Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suter , whose interests span car parts to haircare products , was heavily in demand after the group more than tripled profits in the first half . |
| 2 | Suter , whose interests span car parts to haircare products , was heavily in demand after the group more than tripled profits in the first half . |
| 3 | But I saw torches moving , less powerful than lighted matches against the first crack of tarnished gold in the eastern sky . |
| 4 | Projected profiles consist of drawing the first section completely , while parallel sections behind the first are only drawn in so far as they project above earlier sections ( Fig. 9.17 ) . |
| 5 | The independent Turkish Human Rights Foundation reported 179 allegations made by criminal as well as political suspects in the first six months of 1992 alone . |
| 6 | It was Scots who had invented the steam engine , tarmacadam , the telephone , the Dunlop tyre , chloroform , Listerine , penicillin , television ; Scots who had risen to command foreign armies and navies and whose courage as kilted soldiers in the First World War had led the Germans to dub them ‘ the ladies from hell ’ ; Scots , of whom one had helped to found the Bank of England , who had made Edinburgh into one of the great financial centres of Europe ; Scots who had provided Westminster with more than her share of British Prime Ministers ; Scots who with only a tenth of the population of Britain , had yet supplied England with one fifth of her professional classes . |
| 7 | What is less easy to explain is that all of these words seem to have been created as phonetic imitations of the first meaningful sound uttered by many babies . |