Example sentences of "the first with " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , as we shall see , this evidence has proved largely illusory , but the presentation of the gens stage as a real historical one presents Engels right from the first with the theoretical difficulties which were to plague Marxist anthropology afterwards . |
| 2 | Mrs Dyer was lodged in Reading Gaol , where she made two abortive attempts at suicide , the first with a pair of scissors with which she tried to stab herself ; thwarted , she then tried to strangle herself with her boot laces , with no greater success . |
| 3 | The first with improved riding qualities was car 10 , which was painted in a new red-and-cream livery in 1975 . |
| 4 | Then I have a '60 Strat , one of the first with the rosewood necks , and it has this amazing sound . |
| 5 | But for the quick thinking of the two officers — the first with his hunch about north Wales , the second with her code breaking — we might have lost the whole team . ’ |
| 6 | Ever since the two disastrous meetings she had had recently about Matilda , the first with the Headmistress and the second with the dreadful Mr and Mrs Wormwood , Miss Honey had been thinking a great deal about this child and wondering how she could help her . |
| 7 | Rupert Murdoch owns a newspaper in Fiji which claims to be ‘ the first with the world 's news ’ . |
| 8 | Informix is the first with a DRDA product , it introduced Informix-Gateway for DRDA last month ( UX No 428 ) . |
| 9 | Informix is the first with a DRDA product : it introduced Informix-Gateway for Distributed Relational Database Architecture last month . |
| 10 | It is said to have the largest on-chip cache in the industry — two thirds of its 3.1m transistors are dedicated to the cache — and claims to be the first with complete on-chip multi-processing . |
| 11 | Chepstow is unusual among British castles in that it was built largely of stone from the first with no primary timber phase . |
| 12 | The second exercise is a repeat of the first with some significant changes in the rules and the use of Figure 11.2 . |
| 13 | In a fifth instance , given in ex.5d , the cellos , again in the tenor clef , have the combined angular and linear theme the first with strokes , the second with dots while the basses , in bar 383 , give out the fourth of the five themes , with strokes in pure accentual meaning , as proved by the third minim that is tied to its neighbour . |
| 14 | New Brighton has been the setting for seven British championship events , but next week 's spectacle will be the first with European involvement . |
| 15 | The second half began in the manner of the first with Tranmere in control . |
| 16 | I mean it , it no , he was one of the first with the shrewd sort of business sense |
| 17 | The second half was played at just as frantic pace as the first with both sides looking dangerous on the attack , but Abingdon looking more solid in defence . |