Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , research into this area of hydrocarbon generation was given fresh impetus by the first ‘ energy crisis ’ in 1973 which saw gas assume a more important role as a primary energy source . |
| 2 | Brakeman for Great Britain Two , Edd helped the team to a better than expected thirteenth place after the first two of the four runs . |
| 3 | But my grandfather on my mother ; s side and my grandmother too both won military awards in the first war for bravery , so the oral traditions of both wars were always with us . |
| 4 | Gloucestershire have enjoyed mixed fortunes in the first day of their County Championship match against Northamptonshire . |
| 5 | The responses of those surveyed revealed some ignorance concerning the first question . |
| 6 | David Tindle had recently returned from a visit to Paris where he had seen this painting for the first time . |
| 7 | In most subjects a second bolus containing a different quantity of bicarbonate to the first was infused 30 minutes after the first bolus . |
| 8 | Erm and we have in fact , done some tests on the first and second floor since we did this eye test and er , humidity is in fact , within the the er the Health and Safety legislation , it 's within tolerance . |
| 9 | The patients were evaluated one month after the first lithotripsy session . |
| 10 | In the Congo he had hunted big game for the first time and in Abyssinia he took every opportunity to do so , and conveyed his enthusiasm to me when I was only a small boy . |
| 11 | What came was a sort of double-image — the boy I had known up to yesterday , young , grubby , entertaining , kind , lively , with his impish , monkey-plainness ; and the face I had seen last night for the first time , a face wiped clean of everything but rapture and tenderness and astonishment , a different face , a face to love and find beautiful . |
| 12 | On Dec. 23 two Palestinians were shot dead and more than 40 injured during fresh unrest in the Gaza Strip , the borders of which had been opened that day for the first time since the abduction of Toledano . |
| 13 | THE receiver handling the sale of Birmingham City has had 22 inquiries for the First Division club after it was formally put up for sale earlier this week . |
| 14 | At a time when the market is morose and les affaires difficiles , he had sold 12 drawings on the first day of the second Collectors ' Drawings fair in Paris . |
| 15 | For example , I have been at a venue like the Marquee club to check out a band for a record company and have also watched 30 minutes of the first act . |
| 16 | as if the police , or anyone else , will think there must be something wrong with them for them to have got such letters in the first place . ’ |
| 17 | While we have avoided lethal doses of the first two , in the community tank , levels of nitrate were so high that to introduce new fish might have been lethal ( hence the swords being elsewhere ) . |
| 18 | Last year it only sold 5,500 houses in 12 months , but this year it has already sold 4,160 houses in the first five months . |
| 19 | This periodontoid mass is not visible in patients who have had surgical fusion of the first two cervical vertebrae or in whom deformity has progressed to that of atlantoaxial impaction ( see below ) . |
| 20 | The Wolfson Archaeological Science Laboratories , which were opened last year in the first phase of the institute 's development plan , represent the latest advances in archaeology and incorporate modern developments in technology . |
| 21 | Women were granted the vote and given equal citizenship for the first time in the 1950 Constitution . |
| 22 | It was announced yesterday that the Glasgow Cup tournament will be played this season for the first time on an all-weather pitch . |
| 23 | Indeed , the publisher seems to have recognised these shortcomings of the first issue , and claims that the brief of the journal is being broadened . |
| 24 | But ex-Preston Grasshopper Hayton has plenty of big time experience for he formerly skippered England Colleges and has played several times in the first team . |
| 25 | They must have crossed 1,000 balls in the first half hour . |
| 26 | And the Press Council called senior editors to the first extraordinary meeting convened in its twenty-seven-year history to discuss the matter . |
| 27 | Fearing further unrest Alfonso 's government accepted the need for an electoral strategy and called local elections as the first stage in a gradual return to representative politics . |
| 28 | He had looked for a loophole in their guard , he had found that crevice at the first time of asking . |
| 29 | The late Raymond Lewenthal is perhaps best known these days as the first performer in modern times to have revived the music of Alkan , a collection of whose music he also published two years after he made these Gershwin recordings ( in Walthamstow Town Hall , of all places ) . |
| 30 | Some MPs expect Mr Lamont to widen the 20p income tax band introduced last year from the first £2,000 of earnings to £3,000 . |