Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] by the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do the same for the submatrix bordered by the first row and column , and so on , so that finally we reach the unit matrix as the canonical form for A. It is to be observed that , since in using elementary operations I ( i , j ) , I(k) , I(l) on A we are effectively at each stage multiplying together determinants neither of which vanishes , the reduction of A to I must be possible when A is on-singular . |
| 2 | On 3 March 1987 the originating summons was amended by adding the seventh and eighth plaintiffs , and on 19 March 1987 it was further amended to seek accounts of all transactions entered into , and of all dealings with the property of the plaintiffs by the first defendant , and of all moneys received by or payment made by the first defendant or by the second or third defendants , and an inquiry whether any sums were due from the first defendant to the plaintiffs . |
| 3 | THE government 's programme of forcibly repatriating Vietnamese boat people will proceed despite the international outcry provoked by the first removal operation on Monday night . |
| 4 | He was struck by a vehicle driven by the first defendant . |
| 5 | Matthew 's theory drew upon a long tradition of applying evolutionism to the problems of biogeography begun by the first Darwinians . |
| 6 | What the second stage needed was not a distribution , such as a successful general adoption of the co-operative form of organisation would have prompted , of the wealth created by the first stage , but rather an accumulation and concentration . |
| 7 | The stability of biliary cholesterol verified by the first appearance of cholesterol monohydrate crystals ( nucleation time ) , rather than the cholesterol saturation index ( CSI ) , is considered to be a better index for differentiating bile metastability . |
| 8 | The mortgagees had been advised by their own solicitors that the charge executed by the first appellant in September was ineffective and they therefore sought a further mortgage to be executed by both appellants . |
| 9 | Experience convinced her that the man who was drunk would lecture them on the futility of dying , a theme prompted by the first mention of hospices . |
| 10 | The distinction implied by the first question — transducing versus flow visualization — is not complete . |
| 11 | She accepted the first price offered by the first jeweller , not realizing that she could probably have raised fifty per cent more money by bargaining or trying other shops . |
| 12 | British fascism originated in several distinct and contradictory reaction to the long-term decline of Britain and the dislocation caused by the First World War . |
| 13 | Dierdriu had maintained the legend begun by the first Wolfkings , but her granddaughter would create a new legend altogether . |
| 14 | The opening day scene on the Marton route in 1901 , where nobody looks very happy , which might be a reflection of the rough ride given by the first car ! |
| 15 | A start at controlling health care costs , to be followed up later when a commission chaired by the First Lady , Hillary Rodham Clinton , makes its recommendations . |
| 16 | Turning a quarter circle away from the mosque towards the setting sun , through the early evening heat haze I could see the distant silhouette of the Qutab Minar , the tower of victory built by the first Sultan immediately after he had driven the Hindus from Delhi in 1192 . |
| 17 | His second example involved a transhipment bill of lading issued by the first carrier and damage or loss occurring on the second carrier 's vessel . |
| 18 | I know that deep within these creatures , these poor abandoned creatures , are the seeds of the Lost Enchantment , the thin , almost-dead bewitchment spun by the first sorcerers . |
| 19 | A word formed by the first letter of a group of words , eg NATO — North Atlantic Treaty Organisation , SALT = Strategic Arms Limitation Talks . |
| 20 | Experimental evidence on both processes is patchy , but there is at least one impeccable candidate for a black hole formed by the first mechanism , namely Cygnus X-1 . |
| 21 | Rather more ideologically committed to a new form of politics were those for whom anti-semitism was seen as the reason for the changes in British and European society engendered by the first World War . |
| 22 | Under police guard the members of the new union tried to break through the picket line formed by the first union , with fierce clashes taking place … |
| 23 | ( Tolstoy , in War and Peace , gives a brilliant account of the insecurity engendered by the first occasion of a new type of experience in his description of Pierre 's induction into membership of a masonic brotherhood . ) |
| 24 | ( 3 ) In May 1983 B.M.T. to which the application signed by the first plaintiff and altered by the third defendant had been submitted , offered C.M.C. a loan of £185,500 on the security of the bakery . |
| 25 | The property of single-peakedness exhibited by the first model has been shown ( Black , 1948 ) to ensure existence of a voting equilibrium . |
| 26 | But the second proposal seems to contemplate an expanded role for judicial review as a way of controlling government activity ; and increasing the sources of information available to the courts in the way contemplated by the first proposal might so change perceptions of the judicial role that it , too , would lead to an expanded conception of the role of judicial review . |
| 27 | Women 's world could therefore be seen as inferior to the higher cultural activities of men in the public domain — a fact recognized by the first century AD Jewish philosopher Philo who in his writings made much play of this gender-differentiated opposition between the public and private domains . |
| 28 | Finally , the national forum recommended by the first Haycocks Report should perform the same function for courses for part-time teachers . |
| 29 | The solicitor contacted by the first defendant and Mr. Morgan for the purposes of the new will , Mr. Burgess , concluded that the deceased lacked testamentary competence and that he should not proceed in the matter . |
| 30 | ( The Supreme Court had held flag-desecration to be a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment , but this bill provided for only a $25 fine in cases of assault upon flag-burners . ) |