Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [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 | 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 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |
6 | Critics of this theoretical approach emphasise that spectator violence existed before the First World War . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | This penal optimism reigned throughout the first half of this century ( Bailey , 1987 ) . |
9 | 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 ? |
10 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
11 | The land was sold to the second to fourth defendants on 21 July 1988 , and by order dated 16 December 1988 they were added as defendants and the action stayed against the first defendants . |
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 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
24 | The best chance Town had in the first half came from this corner and it came from skipper Colin Calderwood . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | This cash outflow occurred in the first half of the year . |
28 | Then , just short of his hall at Forteviot , the King came across the first group of injured . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | They were all equally carefully examined by Philip Corder , John Gillam and myself , and there was a unanimous verdict that every sherd belonged to the first century . |