Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eunice 's false understanding of the situation adds light humour to the first scenes although we realise that Blanche is trying to already make herself out as someone better than everyone else in the play . |
| 2 | We plough through the inches thick green gunge that covers several miles of the first stretch , jokes about lawnmowers and gardening over Easter . |
| 3 | The decision to proceed alone is based on the success of the prototype 's flight test programme and strong customer interest , says Pilatus , which holds paid options on the first 27 aircraft and is now accepting only firm orders for the $1.8 million PC-12 , with performance and delivery schedule guarantees . |
| 4 | More remarkable than his treatment of the mistress as recipient or subject-matter of the sonnets is Shakespeare 's treatment of the man who fills that role in the first 126 poems . |
| 5 | Another winner of its three heats , Watabid ( 10 metres ) also faces a stiff challenge against one of the remaining back markers , Ah Jaycee , which wears the stripes and receives three metres in the first semi-final tonight . |
| 6 | The votes apportioned as provided in paragraph ( b ) above shall be totalled and the candidate receiving more than half of the votes shall be declared elected and if no candidate reaches this total on the first ballot further ballots should be held on an elimination basis . |
| 7 | The company sees campus-wide backbones as the first wide-scale implementation of the technology , followed by Asynchronous Transfer Mode to the desktop . |
| 8 | The Box Office opens 15 minutes before the first performance each day and closes 15 minutes after the start of the last performance . |
| 9 | The managerial implications are profound in many ways but above all a management framework must be created which facilitates such relationships in the first place and then allows them to flourish . |
| 10 | That means political unpopularity for the first and the wrath of the ERM for the second . |
| 11 | The present chapter gives further consideration to the first of these apparent inconsistencies . |
| 12 | In Fig. 6.12(a) , for example , a sequence of variable-duration delays gives precise timing of the first three steps , which are used to accelerate the motor to a stepping rate defined by the system clock frequency . |
| 13 | Farming history was made when a bunch of 10 Charolais steers grossed £17,000 in the first satellite-television auction of prime meat on the hoof . |
| 14 | It receives concrete expression in the first instance in the proletarian control of industry , in general — in the proletarian leadership of the entire economic life of the country . |