Example sentences of "[det] [vb pp] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
| 2 | These men supplied many of the first generation of Russian permanent representatives in western Europe : of the twelve of these accredited in the first decade of the eighteenth century five had been members of the group of students sent to Venice in 1697 . |
| 3 | The ten rooms were all situated on the first floor . |
| 4 | Culturally , the native population encountered by the Russians was more varied than that found by the first Europeans in northern North America , but the general linguistic situation in the two regions was similar . |
| 5 | Particular rapid ST segment resolution occurred among those treated within the first hour of the onset of symptoms . |
| 6 | The procedures employed to conduct the second multi-agency enumeration survey were similar to those adopted in the first survey , the main differences being the need to revise the agencies employed to enumerate problem drug users ( see Parker et al . |
| 7 | The development of exploitation also leads to the formation of ideas , concepts , values , and institutions , but these , unlike those produced by the first process , are geared to operating exploitation , and involve giving the appearance of legitimacy to exploitation , as well as hiding its true nature from the exploited . |
| 8 | The social and drug-using characteristics of known opioid users in the second prevalence survey were , by and large , similar to those found in the first survey during 1984–5 . |
| 9 | The list of styles now available contains all those defined for the first document , ready for use in the current document . |
| 10 | Jobs created by FDI in the Second and Third Worlds have added significance to those created in the First World . |
| 11 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : A large number of points have been raised by the Hon. Member for Cunninghame , North ( Mr. Wilson ) , but the preferences are those stated on the first day of our Committee proceedings . |
| 12 | The fact that the question is thrown into the perfect tense shows beyond doubt that no other facts than those stated in the first sentence are to be assumed . |
| 13 | In December 1790 the Quaker committee , which maintained its existence alongside the London body , prompted Friends in the country to lobby their local MPs , particularly those elected for the first time in 1790 . |
| 14 | The behaviour referred to here is that required in the first stages of an encounter with any new material . |