Example sentences of "[prep] the first [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That means political unpopularity for the first and the wrath of the ERM for the second . |
| 2 | The male looks after the first and the female the second . |
| 3 | McAteer with the first and the second was entirely down to Lee who exploited the goalkeeper 's crumbling self-confidence . |
| 4 | unc It is apparent from the first that the vector elements are changing sign ; so we do not reduce a homologous element to unity ( though in general we might periodically remove a power of 10 ) . |
| 5 | He should have known from the first that the chasm which lay between them would not be so easy to cross . |
| 6 | The dragon-ships of midstream , abandoning the dead in the first and the second , thrust forward and , turning rapidly in , ran up on shore further upriver and began to land men fast , under a renewed fall of arrows . |
| 7 | The feelings of joy and despair in these two passages are almost equally balanced , and the Jewish cry of delight on seeing the shore-line of Palestine in the first and the image of Arab guns and hopelessness on leaving Palestine in the second are even more relevant now than they were then . |
| 8 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |