Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | He produces the stories at a craftsmanlike rate , no more than one a year , so it is some time since the appearance of the first volume , Pig Earth . |
| 32 | We are pleased to state that since the appearance of the first edition of this book the Court of Appeal has at last seen sense in its approach to construction in cases involving general medical practitioners : see Clarke v Newland [ 1991 ] 1 All ER 397 . |
| 33 | Sumitomo Bank has stuck with NCR equipment for every generation of its banking systems since the implementation of the First Online system in the 1970s , and the defeat means that NCR now loses its last big customer account and one for which it maintained considerable investment in mainframes — even developing the 9800XL series , last of its mainframes — especially for Sumitomo . |
| 34 | It was a matter of considerable comment that only after the setback of the first ballot did Mrs Thatcher herself take the step of meeting backbenchers in the Commons tea room . |
| 35 | Stonehouse , also for Glasgow , was designated in 1972 , but after the building of the first houses , was aborted in 1976 : a vivid illustration of a change in priorities , for resources were to be channelled into the renewal of inner Glasgow ( the Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal — GEAR — scheme ) . |
| 36 | But after the disorientation of the first few seconds she had found herself entranced by the city below her spread out like a living map . |
| 37 | After the demise of the first national curriculum , the priority given to history in schools was dependent upon the continued dominance of the liberal academic tradition in education . |
| 38 | The Baldwin government which was returned to office in 1924 , after the collapse of the first Labour government , was committed to free trade , the gold standard and rationalization . |
| 39 | after the failure of the first implant , asked for the fourth embryo to be thawed and implanted . |
| 40 | The livret does not say whether the oboes in the first entrée are the same performers as the harmonie rustique that accompanies the récit , but for reasons having to do with economy of personnel and continuity in the staging , it seems likely that they were . |
| 41 | So , I think we should say we are sceptical , and I think the paper puts it correctly er , we are sceptical of whether the reforms of the first consortium in fact , is going to meet the needs in terms of new health area and I know that time will come , they 're talking about the lot , it 's gon na wonderful and that the our economies should get all I can say is that the likelihood is the only f the area committee er , so that residents can comment managers , but since we 've already had a nine hundred percent increase in senior management in the health service in the past five years up from nine hundred to over ten thousand at a cost of fifty to two hundred and fifty million pounds I 'm rather sceptical about that one as well ! |
| 42 | Its main function will be to ascertain whether the results of the first investigation would appear as firm to another team going over the same ground . |
| 43 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
| 44 | When the effect of one cell on another is directly by way of a modification of the synapse that the first cell makes on the second , this is known as a homosynaptic effect ; when the effect of the first cell on the second is modulated by the behaviour of a third cell synapsing on either of the other two , this is called a heterosynaptic effect . |
| 45 | When the results of the first ballot were announced Thatcher was in Paris attending meetings for the signature of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and of the Charter of Paris for a New Europe [ see pp. 37838-39 ] . |
| 46 | Perhaps it is as well the Guide Book ends at this point as he was then wondering , if further accommodation was needed when the fulfilment of the first scheme was achieved , about ‘ approaches to many other favourite points of vision on side grounds or from the tops of mountains , ought next to engage the attention of the subscribers . ’ |
| 47 | As soon as the parents of the first baby contacted health service bosses the parents of the second were told . |
| 48 | These sharp increases will contrast with below-inflation rent rises of 95 pence a week in about 156 local authority areas , as the Government for the first time moves away from a single national rents policy for the 4.5 million council tenants in England . |
| 49 | This is because salesmen are paid commission up front , which is often as much as the whole of the first year 's premiums . |
| 50 | Just as the trauma in the first five years of life of a child is forgotten , but appears later in the symptoms of neurotic illness , so the trauma of parricide has been forgotten , but makes its appearance in symptoms which in this case are religious actions and beliefs . |
| 51 | However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes . |
| 52 | As soon as the echo of the first chime began to be heard above the laughter , the disco music was toned down , and the dancers on the crowded floor began to move back , leaving a clear space . |
| 53 | However , the Afro-Caribbean communities themselves have continued to grow , as the migrants of the first generation have settled and had families of their own . |
| 54 | The incident provided excitement and argument for some weeks in Huaiwiri , and much work for Salah Muhammad , even though the girls of the first cohort were nearing the end of their course . |
| 55 | In 22 years , croplands in Costa Rica lost 60% of their calcium and 25% of their magnesium even though the fields in the first year were higher than the surrounding forest in these ions , through ash input . |