Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position . |
| 2 | When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones . |
| 3 | Richard Morton is generally credited with the first medical description in 1689 and he poignantly captured the key clinical feature : ‘ I do not remember that I did ever in all my practice see one , that was conversant with the living so much wasted with the greatest degree of a consumption ( like a skeleton only clad with skin ) ’ . |
| 4 | Was it already streaked with the first faint grey fingers of dawn ? |
| 5 | Joe is , of course , best remembered as the first professional to overcome what had grown into a hoodoo . |
| 6 | Now , looking out over the heartland to the eastern sky already flushed with the first faint gold of dawn , he said aloud : ‘ I let my father die deliberately . |
| 7 | Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea , two small clumps of trees , one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint , marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey ; and , far back on the inland level , a larger and loftier mass , the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda , was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon ( 4 ) . |
| 8 | Changes in intensity thus relate to the first spatial derivative of the refractive index . |
| 9 | SOUTH AFRICA were easily beaten in the first one-day international against West Indies at Sabina Park in Kingston , Jamaica , yesterday . |
| 10 | Voters lined up before dawn in Chad yesterday to participate in the first national election in 20 years in this war-torn former French colony . |
| 11 | These in turn are covered by several layers of stony , sandy soil — probably washed into the valley from surrounding fields — possibly resulting from the first agricultural settlement of the area . |
| 12 | It clearly ranks as the first written literature of any consequence . |
| 13 | Yet it is migration to and from rural areas that has been the main concern of rural geographers in the last century , and so attention is now turned to the first major theme of this chapter , rural population change . |
| 14 | Today we are supposedly living in the first great secular age of history ( though do we not still worship our own pagan idols — of money and success ? ) . |
| 15 | ‘ We ca n't throw this system away in five years ’ time , like Pearl is now doing with the first general ledger it installed in the mid-eighties . ’ |
| 16 | A quota sale by Aberdeen & Northern Marts , originally billed as the first national sale , will not be held until quota transfer forms are issued . |
| 17 | A short while after the evening at St James 's Palace , I was very kindly invited to the First Annual NCH 's George Thomas Society Lecture , held at the Cafe Royal . |
| 18 | Elsewhere the 70 m ( 230 ft ) terrace is sometimes attributed to the first interglacial period . |
| 19 | John Chalcraft , Managing Director at the Brewery ( 1928–69 ) and H.J. Young ( who ran the Club during the First War ) , were then appointed as the first Financial Advisers , in consultation with the Captain . |
| 20 | Indeed , he participates so actively that he is apparently involved in the stoning to death of Stephen , officially regarded as the first Christian martyr ( although Stephen would have seen himself , of course , as a pious Jew ) . |
| 21 | Of course even the phyla themselves originated from unknown ancestors , and they all ultimately derived from the first living cell . |
| 22 | The strained atmosphere never survived beyond the first trickling bouquet from the roasting bird , stuffed pot-bellied with chestnuts . |
| 23 | Elected to the representative board ( 1879 ) which was to be responsible for the foundation of the British Dental Association , he was subsequently appointed to the first editorial committee of the Journal of the BDA , and was BDA president in 1884 . |
| 24 | On the horn , by the way , the actual fundamental note of each series can not be produced ; each series therefore begins with the first harmonic , i.e. the octave from the fundamental . |