Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some galleries project from the first floor of the house ; others are on barn buildings above the yard . |
| 2 | Moed & Vriens found , in their study of inaccuracies in citations 146 , that the largest single cause of discrepancies was the method of dealing with compound names , such as van , van der , de , Mac , and hyphenated names ( some authorities cite under the first part , some under the second , some ignore the hyphen ) . |
| 3 | Moed & Vriens found , in their study of inaccuracies in citations , that the largest single cause of discrepancies was the method of dealing with compound names , such as van , van der , de , Mac , and hyphenated names ( some authorities cite under the first part , some under the second , some ignore the hyphen ) . |
| 4 | Some fungi succumb to the first heavy frosts , but there are others which seem to thrive in cold , wet weather . |
| 5 | Maintenance and improvement works have been carried out over the past few months resulting in the first Sunday train leaving at 5pm . |
| 6 | Good arrangements and an eye for detail can only be achieved with practice , so it may help to have a few guidelines to follow in the first place , if only to act as a spring board for producing interesting and unusual ideas of your own . |
| 7 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 8 | The forensics , the laboratory stuff — all the stuff we 've taken in — soil , clothing fragments , even some flakes found on the first boy — they look promising , but we do n't get any further . |
| 9 | The answer to such questions depends in the first place upon what we mean by ‘ syndrome ’ . |
| 10 | This is just as true of a mechanical joint as it is of a glued joint and most of the load in such joints comes upon the first and last bolts or rivets . |
| 11 | These effects relate to the first encounter with words in a text . |
| 12 | In view of the complexity of the psycholinguistic abilities which contribute to normal language functioning , it is perhaps not surprising that attempts to explain how these abilities emerge in the first place and are orchestrated into the unified process which we recognise as language have met with only limited success . |
| 13 | And these conditions apply from the first of April of this year . |
| 14 | It is important to realise that it is these eggs deposited in the first half of the grazing season from April to June , which give rise to the potentially dangerous populations of L3 from July to October . |
| 15 | These results show for the first time to our knowledge , the interactions between calcium , phosphate , fatty acids , and bile acids along the intestine . |
| 16 | The majority of these deaths occur in the first hour and it is important to realise that if early ventricular fibrillation is survived the ultimate outcome is unaffected . |
| 17 | These photographs show for the first time the lives of people who , in the spirit of the age are changing from a silent minority into a rebellious one . |
| 18 | About one third of all cases recover after the first episode of alopecia areata , and never get another bald patch . |
| 19 | For example , in 1979 nearly half of all divorces occurred within the first 10 years . |
| 20 | At least seventy three percent of all foetuses aborted in the first trimester are male . |
| 21 | Many new parties and NGOs are springing up in what many observers see as the first steps toward development of a healthy civil society . |
| 22 | Judging by the many Figures covered by the first letter of the alphabet — fifty-eight at the beginning — it can be appreciated that Miller had been justly advised ; such expansion throughout the work would have priced it far outside the purse of the ‘ generality ’ if , indeed , it could have been completed in his lifetime . |
| 23 | Approximately half of all reinfarcts occur within the first month and the rest tail out to one year . |
| 24 | For these reasons , there is a massive drop-out rate , with only some one quarter of all pupils registered in the first year finishing their primary education . " |
| 25 | In our study , all strictures appearing in the first decade and 82% of those appearing in the first two decades of disease were benign , while most ( 61% ) arising after 20 years or more were malignant . |
| 26 | The happiness and general enthusiasm that children of all types experience in the first years of primary school evaporate as they become adolescent ant move into the secondary school . |
| 27 | Those schools selected for the first quality audit in mathematics or science have recently been asked to supply 12 pieces of work from across the entire year group reflecting the spread of the ability range . |
| 28 | Can my right hon. Friend comment on the recent improvements unveiled in the Guy 's hospital patients charter , with 3 , 500 more patients treated in the first six months , with better staff conditions and with lower waiting lists ? |
| 29 | However , the significant difference in packed cell volume between the groups remained when only those samples obtained within the first two hours were compared and also when only those obtained from the third hour onwards were compared . |
| 30 | Although he will take urgent steps to impose a new contract , which they have rejected , he has told the doctors ' and dentists ' pay review body that he is prepared to tackle any problems arising in the first year . |