Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , imposing performance-based emoluments of this sort flies in the face of one major reason for regulation or public ownership in the first place . |
| 2 | Foals can suffer a variety of bacterial or viral infections in the first fourteen days of life . |
| 3 | All too often , students engage in study that only results in shallow or superficial learning of the first type — for example , the rote learning of names , dates , superficial factual data and characteristics that you hold in your short-term memory just long enough to pass an examination and that are then rapidly forgotten , because they have not been internalized — perhaps because our psyches know they are not of much use in the long run . |
| 4 | There was also a considerable amount of written work , with six written or practical assignments in the first term and a further 16 assignments in the rest of the course . |
| 5 | First , there is the single-subject course , variously labelled ( single honours , special honours , etc. ) which concentrates on the study of a single academic discipline ( e.g. mathematics , chemistry , economics , history , fine art ) after shedding some ancillary or subsidiary courses in the first or second year . |
| 6 | Thus many students would take a single , combined or ( more rarely ) a tripartite subject degree , with one or two ancillary or subsidiary subjects in the first two years , and some main subject options in the final year . |
| 7 | This would be caused by a faulty transistor or IC device in the first audio stage of the unit . |
| 8 | Despite the fall in September sales , the figures produced by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show that total sales in the first nine months , at 1,919,338 , are still 5 per cent up on the same period last year . |
| 9 | Suter , whose interests span car parts to haircare products , was heavily in demand after the group more than tripled profits in the first half . |
| 10 | Suter , whose interests span car parts to haircare products , was heavily in demand after the group more than tripled profits in the first half . |
| 11 | Commenting on its figures , LSI Logic Corp reports that net profit in the first quarter exceeded net in any single quarter in the company 's 12-year history ; it also surpassed total net profit in all of 1991 ; it said the improved financial results reflect a significant turnaround since it restructured its operations in the third quarter of 1992 . |
| 12 | But I saw torches moving , less powerful than lighted matches against the first crack of tarnished gold in the eastern sky . |
| 13 | Profound disappointment and frustration , however , awaited those — especially in Britain — who hoped that American involvement in the First World War might prove to be the first step towards an on-going partnership . |
| 14 | And if this is so we get the delightful result that instead of there being at least two radically different sorts of things in the world , sensory states and material objects , there is only one sort of thing , sensory states , and all putatively other sorts of thing are reducible to complexes of actual and possible things of the first sort . |
| 15 | There were ecstatic and emotional scenes at the first of NME 's ‘ Viva Eight ’ gigs in conjunction with the Spastics Society at London 's Town & Country Club on Tuesday night , when headliner Nick Cave assembled the surviving members of his legendary former line-up for a short set that comprised the classics ‘ Dead Joe ’ , ‘ Wild World ’ and ‘ Nick The Stripper ’ . |
| 16 | While happy enough to accept the Czechs ' omission of repeats in these earlier works , surely they were unwise to omit that of the exceptionally concise and concentrated exposition of the first movement of the Ghost , Op. 70 No. 1 . |
| 17 | Particular attention is being paid to the major Indian rebellions which occurred there in the late colonial period ( 1780 and 1814 ) , to the role of southern Peru in the overthrow of Spanish rule ( in 1824 ) , and to political , social , and economic developments in the first three decades after independence . |
| 18 | The rise of the international business schools over the last decades and the substantial increase in the numbers of Third World students in the universities and technical institutes of the First World have provided an ever-increasing pool of potential local employees for the TNCs , and recruitment is brisk . |
| 19 | Most of us experience ‘ Monday morning blues ’ — the feeling of tiredness and low spirits on the first day back at work after the weekend of rest . |
| 20 | Possibly the most trouble-free and profitable course in the first year is to grass-let part of the farm , on your own terms , thereby keeping the farm in work whilst leaving you free to get on with your development plans . |
| 21 | Not surprisingly , this finding has led to further speculation about the role of hostile , critical and overprotective parenting in the first onset of schizophrenia . |
| 22 | Compare this with the Hallidayan approach , where In China would be considered rheme in the second and marked theme in the first example . |
| 23 | A third building included a single-storey office which incorporated a design studio and dark room for the first time and enabled Laura to organize her print and pattern research . |
| 24 | In the postwar period , many social thinkers , reckoning the terrible cost in death and suffering of the wars and civil wars of the first half of the twentieth century , have turned their attention increasingly toward the possibilities and modes of peaceful change . |
| 25 | Now the other young man never believed any of his professed and contradictory reasons in the first place . |
| 26 | This section sets out the procedures and standard letters for the first stage of the marketing process . |
| 27 | ‘ A brooding cloud of evil , ’ the commentator had written , ‘ hovers over this dark and magnificent saga from the first page to the astonishing denouement . ’ |
| 28 | This school had enjoyed a brief period of success and national distinction in the first decade of the sixteenth century under the Mastership of John Stanbridge , who was well known when he migrated north from Oxford and whose Grammar was prescribed in the statutes of Manchester Grammar School . |
| 29 | The manufacture of chemicals such as lactic acid and citric acid during the first world war were probably the first examples to be labelled with the term ‘ biotechnology ’ . |
| 30 | And so , on the evening of 31 December 1962 , Jacob , Katherine and Leo waited in a living room decked in flowers and soft lights for the first guests to arrive . |