Example sentences of "the [adj] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , in the 1890s the British for the first time consistently encouraged headmen to report all cases . |
| 2 | Imagine if Mr Osborne were to try to sell the concept of milk , eggs or , heaven forbid , blue cheese to the British for the first time — how would you rate his chances ? |
| 3 | We were married eventually on 29 December in St Cuthbert 's Church , Edinburgh , in the little chapel which was a memorial to the fallen of the First World War . |
| 4 | The average family pays nearly £2,000 a year in interest on debts and mortgages , but last year we ran our household budgets in the black for the first time since the mid-Eighties — and managed to tuck away £10.6 billion in savings . |
| 5 | ‘ Stick players who try the Grand for the first time are surprised at how fast they adapt to it , ’ says inventor , manufacturer and player Emmett Chapman . |
| 6 | Ballymena did most of the pressing in the first period with their pack driving well in the loose and set scrums . |
| 7 | These roads not only allowed the fenlands to be exploited to the full for the first time , they also changed the way of life there , to an extent never seen before or since . |
| 8 | If this is a universal understanding of the grief process , how does the church assist the bereaved in the first stage of their loss , bearing in mind that many people who make little or no claim to Christian faith still look to the church to provide a fitting funeral rite ? |
| 9 | There is the objection , however , whatever else is to be said , that the third statement fails to follow from the first two only because of an ambiguity — and more precisely because the consequent of the first conditional is in fact not identical with the antecedent of the second . |
| 10 | The distinction is a very significant one , because all the great religions of the world have emphasized how important it is that religion and life are bound up together , that religion does not hive off into some remote corner unrelated to the real world ; all religions do bother about the secular in the first sense of the word — about how life is actually lived and what people are and do , and not just about what they say and believe . |
| 11 | For measuring perinatal mortality , the mortality of the new-born during the first week of life is sometimes distinguished as early neonatal mortality . |
| 12 | She has the whip-hand for the first time since the cock-up over the separation when they had to apologise for making it known that the knives were out for the Duchess . |
| 13 | Nor could Hitler 's speech on ‘ Heroes ’ Memorial Day ’ — the nazified remembrance of the dead of the First World War — on 15 March do much to improve morale . |
| 14 | The commemoration of the dead in the First World War was seen as a triumphalist commemoration of those who died for Britain . |