Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the first [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | By Article V of the Convention , the sultan promised to negotiate with the Serbs on their demands for freedom of worship ; the right to establish their own schools and printing presses ; the return of areas won during the first revolt and forcibly returned to Turkish rule in 1813 ; the right of Serbian merchants to trade freely throughout the Ottoman empire ; a prohibition on any new Turkish settlement outside the major towns ; and an increase in the powers of Serbian government . |
| 2 | The elections were thus marked by a high rate of abstention : only 38.89 per cent of the electorate voted in the first round and 33.38 per cent in the second . |
| 3 | Encouraged by the success of the publication , CD collected together other pieces previously published in periodicals but not included in the First Series and Sketches by Boz Second Series was published in one volume by Macrone in 1837 ( but bearing the date 1836 ) , uniform with the previous 2 volumes , and including 10 illustrations ( 12 in the second edition ) by Cruikshank . |
| 4 | Chinyou , who had been United 's best player on the day , was booked in the first half and he limped off just after the break , and his departure was to prove a turning point . |
| 5 | ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her . |
| 6 | She sipped the wine , picked at the first course and let James Hamilton carry the conversation . |
| 7 | It will be noticed that these two items have common elements ; their time periods overlap , so that anyone doing a comprehensive study on the first half of the twentieth century would want both items if he was really very thorough , and the interest of Women 's Liberation students would be caught by the first item and by part of the second item . |
| 8 | If we add a syllable , the ‘ fall ’ part of the fall-rise is usually carried by the first syllable and the ‘ rise ’ part by the second . |
| 9 | Now , after quite a shore period , the locomotive has been steamed for the first time and is almost in working order . |
| 10 | In one of these three patients the bleeding started in another ulcer not seen during the first endoscopy and therefore not treated with heater probe . |
| 11 | The timings of the trains will be revealed for the first time and anyone interested is welcome to attend the meeting at St Mary 's Centre , Corporation Road , Middlesbrough at 7.30pm . |
| 12 | The operation was repeated in November , when Larak — this time a 2,500 km round trip — was bombed for the first time and five tankers were hit . |
| 13 | On the twenty fourth July nineteen ninety one the new resources and policy grant sub-committee met for the first time and considered a number of applications including one from your organisation . |
| 14 | A new ( wooden ) professional 's shop was built nearer the first tee and is still to be seen above the Secretary 's office , although now in a poor state of repair and its demolition likely . |
| 15 | Rother 's woes were further compounded when Richard Whitmore Jones was injured in the first game and took no further part in the match . |
| 16 | They had one shot in the first half and that was seen off by Paul Reece . |
| 17 | Devitrification is almost universal in ancient glasses which were usually badly made in the first place and have had plenty of time to crystallize ; the result , however is , often very beautiful , though these old glasses have become very weak . |
| 18 | The first man cycled to the first mark and left the cycle and hurried on , on foot . |
| 19 | Whilst this process may , for this model , take up to 20 iterations to achieve an acceptable assembly from a disjointed starting point , once an association has been accomplished for the first time and , if only small disturbances are imposed , re-association may be accomplished in as few as three attempts . |
| 20 | During the addition of user data , dangling cross-references , perhaps reflecting the order in which data is added , are flagged in the first pass and only after a second pass to re-check citations is the possibility of rejection considered . |
| 21 | Effort and application were not needed in the first instance and did not come easily when the need arose . |
| 22 | With the support of the printed lines , Michael Banks 's performance regained the stature it had shown in the first scene and left no doubt that he was going to add a new excellence to The Hooded Owl . |
| 23 | There was a much smaller association between adversity measured at the first interview and symptoms at the second . |
| 24 | Not only has that disc problem proved frustrating , but so has the inactivity temporarily imposed by a series of exploratory tests to assess the damage : ‘ Having been injured in the second tour match against Queensland I got back to full fitness , played in the First Test and was looking forward to the second . |
| 25 | ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’ |
| 26 | The solicitor contacted by the first defendant and Mr. Morgan for the purposes of the new will , Mr. Burgess , concluded that the deceased lacked testamentary competence and that he should not proceed in the matter . |
| 27 | We do the same for the submatrix bordered by the first row and column , and so on , so that finally we reach the unit matrix as the canonical form for A. It is to be observed that , since in using elementary operations I ( i , j ) , I(k) , I(l) on A we are effectively at each stage multiplying together determinants neither of which vanishes , the reduction of A to I must be possible when A is on-singular . |
| 28 | Even before 1905 , a solidly-based mass press had come into being , and in the last decade of the Empire there was an explosion in the publication of newspapers , while the number of books appearing more than trebled in the first decade and a half of the century . |
| 29 | Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob . |
| 30 | She said she 's walked for the first time and felt exhausted . |