Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The volume name should be that supplied in the first answer and the volume number should be the extension supplied at the end of the volume name in the HC FORMATTER 's end of run statistics . |
| 32 | The first laugh of the evening came with the phrase ‘ non-aligned countries like Nato ’ ; the second with the observation that killing for the first time is ‘ like sex ’ : Darke 's audience of true believers was easily pleased . |
| 33 | ‘ we are persuaded that , there being no authority to prevent us , it is preferable as a matter of justice to hold parties to their clearly expressed bargain rather than to introduce for the first time in 1971 an extension of a doctrine of land law so as to deny the efficacy of that bargain . |
| 34 | Make suggestions for people I can go out and hassle in the first couple of days of the week . |
| 35 | But , all those years ago , she simply had n't been experienced enough to realise that , despite those wonderful and ecstatic nights of passion , her marriage to Ross had been founded on a disastrously thin layer of quicksand ; a relationship which would crack and disintegrate under the first onslaught of any stress and tension . |
| 36 | But Hardin was writing long before the avalanche of discoveries that have revealed the fine structure of the human genetic material , spawned sensitive techniques of screening and most recently pre-implantation diagnosis , and led to the first attempts at gene therapy . |
| 37 | Just past the Ha'penny Bridge , the driver turned to the left into Lower Fownes 's Street and stopped before the first building on the right hand side . |
| 38 | We are exhorted to get all women planning a pregnancy to consume a supplement of 400 µg folic acid or folate daily and to continue through the first trimester . |
| 39 | He must have been about to take a shower , she realised , noticing a towel flung carelessly on to the bed , and seeing for the first time that his shirt was undone almost to the waist , revealing his broad , muscular chest with its lavish covering of silky golden hair . |
| 40 | Lake Gatun , into which the ships pass on a due southerly track after leaving the Caribbean and easing through the first set of locks , is an immense inland lake — though an artificial one created by the damming of the Chagres River . |
| 41 | And realised for the first time that my lot as a walker was far safer than that of a cyclist . |
| 42 | ‘ Is it really worth going somewhere else ? ’ she asked a trifly wistfully , filling her lungs with cool fresh air and realising for the first time that the pavements were damp and it must have been raining . |
| 43 | One postcard from Shanghai to Scotland , illustrating the railway station and posted before the First World War , bears the message ‘ is not the station like that at Fort Matilda ? ’ |
| 44 | They chatted quietly about old times — and daring for the first time to talk about the future . |
| 45 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 46 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
| 47 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 48 | In place of vague ideological statements and piecemeal policies the primary sector now needs a substantial programme of professional development and support aimed at enhancing the curriculum expertise of all its primary staff , and targeted in the first instance on those aspects of the curriculum where studies like this have identified the greatest problems . |
| 49 | Rejected reaffirmation of Labour 's former policy of unilaterally renouncing the use or possession of British nuclear weapons , and the ‘ unconditional removal of all nuclear weapons and nuclear bases from British soil and waters within the first parliament of the next Labour government ’ . |
| 50 | In conclusion , I 'd like to warn Ben that the Plage route at Buoux is n't his project , but one which was undertaken and tried for the first time by Le Menestrel , and that he has no particular rights over it . |
| 51 | He was arrested and tried for the first time in April 1916 . |
| 52 | Turn left from the entrance and wait on the first corner . |
| 53 | The wise veterans nod their heads and wait for the first whistle . |
| 54 | In the meantime , the railway 's in-service stock is being repainted in a new dark red and ivory livery , mainly by one locally based volunteer and adorned for the first time with the railway 's insignia . |
| 55 | Partly this is a matter of time and related to the first problem discussed above . |
| 56 | Second , and related to the first point , the model of man as a violent animal — and hence self-seeking and violent in the pursuit of attaining his goals — is useful as a justification for authority and institutions of authority . |
| 57 | What I did get away with was arguably worse than murder , and revealed for the first time something of what I was letting myself in for by getting involved with Karen Parsons . |
| 58 | In Paris ! ) , then took a growler and made for the first address I had . |
| 59 | By such standards both footballers and cricketers , provided they were among the minority who avoided injury and played in the first team , were quite well off for a few years . |
| 60 | Greenough and colleagues showed that preterm babies who did not require respiratory support had a high prevalence of wheeze and cough in the first year of life . |