Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes for domestic customers with quarterly accounts are effective from the first meter reading after April . |
| 2 | Double ropes are useful for the first pitch . |
| 3 | Many course combinations are possible during the first three years , facilitating transfer between these three streams . |
| 4 | Faecal SCFA concentrations were low on the first day of diarrhoea ( mean ( SEM ) 9.9 ( 5.8 ) mmol/kg ) and increased to 94.8 ( 16.4 ) mmol/kg by the fifth day . |
| 5 | To examine this shift , we return to the first order condition , equation ( 16 ) , which can now be rewritten as The term in square brackets is positive for the first order condition for a maximum to hold . |
| 6 | More particularly , attacks on players and match officials were predominant before the First World War , whilst fights between opposing fan groups are predominant today ’ ( Dunning , 1990:76 ) . |
| 7 | The leaders of the Norman Watt ‘ A ’ and ‘ B ’ Ulster 125 and 750 Championships are unbeaten since the first round at Desertmartin . |
| 8 | As Perry and others have noted , relatively few resources are devoted to the first two aspects , the bulk going to response and restoration ( rebuilding ) . |
| 9 | The eggs were clear for the first two or three days , after which the developing fish were clearly visible inside . |
| 10 | Looking back with seventy years ' hindsight , Dad might have been wiser to have accepted this offer , but things were different before the First World War and couples might quarrel and argue all their married life as Mum and Dad did but rarely separated and never divorced . |
| 11 | Equally , however , if they are essentially operating as traditional institutions and if it does succeed as a multi-purpose agency , it begs the question whether UDCs were necessary in the first place . |
| 12 | On 3 March 1987 the originating summons was amended by adding the seventh and eighth plaintiffs , and on 19 March 1987 it was further amended to seek accounts of all transactions entered into , and of all dealings with the property of the plaintiffs by the first defendant , and of all moneys received by or payment made by the first defendant or by the second or third defendants , and an inquiry whether any sums were due from the first defendant to the plaintiffs . |
| 13 | In the interests of both food hygiene and food quality , it is , of course , important that these instructions are accurate in the first place . |
| 14 | That involved the contention that , in substance , the fresh charges were identical to the first charges . |
| 15 | A notice in the porch stated that the church-keys were available from the first house in the village . |
| 16 | Engineering and other standards are valuable in the first place as structured communication . |
| 17 | In fact , the estimated weights which the individual attaches to these extra income receipts is negative in the first period and positive in the second period ( except in Model 3 , but insignificantly ) . |
| 18 | The mills are also breaking pollution levels set by the local NRAs which WEN claims are inadequate in the first place . |
| 19 | ‘ Alas ’ , wrote Fernanda Eberstadt , a German-American , the later ones are inferior to the first two , and alas , the personal character imparted by his writings — freely imparted , one might add , and yet not unreservedly — is flawed . |
| 20 | 46 unqualified mature students were involved in the first study at the University of Sheffield . |
| 21 | The concentration and output of SCFA in faeces was low on the first day of illness , but returned towards normal by the fifth day ( Table I ) . |
| 22 | For example , if a cell doubles its discharge rate under one set of conditions but quadruples under another , does that difference affect how subsequent levels in the circuit respond so that one group of cells is excited by the first set of conditions but a second group is activated by the second set ? |