Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the first [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anna Freud ( 1943 , 1960 ) , who had been one of the first to call attention to the emotional difficulties of small children separated from their mothers , attacked from yet another angle , affirming the emotional need , not only in the baby but in his mother , to be together during the first weeks of the child 's life , and criticizing maternity hospital practice that separated the two . |
| 2 | The coalmining industry has been a major symbol of the differences between the two main political parties of post-war Great Britain : the Labour party , with its firm commitment — especially in the first decades of the period — to public ownership of the ‘ commanding heights of the economy ’ , and the Conservative party and its much greater ( and increasing from the mid-1970s on ) commitment to free market operations with minimal state interference , let alone ownership . |
| 3 | But perhaps the most punishing — and undeserved — losses had been suffered by von Zwehl 's VII Reserve Corps , which had done so brilliantly in the first days of the battle . |
| 4 | At a few selected points , the particles crash together head-on , generating energy of an intensity matched only by the first moments of the explosion physicists believe created the universe . |
| 5 | Rather , it was his inability to end the war which , already in the first months of the Russian campaign and ever more strongly during 1942 , began inexorably to undermine the image of the far-sighted , infallible , and well-intentioned Führer . |
| 6 | Worried parents have attended a special clinic to learn more about the first signs of meningococcal meningitis . |
| 7 | Most of the growth was concentrated in the later decades of the nineteenth century and still more in the first years of the twentieth . |
| 8 | But the volume of ‘ railway milk ’ traffic grew only slowly in the first decades of railway transport . |
| 9 | The lira depreciated sharply in the first months of 1991 , however , falling 30 per cent against the US dollar between February and May . |
| 10 | Even throughout the first years of her marriage , she remained the dutiful wife , never complaining when her husband wanted to involve her in the country life . |
| 11 | Obviously , even in a statistically developed country it is an almost insurmountable task to achieve completeness in reporting spontaneous abortions , since an early miscarriage , particularly in the first weeks of pregnancy , can be easily mistaken as a late menses and some spontaneous abortions may not seem sufficient cause to some women for them to seek medical attention . |
| 12 | Some signs of their emergence can be seen even in the first days of the " new diplomacy " . |
| 13 | ‘ Stair has his spyes in every quarter and even at the first posts on the several roads , ’ complained one irate conspirator , but often their work was easy for , as Bolingbroke observed , the most secret plans were a subject of gossip ‘ among women over their tea ’ . |
| 14 | Interestingly enough , broadside probably derives from the naval tactic of firing all the guns from one side of a ship of war at once , without giving the recipient the necessity of awaiting installments Such sheets are of historic importance , since they date back to the sixteenth century , when popular poems and ballads were issued in this form ; and royal and official proclamations took to the streets in this guise almost from the first days of printing . |
| 15 | The two cells first grow inward across the midline following a pathway pioneered earlier by the first neurons in the ganglion , Q 1 and Q2 . |
| 16 | The old nomes grumbled among themselves , and scanned the sky anxiously for the first signs of robins or reindeer . |
| 17 | Each makeshift arrangement concealed a human larva that would emerge again at the first signs of dawn . |