Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 4 | Scepticism arose with the first television interviews . |
| 5 | Two years of basic research led to a first description of Mamprusi court ritual and the system of succession . |
| 6 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |
| 7 | Critics of this theoretical approach emphasise that spectator violence existed before the First World War . |
| 8 | When something in that costly box of tricks above the pool side malfunctioned on the first night at the Grove , they had no option but to call on a back-up team of stopwatch timekeepers . |
| 9 | This penal optimism reigned throughout the first half of this century ( Bailey , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Is it possible to tell us how your advertising revenue performed in the first half on your Westminster Press and F T and whether you 've experienced any improvements in sits vac advertising since the end of the first half ? |
| 11 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 12 | One of the liveliest days of the campaign came during the first week . |
| 13 | British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual . |
| 14 | A separation appeared for the first time between design and production . |
| 15 | Sun said in the first half it shipped 28,000 Sparcstation 10s including 1,500 Model 41s . |
| 16 | For Hegedus one of the greatest distortions of Marxism was the ideology of centralized and hierarchical state management propounded during the first period of socialist development . |
| 17 | A flight of granite steps to his right led to the first floor of one of the buildings and an arrow carried the word , ‘ Office ’ . |
| 18 | All this suspicion arose from the first nylon yarn that appeared on the market . |
| 19 | The announcement came on the first day of a planned four-day general strike called by the Confederation of Trade Unions ( CTU ) to protest at the country 's perilous economic situation [ see p. 38836 ] . |
| 20 | Our local PFA Inspector Pat Barker kept a keen eye on our progress , monitoring our workmanship at all the recognised stages throughout the build , and on 8 March this year , Midge 's propeller turned for the first time under her own engine power , being a Monday , I naturally had the day as holiday ! |
| 21 | By the early decades of the twentieth century , the Kiel school 's theory of plankton growth had been widely accepted , but German oceanography collapsed after the First World War and the impetus passed to British and American scientists . |
| 22 | Britain 's real GDP fell in the first quarter , the third drop in a row , leaving it 2.5% down on a year ago . |
| 23 | Forty four year old Michael Byrne from Westlea in the town fell from a first floor window in the multi-storey ward block . |
| 24 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 25 | The best chance Town had in the first half came from this corner and it came from skipper Colin Calderwood . |
| 26 | Pressure on sterling continued into the first quarter of 1990 as inflation and interest rates increased , and on March 19 sterling hit a record low against the West German mark at DM2.71 . |
| 27 | Plans to expand the Windscale site with a major new development led to the first setpiece confrontation between the burgeoning antinuclear movement and the nuclear industry across the polite tables of a public inquiry . |
| 28 | This cash outflow occurred in the first half of the year . |
| 29 | Then , just short of his hall at Forteviot , the King came across the first group of injured . |
| 30 | The wife came to the first cavern and saw the dreadful dragon , stretched out all along the sea , shooting out foam and spume from her nostrils , lashing up the waves with her tail . |