Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gloomsters have been proved wrong on the first part of the operation . |
| 2 | A Corporate Finance Engagement Letter should be obtained from every client for whom corporate finance activities are to be undertaken prior to the first engagement . |
| 3 | In contrast to the comments ( above ) on pavements with four pairs of interlaced squares , this mosaic can be considered one of the first examples of a distinctive saltire arrangement : an arrangement which has pelta-urns ( with bases facing away from the central roundel ) on each arm . |
| 4 | MOSCOW — Huge amounts of computerised information held in Soviet data bases are to be made available for the first time to Western research , it was agreed at a conference for Western and Eastern scientists here , writes Justin Arundale . |
| 5 | He it was who rescued a number of precious unpublished test recordings from private collections , and caused them to be made available for the first time . |
| 6 | I had imagined that if the Secretary of State was interested in doing his job properly he would have said to us , ’ Mr. Stoner 's opinion will be made available to the first meeting of the Select Committee . ’ |
| 7 | It would be a prime requirement that the airspeed and behaviour at the stall be determined prior to the first landing . |
| 8 | While one cuts with the peat iron [ Tarisker ] , the other stands catching the foot-square slabs of wet peat which are thrown flat for the first stage of drying . |
| 9 | Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter . |
| 10 | Many of the people who were made redundant during the first wave of financial job losses in 1990 have found work in other fields . |
| 11 | Birds , seals and other wildlife were found dead in the first days of the disaster , and fishing and salmon farming were banned in a large area . |
| 12 | A few days before he resigned from West Ham , the club had been beaten 6–0 in the first leg of a crunch match against Oldham . |
| 13 | They , the birds , are mentioned first in the first verse when Mac Caig is talking about Saint Francis as a ‘ talker with birds ’ . |
| 14 | He had been held scoreless for the first twenty-five minutes of the game but certainly went to town afterwards ! |
| 15 | A close working relationship with John Wilkinson , the club chairman , developed over the last five years , and Ashcroft 's position was considered one of the First Division 's safest . |
| 16 | With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , however , a corpus of Essene material was made available for the first time , and it is now possible to assess the Essenes on their own terms . |
| 17 | Somervillians have never lacked energy , as was made clear by the first of ourJills of All Trades , Ruth Spalding . |
| 18 | Hanrott was made responsible for the first ‘ Council ’ visits , at which they saw some quite ‘ unsuitable environments ’ , information from these visits being fed at first into the subject boards rather than into the Council itself' . |
| 19 | In 1782 Warltire was elected one of the first forty-five honorary members of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , the others including such illustrious men as Antoine Lavoisier , Alessandro Volta , and Benjamin Franklin . |
| 20 | Manor 's defence was kept busy in the first half and the Alton side held a slender 1–0 lead at the interval . |