Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government , I , I find it somewhat disappointing that having put in what I think was an extremely good bid , I think having had that bid accepted at the first stage by government on their shortlist , having then had the bid accepted by the European Union , with the populations really that we submitted to them , we now find that U K government are actually trying trade back some of that population , and , and area coverage of the bid , to be able to use some of that spare capacity which they would generate within the U K , within the European population figure elsewhere within the country . |
| 2 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 3 | In conclusion , this study shows for the first time that reduced fetal growth is followed by higher death rates from cardiovascular disease in adult life . |
| 4 | This result allows for the first time , sequence analysis of EF1β and δ proteins , both present in the same complex . |
| 5 | This body met for the first time in May 1989 and elected from its members the bicameral 542-member Supreme Soviet — the working constitutional body responsible for all legislative and administrative matters — consisting of the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities . |
| 6 | All this suspicion arose from the first nylon yarn that appeared on the market . |
| 7 | This edition builds upon the First Edition issued in early 1988 and takes account of reports on the operational experience of violence in the Department since that date . |
| 8 | ‘ Why was this baby kidnapped in the first place ? ’ |
| 9 | THE ISRAELI cabinet is being called this week to debate for the first time proposals made by Egypt for advancing the search for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . |
| 10 | Proudly proclaiming that this recording contains for the first time on one CD all of Bach 's Toccatas and Fugues ( including the Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV548 ) , it is indeed a well-stocked programme . |
| 11 | He came first equal in the foot-race This incident raises for the first time a question which is still being debated two and a half thousand years later : were the Macedonians Greeks ? the orators and propagandists of the fifth and fourth centuries do not help for they contradict each other . |
| 12 | This report describes for the first time the changes of UOS pressure that occur during spontaneous gastro-oesophageal reflux in unsedated children . |
| 13 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 14 | Two of the reasons for this reputation came at the first two majors of the 1986 season — the US Masters and US Open . |
| 15 | This view led to the first restrictions on private members ' capacity to interrupt or hold up business whenever they liked — or whenever they could get the House to listen to them , for there was always considerable self-discipline . |
| 16 | The geographer L. Dudley Stamp fashioned his land use survey in this context to capture for the first time since the Domesday Book an impression of how the land of Britain was used ( or misused ) . |
| 17 | This section looks at the first two of these applications . |
| 18 | This section concentrates on the first part of scanning ; that is , the gathering of information . |
| 19 | Their obligation to be honest with each other outweighed for the first time whatever they owed to anyone else . |
| 20 | Revised GDP figures show that growth slowed in the first quarter of 1993 to an annual rate of only 0.9% , down from 4.7% in the previous quarter . |
| 21 | For a £1 ‘ Each Way ’ bet , you stake £2. £1 of this goes on the same horse to win and the other £1 goes on the same horse to finish in the first three or four places , depending on how many runners there are in the race . |
| 22 | Any reason given in the first couple of stanzas . |
| 23 | The operation of this 3% in three year rule is likely to be unduly restrictive when it first applies because of the expected need to grant substantial new options to sharesave scheme participants and at the same time allow for the first allocations under the proposed executive share option scheme . |