Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the Controller of the Household who later established that no one in authority who was within a reasonable distance of the incident could have realised that the members of the first team of bearers , most of them worthy if nervous burghers of Kinsai , had doctored strung-up nerves with wine and k'miss to such an extent that they were no longer capable of reacting with either fortitude or common sense to the kind of diversions which were now to be expected as part of the rejoicing . |
| 2 | To take a single example , it is reported that the grandchildren of the first European colonists of North America already had eyelid-shapes tending towards those of the Red Indians , which were better adapted to looking out over vast spaces in bright sunlight . |
| 3 | It is nearly a quarter of a century — longer than the periods between the first and second world wars — since Labour last had the support of as many as four votes in 10 . |
| 4 | But the Americans , apart from the fact that they probably provided the guns in the first place , paid out $1m to persuade people to hand them in . |
| 5 | ‘ If the indicators for the first quarter remain flat or suggest a further fall in output , then the time will have come for a further cut in interest rates , by another 1 per cent or more . ’ |
| 6 | Such themes include expectations of life , employment and the problems of the first job , first love , relations with parents , divorced parents , step-parents , feelings of inadequacy , school and relationships with peers and teachers , and illness and grief . |
| 7 | Shannon , with their vaunted pack , were the favourites and the leaders in the first division of the All Ireland League . |
| 8 | No transfers fell under the defective provisions , and the amendments in the first of the 1993 Finance Bills will be effective from 17 July 1992 . |
| 9 | Less than half these Vs have had repeats , and the names of the first ascensionists are often a better guide to a route 's difficulty than its published grade . |
| 10 | It was clearly there by the eleventh century , and stands aligned on the stream and road and the alignments of the first unit . |
| 11 | The founder and leader of the BUF , Sir Oswald Mosley , was a self-conscious political spokesman for the ‘ lost generation ’ and the survivors of the first World War . |
| 12 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 13 | They had been underestimated , as the first Test proved , but the damage had been done and the attendances for the first two Tests were depressing . |
| 14 | But the victors of the first world war , without the gift of prophecy , set about with vigour to apply a great principle to the realms of the defeated empires : the Hohenzollerns , the Hapsburgs and the Ottomans . |
| 15 | ‘ Prices may drift down a little over the next two months , but the losses in the first quarter should be wiped out with similar gains over the next few months , ’ said Mr John Wriglesworth , property analyst at stockbrokers UBS Phillips & Drew . |
| 16 | Comparison of the CONVEX-91 west section ( Fig. 1 ) with data from Erika Dan ( 1962 ) and Knorr ( 1983 ) in a similar fashion ( but on a 0.25° latitudinal grid ) shows that there has been marked cooling since 1962 , averaging -0.42°C , whereas since 1983 there has been no change , presumably because the effects of the first renewal of LSW had already reached the Irminger Basin . |
| 17 | B While the legends of the First Age are a ‘ calque ’ , then , their resemblance to a known pattern directs us primarily to difference from that pattern ; the elvishness of the elves is meant to reflect back on the humanity of man . |
| 18 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 19 | The livret does not say whether the oboes in the first entrée are the same performers as the harmonie rustique that accompanies the récit , but for reasons having to do with economy of personnel and continuity in the staging , it seems likely that they were . |
| 20 | So , I think we should say we are sceptical , and I think the paper puts it correctly er , we are sceptical of whether the reforms of the first consortium in fact , is going to meet the needs in terms of new health area and I know that time will come , they 're talking about the lot , it 's gon na wonderful and that the our economies should get all I can say is that the likelihood is the only f the area committee er , so that residents can comment managers , but since we 've already had a nine hundred percent increase in senior management in the health service in the past five years up from nine hundred to over ten thousand at a cost of fifty to two hundred and fifty million pounds I 'm rather sceptical about that one as well ! |
| 21 | Its main function will be to ascertain whether the results of the first investigation would appear as firm to another team going over the same ground . |
| 22 | When the results of the first ballot were announced Thatcher was in Paris attending meetings for the signature of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and of the Charter of Paris for a New Europe [ see pp. 37838-39 ] . |
| 23 | As soon as the parents of the first baby contacted health service bosses the parents of the second were told . |
| 24 | However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes . |
| 25 | However , the Afro-Caribbean communities themselves have continued to grow , as the migrants of the first generation have settled and had families of their own . |
| 26 | The incident provided excitement and argument for some weeks in Huaiwiri , and much work for Salah Muhammad , even though the girls of the first cohort were nearing the end of their course . |
| 27 | In 22 years , croplands in Costa Rica lost 60% of their calcium and 25% of their magnesium even though the fields in the first year were higher than the surrounding forest in these ions , through ash input . |