Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interpretation put forward here is not fundamentally different from that offered by Jaynes when he suggested that a tendency to emit ( a fractional version of ) the response acquired in the first stage would serve as a mediating process in the second , and that the salience of the mediator would depend on the magnitude of the initial response of which it was a fraction . |
| 2 | Theory 3 — That the West had been too lax in the post-war years and had blind faith in the hope that the unity achieved after the first World War would be re-kindled . |
| 3 | Here is the chance to see the direction alternating for the first time . |
| 4 | Or was that where all the money went in the first place ? |
| 5 | If a home does not meet the minimum standard , the owner will be able to claim back all the money spent within the first year after purchase on raising it to that level , through , for example , home insulation , up to the amount of stamp duty they paid when they bought the property ( up to the maximum of £1000 ) . |
| 6 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 7 | The council later abandoned its plans to widen the highway and the reversion passed to the first defendants , who were not a highway authority . |
| 8 | Only later , on the negative or the print , would the photographer notice for the first time , say , a sundial on a distant lawn . |
| 9 | This week The Economist appears for the first time in its own new type-face — known as Ecotype . |
| 10 | Moreover , the contract compared with the first operation some three years ago was most significant . |
| 11 | The aims of the research are : to undertake a wide-ranging review of the priority assessment techniques applied by local authorities to transport projects ; to apply a representative sample of the techniques to a common set of projects ; and to distill the experience gained through the first two stages , together with knowledge of recent developments in the theory and practice of multiple criteria analysis into a computer-based priority assessment package . |
| 12 | The male looks after the first and the female the second . |
| 13 | The Russian spoke for the first time . |
| 14 | So I think if you 've got the creativity to write in the first place , you just need to change , not so much the instrument , but maybe change the tuning or the pitch . |
| 15 | A second legal mortgage can be created by leasing the land to the second mortgagee for a term longer by at least one day than the term limited to the first mortgagee . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The monument stands on the first cross-roads in front of the Carmel Road entrance to West Cemetery . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In most cat books , the figure given for the first domestication of the cat is between 3,500 and 4,500 years ago . |
| 20 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 21 | The elections were thus marked by a high rate of abstention : only 38.89 per cent of the electorate voted in the first round and 33.38 per cent in the second . |
| 22 | The Admiralty had from the first a ‘ prize ’ jurisdiction , i.e. a jurisdiction to determine all questions as to the ownership of ships and goods captured at sea by a belligerent . |
| 23 | The club meets on the first Wednesday of the month at . |
| 24 | If the searched-for item is less than the mid-point ( for words this means the searched-for item comes earlier in the alphabet than the item at the mid-point ) , then the search continues in the first half of the structure , if it is greater , the search continues in the second half of the structure . |
| 25 | The poet writes in the first person singular as a man talking to a loved one about the inevitable advent of his death , and yet the matter discussed here is not so much death as the gradual disappearance of life . |
| 26 | Do not allow the horse to wander into the first fence . |
| 27 | This can be done by apply the formulae of Chapter 6 or , directly , by noting that replacing x 2 + σ 2 = 7 with x 2 + σ 2 = 3 can be effected by replacing σ 2 with σ 2 + 4 , so that the equation corresponding to the first row : becomes which is equivalent to replacing the RHS with 4 . |
| 28 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |
| 29 | Squashed between the driver and the mechanic on top of the engine housing in the first truck , we found ourselves in the role of unwitting umpires , keeping the two men from each other 's throats . |
| 30 | With a piercing whine and a cough , the engine caught on the first ignition . |