Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made a point of playing all my players in the first two days . |
| 2 | The delegates exchanged views on their experiences of the first six months of the pilot and considered the problems of offering general SVQs in a remote area , school-college partnerships , and the additional assessment , and produced a checklist of advice for new piloting centres ( see opposite ) . |
| 3 | In approximately one hour she would be getting her chops round the first succulent mouthful of Chicken Thallium . |
| 4 | More disasters followed , when it was found that the track had been laid slightly out-of-gauge , and all of the new cars 27–41 broke their axles in the first two weeks . |
| 5 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 6 | This study extends the work of a pilot study funded by ESRC ( C/00/23/2220 ) which examined the interaction between dear parents and their infants in the first 12 months of life . |
| 7 | The wind was taken out of her sails in the first two minutes when Oswin handed her a hundred pounds . |
| 8 | their percentages for the first three |
| 9 | Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period . |
| 10 | Voters left two dominant impressions as they queued in the hot sun — their determination to cast their ballots in the first free election since Germany began the European conquest of Namibia more than a century ago , and their orderly , disciplined behaviour in the searing heat . |
| 11 | On the strength of its hearings for the first eighteen applications the Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art duly stopped all the drawings and starred the group , thus indicating its special status only the sixth time this has ever happened . |
| 12 | Their hosts for the first few days , the Lord of the Isles , Sir Alexander Macdonald , and his wife Jane , a relative of Boswell 's , waited on the shore at Armadale , a small , dirty , sandy horseshoe of a bay , to greet them . |
| 13 | For nearly 70 minutes , Ireland were in contention , but their inability to convert pressure into points when playing with the wind behind their backs in the first half cost them dearly in the end . |
| 14 | The Fourth Gospel , for example , does not lie when it puts into the mouth of Christ words , and whole patterns of speech , which we do not find on His lips in the first three gospels . |
| 15 | In his speeches of the first two books Satan shows a tremendous vigour , a responsibility to his followers , an impenetrable spirit , heroic determination never to be weak and inactive and an attractive charm and sophistication in his poetic and commanding words . |
| 16 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 17 | Nicholas impeded his generals in the first campaigning season by taking the field personally , but in 1829 Ivan Dibich led the army deep into eastern Thrace while Paskevich , in the east , took Kars and Erzerum ( a campaign immortalized in prose by Aleksandr Pushkin ) . |
| 18 | Lord said he was at a loss to find room to play his shots in the first two games . |
| 19 | Mansell is looking to clinch a record-breaking ninth Grand Prix win in a season — and he underlined his determination yesterday by blasting clear of his chasers in the first qualifying session for tomorrow 's Portuguese race . |
| 20 | After scattering his drives throughout the first three rounds , he began to find the fairways . |
| 21 | Our losses in the first few months of 1943 were rather harmful , and would have been very damaging to morale ; something happened about that time which affected me very deeply . |
| 22 | Finally , in Fig. 2 a we plot with higher time resolution the residuals obtained from all our observations in the first 15 days after the glitch ; as in Fig. 1 c , the effects of the increased slowdown rate and the 265-day component have been removed . |
| 23 | But it might help your learners if they used some of your techniques for the first five or ten minutes of viewing . |
| 24 | So do n't , you get most of your marks for the first erm sort of twenty minutes writing usually unless your r I mean some of you might not get any marks at but I mean most of you will yeah you get most of your marks on the first twenty minutes . |