Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The high level of technical ability of Roman engineers , together with the well-developed commercial economy , meant that major civil engineering schemes could also be undertaken for the first time in the landscape . |
| 2 | of those employed in its industry would be sacked in the first year . |
| 3 | Problems should be referred in the first instance to the Supervisor . |
| 4 | The guide provides three simple checklists of what information should be given at the first appointment , during and at the end of the case . |
| 5 | Porter might wish to question how such groups with non-related SBUs came to be formed in the first place . |
| 6 | She had a violent impulse to summon Murphy and go at once to Trelorne and find Michael Swinton , and so strong was this inclination and the need to explain to him that she was personally so very Lyddy before she realized that such an action was only a perfect sequel in childish impetuosity to her former one of agreeing to be painted in the first place . |
| 7 | So unless we train ourselves to find alternatives then the better answers that might be hidden behind the first answer are lost to us . |
| 8 | The significance of the defeat on Monday of Ken Livingstone , Brent East MP , could only be calculated for the first time yesterday when the detailed voting figures were published . |
| 9 | It must be recalled in the first place that in Reg. v. Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , Ex parte Agegate Ltd . |
| 10 | Eight months earlier he made an abortive attempt for the title , then held by the Frenchman Franck Nicotra , only to be stopped for the first time in his professional career . |
| 11 | Tyrothricin can reasonably be regarded as the first antibiotic to be established as a therapeutic substance . |
| 12 | In so far as it explained his personal ideology to the French people , it may be regarded as the first speech of de Gaulle the politician , as opposed to de Gaulle the symbol . |
| 13 | If the final syllable is of this type , the stress will usually be placed on the first syllable . |
| 14 | Otherwise , the cursor will be placed at the first field which does not satisfy either of the above two conditions . |
| 15 | ‘ It is riveting stuff , especially to be treated to the first performance of a production that has attracted such rave reviews . |
| 16 | In retrospect it seems extraordinary that some of these could be prescribed in the first place . |
| 17 | In fact , we do run a project which looks at the ways science can be taught in the first school , which has been very surprising to me and many of my colleagues by what can actually be done with children in the ages of five to seven . |
| 18 | In fact , we do run a project which looks at the ways science can be taught in the first school , which has been very surprising to me and many of my colleagues by what can actually be done with children in the ages of five to seven . |
| 19 | It was an appalling mistake for the city to be attacked in the first place . |
| 20 | The whole child , within the context of family and school could be considered for the first time , not just the offence . |
| 21 | The preoccupation with the study of artefacts in isolation has a number of causes : the need to provide a chronology ; the absence of frameworks of thought by which grave-goods might be considered in the first instance as part of a mortuary ritual ; and , particularly from the nineteenth century , obsession with artefacts . |
| 22 | All applications will be considered in the first instance by one of six regional short listing panels , each regional panel will consist of a professional recruitment consultant and two people independent of government and I shall select those I wish to appoint as members of police authorities from the short list . |
| 23 | In these ‘ policed provinces ’ crime was to be reported in the first instance to headmen who would in turn notify the police of serious offences . |
| 24 | But the results of discontinued operations will be disclosed for the first time . |
| 25 | Conference participants agreed that regular meetings would be preceded in the first instance by a meeting in September of arms control experts who would finalize details of an agreement in time for a plenary session scheduled for October . |
| 26 | But child benefit is to be frozen for the first time in two years . |
| 27 | Having reviewed the authorities which dealt with the construction of restraint of trade clauses , the court applied the following rules : ( a ) The question of construction should be approached in the first instance without regard to the question of legality or illegality. ( b ) The clause should be construed with reference to the object sought to be obtained . |
| 28 | It will be noticed that these two items have common elements ; their time periods overlap , so that anyone doing a comprehensive study on the first half of the twentieth century would want both items if he was really very thorough , and the interest of Women 's Liberation students would be caught by the first item and by part of the second item . |
| 29 | The word " reasonably " should definitely be included in the first line of clause 2.4.2 . |
| 30 | Enquiries about the availability of these awards should be addressed in the first instance to the Secretary of the Bursaries Committee , Old College , South Bridge , EH8 9YL . |