Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [noun sg] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not so much because of the liver but because it spoils the effect of the first drink of the evening . ’ |
| 2 | There are promotions for David Hunt to the employment department , for Gillian Shephard to agriculture and for John Redwood , the Thatcherite and cerebral local-government minister who joins the cabinet for the first time as Welsh secretary . |
| 3 | A pseudo-variable which contains the address of the first byte that BBCBASIC(Z80) will not use . |
| 4 | The program starts by setting a register POINTER equal to TABLE , so the register contains the location of the first value in the table . |
| 5 | The third column contains the product of the first two , providing a merit number for each criterion and the sum of these is the overall merit number for the project . |
| 6 | The third column contains the product of the first two , providing a merit number for each criterion and the sum of these is the overall merit number for the project . |
| 7 | The rules are not always as simple s that , e.g. Classical Arabic has the stress on the first long syllable of the word , or on the first syllable if there are no long syllables in the word . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most familiar type of compound is the one which combines two nouns , and normally has the stress on the first element , as in : |
| 9 | It paves the way for the first national lottery in the UK since 1826 . |
| 10 | The home record storage area holds the address of the first synonym . |
| 11 | The main road still uses the bridge on the first tier and one can walk along the full length of the water channel ( 168 ) . |
| 12 | An infant uses the mouth as the first organ from which pleasure can be derived , through sucking at the breast and imbibing the warm milk . |
| 13 | In Scale 1 he protests that he speaks of more than he has directly experienced : In the second book which complements the material in the first , there is an often remarked upon change of tone : the reservation and distancing of Scale 1 is absent from the imagistic structures which embody his thought and insight in Scale 2 . |
| 14 | The vertical axis measures the actual return from the security and the horizontal axis measures the return on the first systematic factor . |
| 15 | This is a larger offset than seen for Vela , where the radio pulse leads the peak of the first γ -ray pulse by 0.126 0.006 phase . |
| 16 | Jim Magilton leads the team for the first time … |
| 17 | It includes the appointment of the first women to his Cabinet , Gillian Shephard and Virginia Bottomley , and cuts its average age from 54 to 51 . |
| 18 | Module 2 requires the learner for the first time to write in the language . |
| 19 | Hence it forms the subject of the first chapter of this Part . |
| 20 | There is no ‘ unfolding narrative ’ in a results programme that begins with an extremely reliable forecast of the outcome : it 's like a whodunnit in which the sleuth announces the dénouement on the first page . |
| 21 | Philip Stevens tells the story of the first ceremonial convoy through the Grand Junction , travelling north from Norton Junction where the new Canal joined the Grand Junction , up through the Watford Locks , obviously finished in great haste , through the tunnels at Crick and Husbands Bosworth , and down the Foxton Flight into the Leicester and Northants . |
| 22 | Eighteen months after the Coleman 's arrival iDAG , Sweden 's national afternoon newspaper , tells the story of the first American citizens to seek asylum in that country since the Vietnam war . |
| 23 | This key moves the cursor to the first field of the option . |
| 24 | PF1/5 — the ‘ START AGAIN ’ key moves the cursor to the first field of the option . |
| 25 | ( ii ) The minister of state in charge of the Prison Department ( not the Secretary of State himself ) then sets the date for the first review by the local review committee . |
| 26 | ( iv ) If a discretionary life sentence is passed , the minister of state sets the date for the first review strictly in accordance with the views of the judiciary , thus following the decision in Ex parte Handscomb , 86 Cr.App.R. 59 , and Mr. Hurd 's 1987 statement . |
| 27 | It is convenient to consider the third and fourth issues together : has the prisoner the right to make representations before the Secretary of State sets the date for the first review , and has he a right to be told the judicial view of his tariff ? |
| 28 | I conclude that the court should grant declarations in the following terms : ( 1 ) The Secretary of State is required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State sets the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence . |
| 29 | But of course it is the individual who attracts the photographer in the first place ( and in this instance we know the reverse to be true ) , and Yass is obviously keen to sharpen our awareness of the personal face-to-face aspect of these relationships . |
| 30 | The Institute collects the money on the first banking day in January each year . |