Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are currently two systems installed at the Lower Shakespeare Drift with a further six due for installation during the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 2 | ICL will start distributing trial packages bundled with DRS/NX V7 in June — with full implementations embedded with DRS/NX V8 due for release in the first quarter next year . |
| 3 | The phenomenon seems to me to be different in kind from the first . |
| 4 | And what monumental arrogance — to think that an evening in his company would be enough to wean her away from Rob — that was if she had been interested in Rob in the first place ! |
| 5 | Anyway , nobody would be particularly interested in Connie after the first day . |
| 6 | We are still six points clear on top of the First Division with a game in hand . |
| 7 | We have arranged a special offer : Country Living readers will be admitted free on presentation of the first page of this article ( or take along the March issue if you do not wish to cut your magazine ) . |
| 8 | Entry to the final two years of this course is dependent on performance in the first three years . |
| 9 | Yet neither side , partly because of the very existence of the truce , partly because of its own domestic divisions ( which were becoming more serious in France as the first decade of the new century progressed ) wished to raise fundamental issues . |
| 10 | The tourists had looked decidedly ordinary at times during the first half , but combined more fluently in the second to run up their most convincing victory to date , albeit a hollow one . |
| 11 | The man is dressed in the elegant black and white of Cambridge before the First World War . |
| 12 | It remains highly questionable why such a sensational and unrealistic play should be thought worthy of attention in the first place , but this is perhaps indicative of attitudes within the theatre that mental handicap is a good basis for plays written by writers who have no understanding of mental handicap but view it as a subject of horror around which some dramatic scenario can be created . |
| 13 | The following examples taken at random from accounts of the first half of the 19th Century show how the mine costs were arrived at and how the men were paid . |
| 14 | Maintenance arrangements existing prior to the 1988 Budget remain largely unaffected , other than that payments received by divorced or separated spouses are exempt from tax on the first £1,720 . |
| 15 | ‘ It would be a 10-year lease , index-linked to inflation for the first five years and I would have to do all the repairs the brewery had n't done . ’ |
| 16 | Faith that Jesus was God 's anointed prophet and king ( Messiah ) was basic to self-definition for the first church . |
| 17 | Felt-tips or fibre-tipped pens that give a strong , dark line are useful for children in the first classes , the disadvantage being that pressure can cause the tips to splay or split . |
| 18 | In the worst of conditions , Gloucester were desperate to win and they made sure of victory in the first half , when Martin Roberts kicked them into a 6-0 lead with 2 penalties . |
| 19 | He was impressed with Myra from the first moment he saw her : " She was a tremendous talent with a feel and flair which can not be taught . " |
| 20 | It is from some of these 400 that the letters come protesting innocence — and if they often ramble and are poorly expressed , that is indicative of a lack of education which made them vulnerable to manipulation in the first place . |
| 21 | In developing countries , where family planning is rarely practised prior to birth of the first child , the timing of first union bears directly upon fertility patterns , including the age at which the woman gives birth to her first child , often also the nature and pattern of subsequent reproductive events , as well as completed family size . |
| 22 | The desperation that drives the rural poor to cities in the first place is not going to be quenched by water-cannon , police batons , or bulldozers crashing through shanty-towns . |
| 23 | He had started work at the age of twelve as an apprentice electrician , wiring the houses of the rich in Liverpool before the First World War . |
| 24 | Use of the jufti knot was rife in Persia in the first half of this century , but the practice is less common in contemporary rugs . |
| 25 | A resilient alliance between Protestant theology and Aristotelian philosophy , which had established itself in different parts of Europe , remained particularly strong in Scotland during the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 26 | For example , in sentence ( 1a ) the information in the first clause is relatively complete in comparison with the first clause of sentence ( 1b ) : |
| 27 | Full of fire at the first performance , he would be worn out and as cold as marble at the third . |
| 28 | In addition to speaker , addressee and audience ( third person , being , of course , definable in terms of the first two ) , there are a number of further distinctions in person deixis that probably need to be made . |
| 29 | Over 1,000,000 days ' work were lost due to strikes in the first quarter of 1991 , a figure exceeded in the second quarter under the combined impact of continuing miners ' strikes and protest strikes against price increases . |
| 30 | Personal computers are too fragile to cope with viruses and must be replaced with sophisticated systems which are resilient to viruses in the first place . |