Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 Among our three countries , only Malaysia has enjoyed the effects of the first : during the latter half of the 1980s , its real effective exchange rate dropped by 36 per cent .
2 Once again , you have an opportunity to go for a perfect ton , providing you have produced the goods during the first two days play .
3 People have encroached on the habitat , they have removed the predators or they have introduced the herbivores in the first place .
4 The company have stolen the paths in the first place .
5 Accountancy Television has announced the rates for the first annual subscriptions .
6 However , alongside these measures , specifically directed towards the alleviation of symptoms , it is important to identify and change some of the external stresses that have caused the problems in the first place .
7 For six-pointed shapes of the type shown in Fig 5.5 , Ellis and Muller found that subjects who had learned labels for the various shapes out-performed controls ( who had simply observed the stimuli in the first phase of training ) on a motor task that required pressing one switch rather than some other in response to these stimuli .
8 Genda , as operations officer for the airborne attack had trained the pilots of the First Carrier Division in low level flights over Kagoshima Bay in southern Japan .
9 There was great scope we saw for matching marketing , the due diligence product outside er Manchester area er that has been particularly successful we are going to have , well all of you are probably aware of of a significant increase in the in the of due dili due diligence work er very encouraging that er most of it I think I 'm right in saying has come , certainly the bigger ones have come from out with the region er and have been introduced to us from bankers er in London , er initially we 've had er a lot of support from our er colleagues in London who 've effected the introductions in the first place , precisely how the partnership virtually work .
10 The improved performance had outweighed the setbacks in the first half of the financial year to March 31 .
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