Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [conj] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also submitted that it was essential that a jury should reach a rational conclusion by a rational process of thought , and he further submitted that it was wholly irrational for them in effect to hold that the first appellant did not act in concert with the second appellant , but that the second appellant acted in concert with the first appellant . |
| 2 | Commenting on this , Sebba and Wootton ( 1984 : 8 ) write : The switch to Creole occurs before the first instance of " build " is " and this could be taken as a direct quotation of the man 's words , rendered in Creole because he is apparently a Jamaican : cf. |
| 3 | The quality of being meaningful and unified , which the second passage has but the first passage lacks , is known as coherence . |
| 4 | At half-past ten , the sound of voices below the library window indicated that the first lesson of the day was over and that coffee was about to be served . |
| 5 | The group laughed as the first strains of a Hungarian pop group wailed from the hall . |
| 6 | This process continues until the first person arrives back in the front . |
| 7 | The draft Approved Document also contains a provision requiring that the first occupants of a dwelling must receive instructions on how to look after the smoke detector system that has been installed . |
| 8 | But the new Queen 's champion admitted that the first meeting ever between the two players dominated by heavy serves and containing few spectacular winners was a poor spectacle for a 6,000 crowd which included Princess Diana . |
| 9 | The legend goes that the first church was started at the bottom of the hill , but during the night the walls were thrown down . |
| 10 | The battle was fought out in three short Parliaments which met between 1679 and 1681 , after which politics was driven out-of-doors for the rest of the reign , whilst during the period of the Tory Reaction a successful campaign of legal recriminations taken against the political enemies of the Court meant that the first Whigs as a political movement were almost destroyed . |
| 11 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 12 | She wanted to do this on her own and the therapist suggested that the first session took place 2 days later to assess her progress . |
| 13 | The court held that the first defendant 's negligence was a cause of the death and he was held 25% responsible . |
| 14 | Yet , when will he and others of like mentality realise that the first rule of the road must always be to give priority to unprotected people , whatever the circumstances ? |
| 15 | Faulty learning occurs because the first instances of it were inappropriately reinforced by the parents or other caretakers of the child . |
| 16 | The Newton Personal Digital Assistants from Apple Computer Inc will be built around the Advanced RISC Computing Ltd ARM610 RISC : Apple says that the first version of Newton will be out early next year , and will be an electronic notepad , able to record and recognise handwriting and to straighten out rough sketches ; Cambridge-based Advanced RISC Machines , which is owned by Acorn Computers Plc , Apple and VLSI Technology Inc says that Newton has an object-oriented executive and that the memory manager in the ARM610 provides specific support for object-oriented data handling . |
| 17 | But the news broadcast after the first missile attack failed to mention it . |
| 18 | The Securities and Futures Authority proposes that the first £5m of any levy on its members would continue to be raised on a weighted , registered persons basis , taking account of the amount of business conducted with private clients . |
| 19 | The game continues until the first player is back at the front . |
| 20 | If British Rail feels that the first stage of the channel tunnel rail link to Stratford and King 's Cross does not offer immediate opportunities for a freight route , there is something seriously amiss in its thinking . |
| 21 | Secretary reported that the first set of four photographs had proved to be very popular and sales to date had covered costs . |
| 22 | Remarkably , Halifax 's performance meant that the First Division leaders Wigan , 66-0 winners in a 12-try romp at Barrow , were not the day 's top scorers . |
| 23 | Seán Mac Stíofáin indicates that the first time the leadership discussed the civil rights movement was when |
| 24 | Accordingly he submitted that if the jury accepted that the first appellant had murdered the deceased , then it necessarily followed that they should have acquitted the second appellant . |
| 25 | Moving the suspension of standing orders at the next meeting of Cork County Council , Councillor Gene Fitzgerald TD complained that the first council members heard of the planning decision was when they read of it in the morning paper . |
| 26 | Russian radio reported that the first group of 14th Army troops had left Moldova on May 26 , and that airborne units stationed in Kishinev would withdraw between June 15 and Sept. 1 . |
| 27 | As the linker needle comes back with the second stitch in its hook , the latch of the linker needle closes and the first stitch goes over the latch of the linker needle and is cast off . |
| 28 | The recent greening of the world means that the first clover of summer is greeted with an enthusiasm previously reserved for the cuckoo . |
| 29 | Now while there is no reason to doubt that the first kind of structure contributes in one way or another to the effect of the poem , it can be and has been argued ( Riffaterre 1966 : 206ff. ) that the second is in most cases irrelevant to the text 's poetic status , since it tends to fall well below the ordinary reader 's level of consciousness . |
| 30 | Compare the bank 's tenacity at taking away allowances with its reluctance to give salary increases when the first sign of adversity appears . |