Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 2 | A number of missions owe their existence to the initiative and financial support given in the first place by the Association . |
| 3 | This is still some disadvantage for the acquirer because it is more difficult to gain agreement to a change made subsequently than to a provision included in the first draft . |
| 4 | Mr Runciman said the first warning of problems came in August when it was realised that a major contract expected in the first half of the financial year was not going to materialise . |
| 5 | So I think if you 've got the creativity to write in the first place , you just need to change , not so much the instrument , but maybe change the tuning or the pitch . |
| 6 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
| 7 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 8 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 9 | An unused kitchen located on the first floor of this block , provided the necessary space for a new Staff Room , Kitchenette and Toilets , with supplementary Staff Toilets , Lockers and Resources Area being located in the link to the three storey block . |
| 10 | Here is the chance to see the direction alternating for the first time . |
| 11 | In particular , I am pleased to note a number of important developments stemming from action points in the first Plan . |
| 12 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 13 | A second legal mortgage can be created by leasing the land to the second mortgagee for a term longer by at least one day than the term limited to the first mortgagee . |
| 14 | In most cat books , the figure given for the first domestication of the cat is between 3,500 and 4,500 years ago . |
| 15 | Scepticism arose with the first television interviews . |
| 16 | Mansell was slow to start … and Williams team mate Ricardo Patrase got a flyer sneaking into the first bend ahead of the field . |
| 17 | The monument stands on the first cross-roads in front of the Carmel Road entrance to West Cemetery . |
| 18 | Do not allow the horse to wander into the first fence . |
| 19 | The elections were thus marked by a high rate of abstention : only 38.89 per cent of the electorate voted in the first round and 33.38 per cent in the second . |
| 20 | The trick is to prevent violence occurring in the first place . |
| 21 | The poet writes in the first person singular as a man talking to a loved one about the inevitable advent of his death , and yet the matter discussed here is not so much death as the gradual disappearance of life . |
| 22 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 23 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 24 | Shell manufacture in Blundell Street car shed during the First World War : 200,000 shells were produced here , largely by female labour , yielding a profit to the Town of £16,000 , which was used to pay for the erection of the Cenotaph war memorial on Princess Parade . |
| 25 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | I can see nothing in principle to prevent a contemnor applying to the first instance court to be released from custody on the ground that the failure to serve him with the committal order has kept him in ignorance of the contempts for which he has been imprisoned and that , in the circumstances , justice requires his release . |
| 27 | The government , I , I find it somewhat disappointing that having put in what I think was an extremely good bid , I think having had that bid accepted at the first stage by government on their shortlist , having then had the bid accepted by the European Union , with the populations really that we submitted to them , we now find that U K government are actually trying trade back some of that population , and , and area coverage of the bid , to be able to use some of that spare capacity which they would generate within the U K , within the European population figure elsewhere within the country . |
| 28 | Our study describes for the first time the secretory and circulatory changes occurring with the progression of pancreatitis induced by caerulein infusion . |
| 29 | The availability of sequence data from two mosaic genes of P.wickerhamii mitochondria allows for the first time a comparison of algal intron positions with those from fungi and liverwort . |
| 30 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |