Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Soviet trade with the West expanded rapidly in the first half of 1989 , showing a 9 per cent growth in volume , while imports grew by about 11 per cent . |
| 2 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 3 | Although officials remain resolutely silent , there is a widespread belief that the British Government will authorise the colony 's administration to go ahead with the first batch of mandatory repatriations this week . |
| 4 | Skipper Chris Dickson feathered the mainsail up the first weather leg so that navigator Erle could jury rig a new mainsheet arrangement before the load came back on the boom as the boat bore away around the first mark . |
| 5 | The Association meets regularly on the first Friday of each month , at the RE Centre , when mass is said by our chaplain , Fr. |
| 6 | Comparing the ‘ Charlie Parker Story ’ directly with Vogue 's 14-track ‘ Original Bird ’ release ( and in effect listening critically for the first time ) , I found the Denon ‘ sound recovery ’ system somewhat inconsistent in places . |
| 7 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 8 | Their protests gained renewed impetus in the suffrage struggles immediately before the First War . |
| 9 | Its mouth curled upwards for the first time . |
| 10 | DEMAND for senior executives to fill top positions in British industry jumped sharply in the first quarter , according to a survey of the unadvertised executive jobs market by outplacement agency InterExec . |
| 11 | The action begins tomorrow with the first of two qualifying rounds , and as usual , the field is studded with quality . |
| 12 | Assuming , as I am , the correctness of the Croydon decision , there can be no doubt that the appeal committee dealt correctly with the first stage . |
| 13 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 14 | The Christian theme occurs right from the first line with the word ‘ ministry ’ and the hidden word ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 15 | The need to deal effectively in the first instance in communications with Council Tax payers , both face to face and in writing , and hence the seniority of staff required for this purpose . |
| 16 | It used to be argued that party strife declined rapidly under the first two Georges ; that political stability was finally established under Sir Robert Walpole during the 1720s , and by 1733 , as Plumb once put it , " the two-party system was at an end " . |
| 17 | The era ended abruptly in the first two years of the 1980s , when almost every astronomical satellite reached the end of its life . |
| 18 | Also , because the rats ’ behaviour changed immediately after the first reinforcement trial , Tolman argued that the results obtained could only occur if the rats had earlier developed a cognitive map , that is the mental representation of the particular special arrangement of the maze . |
| 19 | The cathedral suffered grievously in the First World War , being bombarded mercilessly for four years , during which time it suffered 300 direct hits . |
| 20 | Herbert ( 1978 ) suggests that conference interpreting began only during the First World War , while before that international conferences were held in French . |
| 21 | The alarm bells started to ring when flanker , Alan Brown dived over to score the opening try midway through the first half . |
| 22 | Is it possible for a person to move smoothly through the first three levels of understanding and still leave out something essential ? |
| 23 | Exclusively available from L'Oréal salons , we 've 1000 sets of shampoo and conditioner to give away to the first 1000 names drawn from the postbag on October 31 ( 100 for subscribers only ) . |
| 24 | So , although the Bolsheviks did not start the inflationary process , they were unable to stop it either , despite their wish to do so in the first few months of Soviet rule . |
| 25 | The Hong Kong economy performed poorly in the first half of 1990 , but not nearly as badly as in the second half of 1989 when it had suffered from the international reaction to the upheavals in China . |
| 26 | The two cells first grow inward across the midline following a pathway pioneered earlier by the first neurons in the ganglion , Q 1 and Q2 . |
| 27 | There seemed only one answer , for India had seldom boasted fast bowlers of sufficient quality to operate much beyond the first half-dozen shine-removing overs before the spinners came on for the rest of the innings . |
| 28 | William Blogg , whose brewery disappeared just before the First World War , is one of a whole host of East End brewers whose names live on , even if they no longer brew . |
| 29 | Each of these clear days of scattered apple and white pear tree blossom moved inexorably towards the first day when they set out without books and came home in the evening showing the pink or blue papers they had tested themselves against in the examination hall . |
| 30 | Worried parents have attended a special clinic to learn more about the first signs of meningococcal meningitis . |