Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , I have found that students and businessmen who are using this technique for the first time tend to get confused between the two axes . |
| 2 | The seventh five-year plan just ended may have had its ups and downs , producing high growth in the first half of the plan 's period , followed by inflation and then austerity in the second half , but overall it was a success : the economy grew by 7.5% a year , incomes for city-dwellers almost doubled and last year 's grain harvest was the biggest ever . |
| 3 | A board beside it bore a specification of the car and an outline of the services offered by Hazards Limited , who were sponsoring this prize for the first player to ace the hole . |
| 4 | My initial impression , on seeing this guitar for the first time , was that Rockwood have tried very hard to steer away from total Strat clone , whilst keeping all the essential ingredients pretty much to the fore . |
| 5 | Students from hot countries should include an additional amount to cover the costs of purchasing warm clothing in the first year of their studies . |
| 6 | Students from hot countries should include an additional amount to cover the costs of purchasing warm clothing in the first year of their studies . |
| 7 | There would again be an increase in the ability of a elements to overshadow c elements , but in addition the reduction of the number of c elements activated by A would mean that relatively few of them would be capable of acquiring associative strength in the first place . |
| 8 | But what undermined him in office , and made him worth hearing out of it , was his surprise at becoming Prime Minister in the first place — Rab Butler shared that — so that , he agreed , he never quite suppressed a sense of the absurdity of his position . |
| 9 | Phillips continued to progress in the service , rising to a grade of surveying general examiner of the first class in 1853 . |
| 10 | They stood then for a moment in mutual silence and surprise , rather as Sophia and Rupert had stood on Ianthe 's doorstep , or like two strange cats meeting each other for the first time . |
| 11 | She picked up her bag and followed him out to his car , hating him for making her feel so gauche , and hating herself more for acting that way in the first place . |
| 12 | Say that 's population control investment in agricultural infrastructure and technology education and what 's causing this problem in the first place ? |
| 13 | The movement into private care has been accentuated by tight control of local authority expenditure at a time when numbers of people have been ‘ deinstitutionalised ’ from psychiatric and psycho-geriatric units , and when people from an ageing population have been seeking residential care for the first time . |
| 14 | Marco van Basten , the European Footballer of the Year , gave European champions Milan a timely boost by returning to the squad for training this week for the first time since a cartilage operation on 1 September . |
| 15 | In fact they were clearly entranced by Hannah — which , it has to be said , is par for the course with everyone meeting this lady for the first time . |
| 16 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 17 | My final choice from last week 's ‘ Independent ’ was the example that provoked me into attempting this subject in the first place . |
| 18 | Her lips parted uncertainly and she tasted the sweet caress of his mouth like a child tasting fizzy sherbet for the first time . |
| 19 | The effect is almost as though one were experiencing full immersion for the first time after years of paddling around in the shallows . |
| 20 | They the Adventurers however , had profited to the amount only of £412 : 12s. 9d … without reckoning any interest on the first outlay . |
| 21 | PENNY HASSET * , who showed marked improvement when encountering heavy ground for the first time at Wolverhampton recently , should make the most of similar conditions on her return to the course for today 's Daffodil Handicap ( 5.0 ) . |
| 22 | With the airport , it was not defending strong ground in the first place . |
| 23 | ‘ That was something I missed terribly when I retired and doing this race for the first time is a way of replacing it . ’ |
| 24 | On the assumption that 60% would attend for screening , 1125 of those might be diagnosed as having prostatic cancer at the first screen . |
| 25 | It helps the sufferer to know that while you hold him or her responsible for all actions , you do not hold him or her accountable for having addictive disease in the first place . |
| 26 | Listen to his way with Chopin 's instruction la melodia tenuta e legata in the E minor , Op. 25 No. 5 , or the urgency ( rather than mere proficiency ) with which the notorious thirds of Op. 25 No. 6 are propelled , and you may well feel that you are hearing this music for the first time . |
| 27 | And students are , after all , adults , with many entering higher education for the first time in their middle age , or even beyond . |
| 28 | Indeed , that is the very reason for assuming bilateral speech in the first place . |
| 29 | ‘ If she 's dead , ’ said Sam , ‘ she 's not going to mind much about anything , and anyway , if she went to all the trouble of making that tape in the first place , she 's obviously not bothered about leaving it lying around . |
| 30 | The Martens government succeeded by early 1989 in winning parliamentary approval for the first two stages of a three-stage constitutional reform [ see p. 36774 ] , but by mid-1991 it had been unable to win agreement on the third stage . |