Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [vb pp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | A 7 day tour to Poland , open to CIT members , spouses , and colleagues has been arranged for the first week of July , boasting a programme , both transport orientated and cultural . |
2 | In a few areas a detailed election manifesto has been adopted at the first meeting of a newly elected council as a basis for council policies ( Fudge 1981 ) . |
3 | Will it be possible to finish the 12 — 2 guinea plates the 2nd thirty small ones and the thirty of which the first ground has been done by the first of April next — or the end of March — give opinion on this … ? ’ |
4 | This has been done in the first instance through joint ventures with Ladbrokes and Bass respectively , though Horizon also owned and operated hotels in its own name . |
5 | Ehrlichman and Weinberger criticise the emphasis that has been placed on the first eye movements occurring after a question has been asked and the consequent ignoring of movements which occur prior to or during presentation of a particular item . |
6 | THE draw has been made for the first round of this year 's Harp Masters International Hockey tournament , run by Annadale Hockey club . |
7 | But how do you find out about whether a planning application has been made in the first place ? |
8 | It has been compared to the first ascent of Everest . |
9 | The lesson was learned , and in subsequent years a photocall has been organized for the first day , when the Prince and Princess pose sweetly for the cameras on the understanding that thereafter the media will go home so the two can holiday in peace . |
10 | Now , after quite a shore period , the locomotive has been steamed for the first time and is almost in working order . |
11 | At the time of writing , funding has been secured for the first five years ; it is to be hoped that the data will prove so useful that it will become indispensable to British social science . |
12 | In the post-1945 period , national liberation has been seen as the first line of rebellion against capitalism . |
13 | Delivery of RAF Spitfires to the Mediterranean by the Wasp has been cited as the first large-scale act of co-operation between British and American forces during World War Two . |
14 | The Railway 's annual spring Enthusiasts ' Weekend — normally held two weeks before Easter — has been moved for the first time in its 20-year history . |
15 | According to a recent Hollywood Reporter piece , the Runt is currently labelless but has been working on a project which has been hailed as the first interactive album . |
16 | The agreement has been hailed as the first of a series intended to tackle the chronic industrial pollution problems of eastern Germany . |
17 | In the intervening year , nothing has been done to right the wrongs of the decade , so what profit has been gleaned in the first year of the new leadership of the Conservative party ? |
18 | But a new rate of ( 20% ) twenty per cent has been introduced for the first ( 2,000 ) two thousand pounds of taxable income . |
19 | Whilst this process may , for this model , take up to 20 iterations to achieve an acceptable assembly from a disjointed starting point , once an association has been accomplished for the first time and , if only small disturbances are imposed , re-association may be accomplished in as few as three attempts . |
20 | Evidence collected by a new computer-controlled water monitoring and sampling device developed by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has been used for the first time to prosecute a company for polluting a waterway . |
21 | However , if every seventh word has been deleted in the first few sentences , then every seventh word must be deleted for the rest of the test . |
22 | It is probably not an exaggeration to say that far more work has been published on the first type of task than on the second . |
23 | A Consultant 's Register has been published for the first time , and the Technical Information Service successfully relaunched as the Construction Information File . |
24 | It culminated in the sabbatarian excesses of English and Scottish Puritanism and the Sunday legislation , much of which has been relaxed since the First World War . |
25 | This morning it was starts from the state boat ; many a race has been won in the first hundred yards or so , and Oxford , as always , are coached and prepared for everything . |
26 | According to Advanced Micro , the 210 has proven such a popular architecture that it has been chosen for the first speed and power upgrades . |
27 | Gastric acid has been shown during the first hour of life in both term and preterm infants of more than 32 weeks gestation . |
28 | The new items adopt a structured problem-based approach to the many different marital difficulties that people face , and information on the cultural and religious framework , which may affect options open to ethnic minority clients , has been included for the first time . |
29 | The simple harmonic and Morse oscillators are thus particular cases of this general anharmonic oscillator for which the power series has been truncated after the first and second terms , respectively . |
30 | Conversely , to enter the chemical laboratory envisaged in 1606 by Andreas Libavius — a respectable Lutheran humanist , critic of the Paracelsians , and author of what has been described as the first chemical textbook — would be to enter an open house in which the products of the furnace were investigated with a sense of responsibility for the welfare of one 's fellow men . |