Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 2 | The move was widely regarded as the first step towards full normalization of diplomatic relations , which had been suspended after the communist victory in the Vietnam war in 1975 . |
| 3 | The defendants argued that deformity would have occurred as a result of the injury , whether or not it had been properly diagnosed on the first trip to hospital . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 5 | Sergeant Tom Durrant , Royal Engineers and 1 Commando , was badly wounded in the first exchange of fire as the ML 's commandos and naval crew brought their light weapons to bear on the German destroyer . |
| 6 | On Jan. 7 the Iraqi Health Minister Umid Midhat Mubarak said that 85,942 Iraqis , including 27,473 children under five [ not 80,000 as wrongly given in the first paragraph of the article on p. 38696 ] , had died due to medical shortages . |
| 7 | Amateur Champion Stephen Dundas was only named as the first reserve … |
| 8 | ‘ That 's just not true , ’ she protested , ‘ his innocence did n't prevent him from being wrongly accused in the first place , did it ? ’ |
| 9 | Effect is wrongly used in the first sentence of the passage . |
| 10 | First-half turnover was down compared with the first half of 1991-92 to $171.1m from $196m , although the company says revenues were constant , given comparable structures . |
| 11 | Every school was visited , head teachers were consulted , suppliers were arranged , and an accounting system set up , all geared towards the first day of the new contract on February 17 . |
| 12 | Legends about the Babylonian and Persian period were revived — or perhaps invented for the first time — to encourage faithfulness to the Mosaic Law in the new conditions . |
| 13 | Here , he is allowing the Bible a degree of jurisdiction over scientific statements , which , though merely affirmed in the first place , might after all turn out to be demonstrable . |
| 14 | The first group were highly cited in the first year after publication , and declined thereafter . |
| 15 | Many of them are only followed for the first pitch , either because they finish up easier slabs ( which might well suit some people ) or become much harder . |
| 16 | Joint-authored papers are only cited under the first author . |
| 17 | The last buildings to be completed were those of the Banca Commerciale which were only finished in the first quarter of the twentieth-century . |
| 18 | How , I wondered , had the woodlands become so neglected in the first place ? |
| 19 | Accessibility is not so important with the small , closed conferences because the participants are usually either highly motivated in the first place ( because of specialist interest or commitment ) or their employers require them to go or at least agree that they should . |
| 20 | A second dimension , to serve as the horizontal axis , is selected from the next highest scoring constructs provided that this is not highly correlated with the first choice . |
| 21 | Devitrification is almost universal in ancient glasses which were usually badly made in the first place and have had plenty of time to crystallize ; the result , however is , often very beautiful , though these old glasses have become very weak . |
| 22 | In theory this process had already been widely applied in the first half of the century ( see The Age of Revolution , chapter 8 ) but in practice it was enormously reinforced after 1850 by the triumph of liberalism . |
| 23 | The problem is that writing was not developed in the first place to preserve the meanings of talk or conversation . |
| 24 | Just picked for the first trial . |
| 25 | If a photon is not caught by the first membrane , it may be caught by the second , and so on . |
| 26 | There were other cases where the name of the rape survivor was not disclosed in the first press report but a few weeks later , the name would suddenly appear in front of several million readers . |
| 27 | The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place . |
| 28 | The buyers nevertheless claimed under the first contract damages based on the difference between the contract price and market price on the date of the breach . |
| 29 | But the parties are not confined to the first perspective . |
| 30 | John Charlton had not moved since the first encounter . |