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 | As he had argued in Totem and Taboo , murder occurred in the first human groups , and the prohibition on killing came from the father . |
| 3 | One hundred and twenty one patients with parenchymal cirrhosis presenting with the first variceal bleeding episode between June 1983 and December 1988 were studied . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His rise to prominence came during the first Dutch war ( 1652–4 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | De Gaulle 's plan touched off the first major political storm of the postwar era , which rumbled on throughout the rest of the summer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | the package associated with the first valid Issue referenced |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 15 | In late August 1832 the West India Merchants ' Committee still attacked as thoroughly improper the abolitionist practice of pledging parliamentary candidates to immediate emancipation and publishing pledge lists in the first post-reform election . |
| 16 | When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s , the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment . |
| 17 | The volume concludes with the first country-house poem published in English , an encomium of the countess 's estate at Cookham , in which the passing of the seasons suggests the ephemerality of patronage relations ; the walks bear ‘ summer Liveries ’ , and the prospect of hills and vales appears to ‘ preferre some strange unlook 'd for sute ’ only as long as their mistress is in residence . |
| 18 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 19 | The emphasis put on the respect shown by the first Ottoman rulers for the dervishes by granting them generous plots of land can also be interpreted as a denunciation of Bayezid 's policy of abolishing the rights on the and lands . |
| 20 | This ambiguous situation led to the first English clash with Spain . |
| 21 | The answer given to the first certified question was in line with those pronouncements , so even though Viscount Dilhorne was of opinion that the evidence fell short of establishing that Mr. Occhi had consented to the taking of the £6 it was a matter of decision that it made no difference whether or not he had so consented . |
| 22 | There was little need to hurry over breakfast , because even by nine o'clock there is barely enough light to see fine details , but shortly after nine the first starlings arrive for their morning meal , shoving and squabbling as they line up on the washing line to watch for the first human activity . |
| 23 | This is consistent with the observation that while there is a significant mortality associated with the first variceal bleed ( 20% Child 's B patients ) survival rate from subsequent bleeds is substantially better . |
| 24 | The moderate socialists still controlled the CEC elected by the first All-Russian Congress of Soviets in June , but acceded to demands that they summon a Second Congress which , following a series of regional soviet congresses , eventually met on 25 October . |
| 25 | And it was n't exactly the kind of thing endorsed by the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 26 | I looked down in misery tinged with the first real touch of hatred I had ever felt . |
| 27 | Gunmen opened fire , killing 14 occupants of the bus , including a Dane , Rasmussen Testerto , described in press reports as the first Western tourist to fall victim to the fighting in Sri Lanka ; a Japanese tourist had been shot dead in 1985 . |
| 28 | Who scored Charlton 's first goal on their return to The Valley is a logical sequel to the original poser : Who was the first player to score in the first live televised game in England ? |
| 29 | On Sunday , the racing starts with the Support class followed by the first Open race , then the second 125–200cc , the 600cc , the Junior ( 250–350–400cc ) followed by the second Classic race , and the Enkalon Grand Final which sees most of the riders on the line and McCallen out to repeat his win of last year . |