Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb pp] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Many of the latter are the forms mentioned in the first paragraph of this section as running parallel to the coast .
3 Theory 3 — That the West had been too lax in the post-war years and had blind faith in the hope that the unity achieved after the first World War would be re-kindled .
4 After all , our licence fee got the programmes made in the first place
5 The first section examines the institutions established during the first half-century of British rule .
6 In general , the patterns established in the First Temple Period were maintained .
7 If a home does not meet the minimum standard , the owner will be able to claim back all the money spent within the first year after purchase on raising it to that level , through , for example , home insulation , up to the amount of stamp duty they paid when they bought the property ( up to the maximum of £1000 ) .
8 The council later abandoned its plans to widen the highway and the reversion passed to the first defendants , who were not a highway authority .
9 Moreover , the contract compared with the first operation some three years ago was most significant .
10 There is no record of where the papingo was placed for the contests held during the first century of the Kilwinning Society of Archers .
11 Participants will review the proposals outlined during the first such consultation , held in Buenos Aires in July 1990 , and discuss ways of putting them into practice .
12 The aims of the research are : to undertake a wide-ranging review of the priority assessment techniques applied by local authorities to transport projects ; to apply a representative sample of the techniques to a common set of projects ; and to distill the experience gained through the first two stages , together with knowledge of recent developments in the theory and practice of multiple criteria analysis into a computer-based priority assessment package .
13 For example , one of the skills developed in the first few years of life involves the integration of data arriving through the different sensory channels .
14 We will investigate the ways in which the NMGC has adjusted to the shifts analysed in the first part of the research , in respect to relations with central government and other agencies as well as in its professional practice management .
15 A second legal mortgage can be created by leasing the land to the second mortgagee for a term longer by at least one day than the term limited to the first mortgagee .
16 In at least two of the areas I visited the regional health authority and some of the first wave fundholders were wrangling over the savings accrued during the first year .
17 The candidates eliminated in the first round were Heide Schmidt , 43 , of the Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) , and Robert Jungk , 78 , the Green Alternative candidate .
18 We do the same for the submatrix bordered by the first row and column , and so on , so that finally we reach the unit matrix as the canonical form for A. It is to be observed that , since in using elementary operations I ( i , j ) , I(k) , I(l) on A we are effectively at each stage multiplying together determinants neither of which vanishes , the reduction of A to I must be possible when A is on-singular .
19 In most cat books , the figure given for the first domestication of the cat is between 3,500 and 4,500 years ago .
20 The elections were thus marked by a high rate of abstention : only 38.89 per cent of the electorate voted in the first round and 33.38 per cent in the second .
21 More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun .
22 Because of the way in which this relief is given , the managers would wish to " front load " the losses sustained into the first year of trading , which they may be able to achieve by incurring expenditure for which capital allowances are available .
23 Their answers are more illuminating in this respect than the generalisation of the authors quoted in the first section of this paper .
24 Special provision should be made for the 2,000 or so full-time adult education staff , including LEA organizers , along the lines suggested in the first Haycocks Report .
25 With a piercing whine and a cough , the engine caught on the first ignition .
26 Erm the actual percentage of the ingredients used over the first year erm is about five percent for water , twenty three point six percent for the bottle , I 'll explain that later that 's quite high , the cap is four percent , one percent for the gassing , erm one percent for the case , two point seven percent for labour , four percent for transport , a general overhead would be about seventeen point one percent .
27 Assays using antibodies L289 and LW60 provide the capacity to detect intact progastrin ( without any processing ) or the fragment produced after the first endopeptidase cleavage .
28 Early in 1914 , the Board felt it advisable to appoint a House Committee to deal with the day-to-day affairs of the Institution , and the committee met for the first time on 28th April with Mr. W. T. Lansberry in the chair .
29 The Committee met for the first time in Edinburgh in October 1979 .
30 The committee met for the first time on August 12 , to define its aims and draw up a policy programme for the future .
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