Example sentences of "[unc] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recruit Cosmos , once the centre of a political scandal , has through its finance affiliate been lending money to would-be buyers of its flats at only 0.6% annual interest for the first five years . |
| 2 | Heinrich Harrer 's classic account of the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in 1938 , The White Spider , is to be published in a radically revised and updated version later this year . |
| 3 | Convinced in the summer of 1906 that the government 's contemptuous dismissal of the First Duma might ignite renewed revolutionary action , they did their best in the Vyborg Manifesto to channel any such protest into passive resistance . |
| 4 | Grunte , to whom the suggestion had not been made , and who had not been invited to Archer 's bloody party in the first place , watched the novelist return to his table . |
| 5 | RODGRIGO DE TRIANO may consolidate owner Robert Sangster 's enviable position as the first Classics approach by winning the Singer & Friedlander Greenham Stakes at Newbury today and looks a must for those seeking to land the £80,000-plus Tote Jackpot pool . |
| 6 | Margaret came to Scottish Amicable in February 1948 after being with Cadbury 's Scottish depot for the first part of her career . |
| 7 | Causing such changes to happen was not Ronald Reagan 's real agenda in the first place . |
| 8 | Later in the year proposals for specific research projects and the Centre 's overall programme for the first three years will be drawn up . |
| 9 | Chief Executive Hazel Dudgeon , fronting the course 's annual preview for the first time , said : ‘ We have got back the two evening meetings ( 15 and 29 July ) we lost last year and now have six of these on our 17-strong programme . |
| 10 | Liverpool , whose trademark passing game was never in evidence in the white-hot Anfield atmosphere , rarely looked capable of pulling back Spartak 's two-goal advantage from the first leg . |
| 11 | The country 's current-account deficit for the first 10 months of the fiscal year also showed a fall of 27 per cent compared with the same period in 1989/90 . |
| 12 | As she returned the firm handclasp Lindsey 's smiling gaze for the first time took in the neat , wide-belted white dress , topped by a dark cardigan . |
| 13 | Debate began in the Sejm ( the lower house of parliament ) on Jan. 4 on the government 's provisional budget for the first quarter of 1992 , which included cuts planned by the previous administration of Jan Bielecki and continued reductions in state subsidies . |
| 14 | MIDDLESBROUGH 'S dismal display in the first Super Challenge Cup could shock boss Lennie Lawrence into a last-minute move on the transfer market . |
| 15 | Wedging itself in between Texas Instruments Inc 's announcement of the Tsunami Sparc chip on October 9 ( UX No 406 ) , and Sun Microsystems Inc 's expected introduction of the first Tsunami box on November 10 , MIPS Technologies Inc , now a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Graphics Inc , is due to upgrade its 64-bit R4000 chip to the R4400 this week with a major performance boost . |
| 16 | She felt angry , insignificant , and envious of her friend 's Celtic beauty for the first time . |
| 17 | Last week at the Sybase User Conference , Microsoft showed off a prototype 32-bit version of SQL Server designed to exploit NT 's multiprocessing architecture for the first time on a NCR 486 MP machine . |
| 18 | The Lancet 's sustained opposition to the first women doctors , the ‘ advance guard of the Amazonian army ’ as it dubbed them , was argued on the grounds that young ladies would be rendered indelicate , and by implication immoral , by attending lectures and dissections on human anatomy and pathology . |
| 19 | Phil DeFreitas , Lancashire 's other representative in the first Test , also faces a nervous wait , after leapfrogging Essex leftarmer Mark Ilott to play at Old Trafford when Alan Igglesden pulled out injured . |
| 20 | Gibson , who won her fifth successive Scottish title at Meadowbank last month but whose season has been ravaged by injury , faces an unknown quantity in Denmark 's Maiken Mork in the first round of the women 's singles . |
| 21 | Admission is based on the applicant 's academic record in the first two years . |
| 22 | The non inverting input of the first stage amplifier is connected via a resistor to a potentiometer linked across positive and negative voltage divider chains to provide an adjustable input offset . |
| 23 | Maybe , but there 's little doubt that England had missed Richards ' tight control in the first half . |
| 24 | The construct lacking the first intron hypersensitive sites was prepared by deleting a 1kb BalI-StuI fragment from the first intron of the -300bp construct . |
| 25 | The growth of GDP , which had averaged 5.4 per cent annual growth in the first half of the 1970s and 0.8 per cent between 1975 and 1980 , went into reverse , dropping on average 5.7 per cent a year over the period from 1981 to 1988 . |
| 26 | Using cumulative average residual methodology , they found that a portfolio of the recommendations showed a 0.7 per cent abnormal return during the first week after recommendation , and -0.8 per cent after 26 weeks ( with a standard error of 0.97 per cent ) . |