Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | One lawyer cited one of the first such cases to be heard in Scotland : ‘ At one point the tribunal took the case by the scruff of the neck and told the claimants to put in their claim within 14 days and gave the other side the same amount of time for their defences . |
| 2 | She told Susan about her encounter when she gave her the humbugs , and the elder sister seemed interested for the first time that evening . |
| 3 | Financial compensation became available for the first time for criminal injuries ; the community service order raised hopes as an alternative to custody ; and an elaborate system of parole , later greatly expanded , was instituted . |
| 4 | Council goes public for the first time |
| 5 | Should United beat Forest and then go on to win the championship , the UEFA Cup place will go to the team finishing third in the First Division , sparking off a League scramble between Manchester City , Sheffield Wednesday , Liverpool and Arsenal . |
| 6 | Because the accident went unmonitored during the first few vital hours and days , certain statistics will never be available . |
| 7 | Referring to Western society Gerth and Mills state that life chances include ‘ Everything from the chance to stay alive during the first year after birth to the chance to view fine arts , the chance to remain healthy and grow tall , and if sick to get well again quickly , the chance to avoid becoming a juvenile delinquent and very crucially , the chance to complete an intermediary or higher educational grade ’ . |
| 8 | The reconstruction of all the objects could not be completed ( this was later achieved by Bernard Rice and Ahmed Youssef Moustafa ) because of Stewart 's appointment as supervisor of technical education in Palestine in 1930 , but his name remains connected with the first attempt in Egyptian archaeology to restore objects which the loss of wood reduced to a mass of precious metal and faience components . |
| 9 | Lotus views this as the first step in providing intergroup capabilities for applications like spreadsheets . |
| 10 | I watched him jog off , the head held high for the first twenty yards , to promote oxygenation , then tucked in low as he measured out the rhythm of his pace . |
| 11 | Another option is to create a second segment ring similar to the first and reverse it , or it can be attached to a vertical ring if depth is desired . |
| 12 | Her parents have done well ; her father became one of the first Afro-Caribbean councillors in inner London . |
| 13 | The ultimate clinical course of the colitis became evident during the first year of the study and there was no difference between the one year analysis and the final analysis ( Table II ) performed after a mean follow up of 2.8 years in the placebo group and 3.0 years in the cyclosporin group . |
| 14 | It makes far more sense to do two for the first day , then you can judge how many you can get through in a day from those two . |
| 15 | So , up we go the road narrows straight past the first left , there is n't a sign for Monkey Island at all . |
| 16 | The bank says it expects its new purchase to break even in the first year and to be operating at a profit of $150m-200m a year over the following three years . |
| 17 | The drawings in large part complement those in the first catalogue with more examples by Andrea del Sarto , Bernini , Castiglione , Correggio , Giulio Romano , Guercino , Leonardo , Nicolo dell'Abbate , Parmigianino , Peruzzi , Pontormo , Primaticcio , G.C. Procaccini , Raphael , Guido Reni , Savoldo , Titian and Veronese , Ingres , Poussin , Watteau , Jordaens , Rubens , Bloemaert , Goltzius , Rembrandt , C. Saftleven , Cranach , Dürer and Pencz . |
| 18 | Guided by the Chief Officer , the county became one of the first to introduce comprehensive schools of a new style , as well as fresh methods of teaching in its primary schools , and an immense explosion of organized music teaching all over the county . |
| 19 | Garden contains one of the first rockeries in Britain , which houses the earliest garden gnomes in England . |
| 20 | The eminent Spaniard took 7 at the first hole of the Novo Sancti Petri course , of which he is the architect , and finished his first round ten shots behind Ireland 's Des Smyth who had not seen the course until he stepped on to the first tee . |
| 21 | Like other theories of visual object recognition and word recognition , it concentrates on the processes which allow us to access already learned information , rather than enquiring how such information becomes stored in the first place . |
| 22 | That 's why the story sounded plausible in the first place — he knew enough about the operation to string us along . |
| 23 | We have to pay the , er , ninety two , three percentages , which were fifteen point two per cent and nine point eight per cent , so there 's an additional element there , and also we have to deal with erm , the additional cash that goes to grant maintained schools , who went grant maintained prior to the first of April nineteen ninety-two . |
| 24 | Carlsbad , California-based Stac Electronics Inc is meeting the challenge of the built-in data compression in MS-DOS 6.0 , formally launched by Microsoft Corp yesterday with its own new Stacker 3.1 for Windows and MS-DOS : the company says the new version achieves new levels of safety and ease of use by taking advantage of special operating system features available for the first time in MS-DOS 6.0 ; when loaded , it replaces Microsoft 's DoubleSpace , and integrates the Stacker LZS compression into the operating system , and Stac claims that unlike DoubleSpace , which is based on data compression technology licensed from Vertisoft Systems Inc , $150 Stacker 3.1 is also fully compatible with earlier MS-DOSes . |
| 25 | Seton 's forecast proved accurate in the first part , at least . |
| 26 | Under normal circumstances , understudies would be expected to attend all the rehearsals to familiarise themselves with the production , but , because Alex and Charles knew the play so well , they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off , which would save both them and their replacements the embarrassment of the early stumbling rehearsals while the newcomers were trying to memorise the lines . |
| 27 | Shortly after incitement to racial hatred became criminal for the first time in 1965 , for example , some commentators questioned whether Jewish persons were covered by the Act , pointing to the argument that the Jewish community has a religious rather than a racial identity . |
| 28 | My father was the head waiter at The Savoy , my mother opened one of the first milk bars in Soho , and my grandmother was a vegetable cook at London 's Park Lane Hotel . |
| 29 | The inevitability of death becomes real for the first time . |