Example sentences of "acquired in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they allowed themselves to find had to fit logically with the knowledge about sewers they had acquired in the first half of the lesson . |
| 2 | To endorse the suggestion that information acquired during pre-exposure interferes with the use of that acquired during conditioning requires an attempt to specify the nature of the information acquired in the first phase . |
| 3 | An initial phase of discrimination training will establish a tendency to make certain ( different ) responses to the critical stimuli , but the change in the nature of the task for the second phase should mean that the specific response patterns acquired in the first phase will be irrelevant . |
| 4 | The interpretation put forward here is not fundamentally different from that offered by Jaynes when he suggested that a tendency to emit ( a fractional version of ) the response acquired in the first stage would serve as a mediating process in the second , and that the salience of the mediator would depend on the magnitude of the initial response of which it was a fraction . |
| 5 | Foundation skills are acquired in the first five years of life . |
| 6 | The three Portuguese pharmaceutical wholesalers acquired in the first half of 1992 made their first contribution , but disposing of the nappy-making business cost UniChem £2.4 million below the line . |