Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was needed was a simpler more speedy procedure and so Parliament intervened with the first Public Health Act in 1848 , the forerunner of modern public health legislation . |
| 2 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 3 | THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December . |
| 4 | As he had argued in Totem and Taboo , murder occurred in the first human groups , and the prohibition on killing came from the father . |
| 5 | In early February 1991 Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland had all begun negotiations on association agreements with the EC , which was offering a 10-year transition period to mutual free trade in two stages with asymmetrically large EC tariff cuts over the first five years in all sectors except agriculture , steel and textiles — the very areas where the three countries most desired access . |
| 6 | One hundred and twenty one patients with parenchymal cirrhosis presenting with the first variceal bleeding episode between June 1983 and December 1988 were studied . |
| 7 | Three of those eight variables ( excluding Pugh score ) independently influenced patient survival in the logistic regression analysis : encephalopathy , Prothrombin time and units of blood transfused within the first 72 hours ( current model ) . |
| 8 | We were never meant to fall for Satan but despite the poet 's efforts to make sure we do n't , we can not forget the magnificent figure encountered in the first two books . |
| 9 | For a £1 ‘ Each Way ’ bet , you stake £2. £1 of this goes on the same horse to win and the other £1 goes on the same horse to finish in the first three or four places , depending on how many runners there are in the race . |
| 10 | With hindsight , she says : ‘ I wished I 'd kept my mouth shut in the first three weeks . |
| 11 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
| 12 | John 's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness . |
| 13 | The Cordillera Real Mineral Programme is an in-depth metallogenic study following on the first four years ' reconnaissance . |
| 14 | One of the finest of the towers commemorates Gregorio di Gregorio , a third generation patrician of the early thirteenth century — heir to a succession established at the first high point of San Gimignano 's revived prosperity , in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 15 | The rate of progress made in the first 20 years was only achieved by the geologists being in the field most of the year . |
| 16 | His rise to prominence came during the first Dutch war ( 1652–4 ) . |
| 17 | Table 7.1 thus also supports the contention made in the first half hour of this chapter that short-term contract workers in the service sector are mainly " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 18 | ‘ I know it 's going to be a hard year and we 've still got a lot of work to do before the first European GP . |
| 19 | There is , for example , the familiar reference to ‘ playing at Creag ’ ( i.e. Creag-et ) in the wardrobe accounts for the first English Prince of Wales for March 1300 . |
| 20 | The Vancouver convention ( originated by Index Medicus and the National Library of Medicine ) , which states that articles contributed by more than six authors are cited in reference lists as the first six authors et al , offers an indirect method of assessing the stringency of criteria for selecting authors . |
| 21 | De Gaulle 's plan touched off the first major political storm of the postwar era , which rumbled on throughout the rest of the summer . |
| 22 | The Chancellor said in the first nine months of 1992–93 the Employment Service found jobs for 31,000 unemployed disabled people , 25 per cent more than in the same period of 1991–92 . |
| 23 | Ten per cent of out-of-work executives counselled by one firm received job offers in the first four weeks of last year , but for the corresponding period this year the figure rose to 16 per cent . |
| 24 | The first group consisted of the first 15 consecurive patients and 11 consecutive volunteers who were asked not to swallow any saliva ( they were asked to spit it out ) . |
| 25 | I would also like to know how to get the Van Halen and Brian May sounds , and also the type of sound used on the first Extreme album , during the songs Watching , Waiting and Mutha as the distortion on both sounds smoother and less buzzy . |
| 26 | The artist 's impression of Ivan 's majestic features and lavish robes captures the awe inspired by the first Grand Prince to be crowned ‘ Tsar ’ . |
| 27 | Specific activity was calculated from the slope of the linear incorporation of radioactivity observed during the first 25 min of the reaction . |
| 28 | Senate set up a working party under Professor Furmston , Council asked consultants Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte to look at the matter , convocation set up an ad hoc working group to respond to the first two reports , and the Vice-Chancellor produced a report for Council which drew together the common threads in all three . |
| 29 | If the originator has provided some issue identifiers in the SPR , it is sent to the manager of the package associated with the first valid issue referenced . |
| 30 | the package associated with the first valid Issue referenced |