Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second main theme in the book is the question of the extent to which fossils can contribute data of value to systematics , and it is , of course intimately entwined with the first question . |
| 2 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 3 | As a result most contracting in the first year was in the form of unsophisticated block contracts . |
| 4 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 5 | All three comital functions are documented in Charles the Bald 's reign , though royal instructions have a good deal more to say about the first and second than about the third . |
| 6 | The current study clearly shows for the first time that PT-gliadin and/or fragments are intracellulary present in normal enterocytes after exposure . |
| 7 | The club now meets on the first Tuesday evening in the month from 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm . |
| 8 | The frequency of intercourse approximately halves in the first year of marriage but takes about 20 years to halve again . |
| 9 | Sometimes that flash is near slit 1 and in that case we know that the electron actually went through the first slit . |
| 10 | Plainly this error too derives from the first one , for if the concept ‘ profession ’ has no theoretical existence , and yet is recognised as a concept , it lacks all material grounding . |
| 11 | The change usually occurs on the first beat of a bar or phrase , which eliminates any fussiness when the footwork is intricate . |
| 12 | To see this , imagine repeating for a second country the process just described for the first . |
| 13 | Business generally increased until the First World War when tonnages dropped away . |
| 14 | Conventionalism also failed on the first perspective . |
| 15 | The ruling , by six to three , was the first occasion upon which the Court had authorized states to ban the private possession of pornographic material , a right previously protected by the First Amendment . |
| 16 | A thief just walked into the first floor office at Newman Lane industrial estate and then made off . |
| 17 | The extent of literacy gradually increased in the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 18 | The normal subjects displayed a biphasic response with coordinate increases in both serum and urine APGPR immunoeactivity both occurring within the first two hours after the meal . |
| 19 | Or was the metal never applied in the first place ? |
| 20 | Most Orthopteroid insects , Mecoptera , Trichoptera and Hymenoptera show only a little more concentration than this , but the metathoracic ganglion commonly fuses with the first 1–3 abdominal ones and the 7th and subsequent abdominal ganglia form a compound centre . |
| 21 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 22 | There is no time limit on the patient 's capacity for physical recovery , although an experienced physiotherapist usually knows within the first few weeks of starting treatment how quick or slow a hemiplegic patient 's physical recovery is likely to be . |
| 23 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we set up the National Rivers Authority specifically to respond in the first instance to the sort of pollution incidents to which he refers — this one is a very serious incident . |
| 24 | Now , looking out over the heartland to the eastern sky already flushed with the first faint gold of dawn , he said aloud : ‘ I let my father die deliberately . |
| 25 | The centre even paid for the first operation — they cost around Pounds 7,000 a time — because her teacher 's salary meant she could not afford it herself . |
| 26 | The earliest record for spring arrival is of one at Chidham on 23 March 1971 , but arrival always starts in the first 10 days of April , and some movement continues to mid-June . |
| 27 | The congress also agreed for the first time that in order to ensure a separation of the MPRP and state bodies , the Chairman of the Presidium of the People 's Great Hural ( i.e. effective head of state ) should not be a member of the supreme governing body of the MPRP . |
| 28 | So much so , that it has fallen from the 50 per cent standard of the 1930s , to less than 15 per cent in the late 1970s — which is no better , and in some areas far worse , than the standard already achieved before the First World War when the Probation Act of 1907 had hardly consolidated itself . |
| 29 | Changes in intensity thus relate to the first spatial derivative of the refractive index . |
| 30 | This branch was controlled by incorporated companies based in London — a dominance still marked in the first decade of the nineteenth century when City-based firms were responsible for 90 per cent of sums insured . |