , with promotion and relegation between the Second Division of the League and the First of the Alliance as well as within the two organizations . |
| 15 | The next , dated 21st June 1935 , again requests tickets and is followed by one dated 25th August 1936 dealing with the signal and the first mention of the engine name plates and the final letter , dated 24th November 1936 , enclosing a receipt for pounds ; 2-0-0 , the scrap price of the signal . |
| 16 | It 's so , I mean , wake up Christmas morning and they put a tray out , the first thing they do on , the last thing at night , Christmas Eve they put a big tray out and on the tray they got it 's a called and they 're like chocolate biscuits , they 're like biscuits , right , and that gets with every member of the house , say there 's ten in that house , that that gets lined round the outside of the tray , right , and then inside of that 'll be now a circle of the wine , and then they have like whatever drink they got in the middle and the first thing that happens Christmas Eve morning is they get up and that gets poured and the tray goes round , if you sit down |
| 17 | Well the working in the pit and the first and the first time I went down the pit er the pit was er John Watson 's number four colliery in Motherwell . |
| 18 | SPEND a weekend in the country and the first thing to hit you is the silence . |
| 19 | It was the best winning total in the competition and the first victory by a local player . |
| 20 | If you 've got a spouse and children then the spouse is going to get household goods and personal effects , the ordinary everyday things in the house and the first seventy five thousand pounds . |
| 21 | I get told off by my girlfriend because I wake up in the morning and the first thing I say is , ‘ Flippin' heck , have you sent those newsletters off yet ? . ’ |
| 22 | Sir , — I write to draw attention to an inaccuracy in the headline and the first paragraph of your report on the consultation document for specialist designatory letters in your December 1992 issue ( Specialists to get Institute recognition , p 11 ) . |
| 23 | And of course the coach had come up the hill could n't overtake where I was parked , blocking off the entrance to the lane where I 'd just come out of so that the string of cars coming down the road and the first one wanting to turn in and of course the coach had covered it . |
| 24 | There is , however , one procedure that has been found to produce apparently the reverse effect — Hall and Schachtman ( 1987 ) have demonstrated that leaving a long interval between the last session of pre-exposure to the stimulus and the first test session will result in the restoration of an habituated UR while leaving latent inhibition unaffected . |
| 25 | It was the first day the wharf walk had been reopened to the public and the first night without a PC on guard at the scene of the crime . |
| 26 | Likewise , John Newcombe would visualise the sequence from the dressing-room on to the court and the first few games to stem nervousness and condition his reactions in advance . |
| 27 | It was then that the wind changed round to the north-west and the first , and worst , of the storms hit the Flamingo . |
| 28 | It included an introduction to the Programme and the first theme , Communication Ethics . |
| 29 | Otherwise , the sandwich is placed on the saw and the first glass slide cut off . |
| 30 | He had his top brass coming in from Washington to look at the operation and the first thing they 'd see at Filanta Court was this 30-foot PLO radio mast . |