Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
| 2 | The analysis of maximum contributions determined during 1988–89 contained in the first Legal Aid Board Annual Report ( 1989–90 ) contains the following figures relating to all courts : |
| 3 | The quality of consular services was improved in a number of cases , notably in Britain where a departmental committee of 1903 introduced for the first time recruitment of consuls by limited competition ( instead of as hitherto purely by nomination of the secretary of state for foreign affairs ) and a rationalised salary structure . |
| 4 | These men supplied many of the first generation of Russian permanent representatives in western Europe : of the twelve of these accredited in the first decade of the eighteenth century five had been members of the group of students sent to Venice in 1697 . |
| 5 | Between 3 and 11% of patients will develop sustained ventricular arrhythmias following MI and 50% of these occur within the first 48 hours , and if not associated with further ischaemia , pump failure or multivessel disease they carry a good prognosis . |
| 6 | Twenty-seven of those came in the first match , against Pontypridd ; Bedford took a similar caning and Coventry only four points less . |
| 7 | Witt , a big-serving 6ft 3ins American , produced a disastrous 12 double faults in the match but most of those came in the first set and a half when Wilkinson could hardly put a foot wrong . |
| 8 | In our study , all strictures appearing in the first decade and 82% of those appearing in the first two decades of disease were benign , while most ( 61% ) arising after 20 years or more were malignant . |
| 9 | One hundred patients of a total of 335 presenting for the first time with variceal haemorrhage were recruited into the study and randomised . |
| 10 | However , he got out of the commitment and at the age of 20 embarked on the first of many journeys to Europe . |
| 11 | After declining sharply up to 1979 its share of both stabilized in the first years of the Thatcher government , only to fall once more into the late 1980s . |
| 12 | The development of exploitation also leads to the formation of ideas , concepts , values , and institutions , but these , unlike those produced by the first process , are geared to operating exploitation , and involve giving the appearance of legitimacy to exploitation , as well as hiding its true nature from the exploited . |
| 13 | The improvement achieved in all major classes during 1992 continued into the first quarter of 1993 as the portfolio benefited increasingly from action on rates and operating costs . |
| 14 | They competed for the Henderson Young Show-Jumpers Award , with many overcome in the first round , including Points Table winner Andrew Davies . |
| 15 | The global left ventricular ejection fraction and rapid ST segment resolution did not differ significantly between those treated in the first 2 hours and those treated later . |
| 16 | The judge in the later case finds some relevant fact in that case of sufficient importance to justify a different approach from that adopted in the first decision . |
| 17 | In order to distinguish the conditioned response ( CR ) of the test stage from that acquired in the first stage of discrimination training , the nature of the reinforcer was changed , from appetitive to aversive . |
| 18 | The first point is that , of the five people generally named in any discussion of the generation gap theory , four are Free Presbyterians , which is a similar concentration to that found in the first generation of Paisley activists . |
| 19 | The age distribution of known opioid users was similar to that found in the first survey , with 69 per cent being aged between 16 and 24 years ( compared to 75 per cent in 1984–5 ) . |
| 20 | The ratios generated by the capture-recapture method display a remarkable similarity and identical ranking to those obtained by the first two methods . |
| 21 | The procedures employed to conduct the second multi-agency enumeration survey were similar to those adopted in the first survey , the main differences being the need to revise the agencies employed to enumerate problem drug users ( see Parker et al . |
| 22 | Jobs created by FDI in the Second and Third Worlds have added significance to those created in the First World . |
| 23 | The social and drug-using characteristics of known opioid users in the second prevalence survey were , by and large , similar to those found in the first survey during 1984–5 . |
| 24 | Particular rapid ST segment resolution occurred among those treated within the first hour of the onset of symptoms . |
| 25 | Among those missing from the first Grand Slam event of the year are Andre Agassi and Jimmy Connors , who has not played the Australian Open for more than a decade . |