Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is plainly in the interests of the more efficient administration of justice that there should be split trials in appropriate cases , as even where the decision on the first part of a split trial is such that there will have to be a second part , it may be desirable that the decision shall be appealed before incurring the possibly unnecessary expense of the second part . |
| 2 | It is nearly a quarter of a century — longer than the periods between the first and second world wars — since Labour last had the support of as many as four votes in 10 . |
| 3 | The pros and cons of which financial saviour should be favoured — a bid led by the American company Sikorsky , or a European consortium including British Aerospace — need not concern us here , because to dwell unduly upon them would be like treating the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo as the cause rather than the trigger for the First World War . |
| 4 | Alan had been in the third coach of the second train and was therefore luckier than the people in the first and second coaches , several of whom were dead |
| 5 | Although the data from the first study are still being analysed , initial results are promising . |
| 6 | The Dorset Square Hotel is situated at the back of Baker Street in , as the name suggests , a charming old square , once the location of the first Lords Cricket Ground . |
| 7 | But the Americans , apart from the fact that they probably provided the guns in the first place , paid out $1m to persuade people to hand them in . |
| 8 | ( 8 ) Until the date of the first renewal of licences provisionally granted under subsection ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) above after those licences have been declared final , subsections ( 2 ) to ( 5 ) of section 30 of this Act shall have effect in relation to those licences with the substitution in subsection ( 3 ) of section 30 of a reference to one year instead of the reference to three years . |
| 9 | Medical opinion believed that early breast milk ( antigen-rich colostrum ) was harmful , and that feeding should be delayed until the passage of the first stools . |
| 10 | Thus Broda ( 1975 ) has suggested that until the significance of the first law of thermodynamics that heat is a form of energy , had been appreciated , and until energy distribution implications of the second law had been assimilated , then progress in the analysis of bioenergetical processes was uneven and patchy . |
| 11 | Up until the eve of the First World War resistance and insurrection , although limited , had persisted particularly in the wild hill country of the Sino-Vietnamese border and when the war began in 1914 and the reserves of power available to France , both French and Vietnamese , began to be drained off there was at least a local opportunity for revived resistance . |
| 12 | And it would n't have been until the development of the first cities that streetwalkers really started to come into their own 11,000 — 12,000 years later . |
| 13 | They swam for centuries in the sea below the cliffs , until the ringing of the first Christian bell changed them back into children and they drowned . |
| 14 | ( vi ) If the date for the first review is fixed 17 years after sentence , the prisoner is told that this does not necessarily mean that the period for retribution and deterrence has been set at 20 years . |
| 15 | ( i ) Proponents of probabilistic analyses have it that two events can be cause and effect if the presence of the first raised the probability of the second from 0 to only 01 , or of course less . |
| 16 | ‘ If the indicators for the first quarter remain flat or suggest a further fall in output , then the time will have come for a further cut in interest rates , by another 1 per cent or more . ’ |
| 17 | If the point of the first suggestion is that Athens was in reality the preserve of a leisured upper class , that is simply untrue . |
| 18 | Comparison of the CONVEX-91 west section ( Fig. 1 ) with data from Erika Dan ( 1962 ) and Knorr ( 1983 ) in a similar fashion ( but on a 0.25° latitudinal grid ) shows that there has been marked cooling since 1962 , averaging -0.42°C , whereas since 1983 there has been no change , presumably because the effects of the first renewal of LSW had already reached the Irminger Basin . |
| 19 | Because the temperature in the first half of the Symphony is less impassioned than in some rival performances , Ozawa has greater problems in delineating the dramatic contrast of mood which characterises the succeeding movements . |
| 20 | Whereas the emphasis in the first part of the research will be on the interaction between the construction of ideas about marriage and the ideologies and development of the marital agencies , the focus of the second part will narrow into a detailed case study of the activities and development of one organisation , the National Marriage Guidance Council . |
| 21 | In Barcelona and other localities the PSOE would need the IU as a coalition partner , while the PP for the first time won an overall majority in the city of Madrid . |
| 22 | B While the legends of the First Age are a ‘ calque ’ , then , their resemblance to a known pattern directs us primarily to difference from that pattern ; the elvishness of the elves is meant to reflect back on the humanity of man . |
| 23 | Thus the cell situated behind the main stem of the radius , near the base of the wing , is cell R , while the cell behind the first branch of the radius is cell R1 . |
| 24 | Since the publication of the first edition of this book , I have seen a remarkably similar rock of the same age — the Cupido Limestone — dominating the Mesozoic scenery in north-east Mexico . |
| 25 | The role of the scientific journal has not changed much in the 300 years since the publication of the first such journal , although greater dependence is placed on it than ever before , according to Osburn . |
| 26 | Even so , the advance of privatization was a notable shift in public debate , a great reversal of the growth of corporatism as it had rolled on , government after government , since the centralization of the First World War . |
| 27 | Up to 2,500 births a year in Britain result from artificial insemination by donor ( Teper and Symonds 1985 ) and since the birth of the first ‘ test tube ’ baby in 1978 there have been several hundred such births in Britain alone ( see Edwards 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Since the introduction of the first IBM 370 series processor in the late 70's , there has been a rapid growth in computerisation . |
| 29 | Of course , ever since the creation of the first ‘ grandes écoles in the eighteenth century , and the organization of ‘ I'Universite ’ by Napoleon , the state has been alma mater . |
| 30 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |