Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As these anthropologists chose to investigate geographically peripheral communities , so we chose in the first instance to investigate communities that are marginal in a different sense . |
| 2 | Thereafter rain restricted them to one-day games and half of a four-day game , so they went into the first Test in Trinidad very under-prepared . |
| 3 | The MPRP took 56.9 per cent of the vote , only 6 per cent less than it achieved in the first open elections in July 1990 [ see pp. 37609-10 ] , and won 70 of the 76 seats in the unicameral People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) . |
| 4 | It could present a legal problem resulting in the council spending more on those costs than it saved in the first place . |
| 5 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 6 | The big pitfall is the prospect of a currency loss if sterling declines still further , which can wipe out the benefit of interest rate savings and leave the borrower owing more debt than he borrowed in the first place . |
| 7 | If you decided on the first day of the PIW you could not pay the SSP or that you had to stop paying SSP during the PIW , you employee can not get SSP now . |
| 8 | ‘ I would love to see how Leeds would handle the situation if we scored in the first minute , as they did at Ibrox . ’ |
| 9 | If we decided through the first of these two methods , which begins with moral assessment of each individual 's record one by one , that each shareholder was indeed responsible for a share of the loss , then we might well report our conclusion in the language of personification . |
| 10 | Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots . |
| 11 | and said that Christopher was on interview and er if he got through the first part to the second part he would in the afternoon he would give us a ph a ring , erm but he , by ten to two he had n't phoned so she assumed he was on his way back having |
| 12 | Perhaps the most significant intellectual advance of the mid-20th century was indeed made by Karl Popper , not because he provided any kind of method for scientists to pursue ( as he decidedly did not ) but because he showed for the first time in formal philosophy , that science is inescapably a human activity , and that if its underlying human-ness is ever shelved it is only temporarily , and for convenience , to ameliorate human frailty . |
| 13 | In 1960 the Rat Pack — Sinatra , Lawford , Martin , Davis and Bishop — came together to make Ocean 's Eleven , a caper that became a classic only because it featured for the first time the nucleus of the clan . |
| 14 | Even the Darwinian theory of evolution was impressive , not because the concept of evolution was new — it had been familiar for decades — but because it provided for the first time a satisfactory explanatory model for the origin of species , and did so in terms which were entirely familiar even to non-scientists , since they echoed the most familiar concept of the liberal economy , competition . |
| 15 | After a short discussion on the merits of the duck , he decided to join her ; and while they waited for the first course to arrive , he regaled her with a colourful account of that afternoon 's meeting in the history department to sort out the timetable . |
| 16 | The minutes dragged while they listened for the first hum of the approaching helicopter . |
| 17 | Steve Coppell , the Palace manager , pointed out that Arsenal remain the only team they have not beaten since they returned to the First Division . |
| 18 | His two pamphlets written during the First World War ( Durkheim , 1915a , 1915b ) show a total disregard — astonishing in a sociologist — for the social causes of the war ; the first provides a brief diplomatic history of the events leading up to the war , intended to demonstrate German ‘ guilt ’ , while the second naively analyses , during the postwar period , in nationalist movements and the formation of nation states is easily understandable , since it coincided in the first place with an upsurge of nationalism directed specifically against the economic and political dominance of the Western capitalist countries — where the great majority of sociologists live and work — which created an entirely new situation and new problems for those countries . |
| 19 | One roadie said I should have thought about it before I accepted in the first place . ’ |
| 20 | This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London . |
| 21 | ‘ Before I got in the first team , ’ he says , ‘ I was asking myself over and over again : ‘ can I really do it ? ’ . |
| 22 | Miss Kingsley was a practical woman ; she had spent years housekeeping for her family and was thirty before she left on the first of her journeys to West Africa in 1893 , taking with her boots , blankets and a hot-water bottle . |
| 23 | Before we got to the first tee I could see that Jack was already on edge — or more on edge , rather , because a hangover had already eaten into his small reserves of patience and equanimity . |
| 24 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 25 | When I got to the first rehearsal she announced , ‘ You 're all going to be in the Command Performance . ’ |
| 26 | But I was okay when I got to the first tee . ’ |
| 27 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 28 | ‘ When I stood on the first tee in the morning I could hardly see the fairway , ’ said the Atherstone club-mate and friend of Paul Broadhurst , the Ryder Cup player . |
| 29 | In relation to the former , as I indicated in the first paper , our capacity to invent commodity vocabulary is not paralleled by levels of commodity understanding . |
| 30 | Going to the first GLF meeting brought together these two aspects of myself as I saw for the first time the emotional need to have a context where I could be open and proud of my gayness , as well as the political context where my sexuality would seem relevant to all the other things that were going on around me at work and in the country at large . |