Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | From these summarized findings it is possible to derive tentative profiles of the activities of the first three teams . |
| 2 | The senders of the first six cards out of the back pocket on March 15 will be the winners . |
| 3 | The senders of the first six correct entries attended a cookery course run by the book 's two authors , and , at Leith 's School of Food and Wine . |
| 4 | Closing date is Wednesday , August 12 , and the prizes will go to the senders of the first two correct entries drawn . |
| 5 | The senders of the first five correct entries drawn on that day will each win a copy of the book . |
| 6 | The senders of the first five correct puzzles opened next Friday will each be sent a copy of the book . |
| 7 | As a final bonus , the senders of the first 500 entries received each month will be sent a 50p money-off voucher redeemable against any future purchase of Guinness Original . |
| 8 | The senders of the first 500 correct entries picked out the hat on that date will become Tizer Club members and get their super Tizer Club kits . |
| 9 | The senders of the first three questionnaires pulled out of the postbag will each win a Delight personal diet analysis and healthy eating programme . |
| 10 | So to while away those lonely winter nights , we 've arranged ( with Virgin Vision ) for 90-minute videos of red Ben live in action to go to the senders of the first 20 correct entries . |
| 11 | So to while away those lonely winter nights , we 've arranged ( with Virgin Vision ) for 90-minute videos of red Ben live in action to go to the senders of the first 20 correct entries . |
| 12 | The 20 foot roof above our heads provided perfect shelter for all eventualities , so we decided to share our last scraps of food in another bivouac after fixing the ropes on the first two pitches above the terrace . |
| 13 | In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks . |
| 14 | In the remainder of the cases in the first two teams , either no service was offered , service was declined by the client , or the assessment was preempted in some way ( for example , by the client entering hospital ) . |
| 15 | The optimist would point out that the aggregate attendance for the two Tests so far — 31,310 — compares very favourably with the aggregates for the first two Tests of 1980 ( 17,977 ) , and 1985 ( 28,097 ) . |
| 16 | Thus , at one stage in the meetings of the first International ( September 1864 ) , the followers of the French socialist , Proudhon , opposed any movements for national independence on the grounds that the concept of the nation was already obsolete . |
| 17 | From the earlier analysis , the effect of the taxes via the first parenthetical term on the right-hand side of /8–57' ) depends on where we have used ( 8–48 ) and ( 8–49 ) . |
| 18 | Alan Shearer wore the number ten shirt with high hopes of scoring the goals in the first international since the retirement of Gary Lineker . |
| 19 | Which is more than can be said of the successors of the first Labour government , elected just when the Elmhirsts arrived at the bankrupt farms and derelict buildings of Dartington . |
| 20 | It is the consort for which Morley and Rosseter published their Lessons and which supports the voices in the first seventeen of Sir William Leighton 's Teares or Lamentacions of a Sorrowfull Soule ( 1614 ) . |
| 21 | As kite-makers and everyday enthusiasts for kite flying , the Peacock family of St.Albans had also been the winners over the first two years of the Kite Society 's Rokkaku Challenge . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) Give a simple description of the document : eg conveyance instead of indenture for old deeds , etc. ( 3 ) Give the names of the parties in the first abstracted deed , but where these recur ( as , for example , where a buyer becomes a seller , or where personal representatives become sellers ) give initials only , so that after the first deed the seller , etc , of an abstracted document will commonly be shown by initials and so indicate that there is an unbroken chain of title . |
| 23 | It is difficult to assess the effects of the first true humans in rain forests but it has been argued that the Australian aborigines may have been responsible for the removal of some of the Araucaria forest of tropical Queensland , leading to the advance of Eucalyptus there , as well as locally exterminating much of the megafauna . |
| 24 | To take a single example , it is reported that the grandchildren of the first European colonists of North America already had eyelid-shapes tending towards those of the Red Indians , which were better adapted to looking out over vast spaces in bright sunlight . |
| 25 | This decade , which saw the arrival in London of Spencer Stuart , Boyden and Heidrick and Struggles , also witnessed the origins of the first home-grown headhunters . |
| 26 | A large brood is spawned , and it is recommended some of the developing fry be removed from the parents within the first two weeks of them becoming free-swimming , so as to achieve a high survival rate . |
| 27 | Having set forth the accepted Turkish tradition concerning the early Muftilik and having reviewed in some detail the lives of the first three Muftis , one may now pass on to a consideration in more general terms of the validity of the tradition and of such important problems as the reasons for the creation of the institution and the nature of the early Muftilik , problems which are either not dealt with at all by Turkish writers or are dealt with only in the vaguest terms . |
| 28 | It was only in the days of the first widespread alphabetic culture that the idea of ‘ logic ’ appears to have arisen . |
| 29 | Thus , for the purposes of the first three categories , sexual intercourse is defined gender neutrally to include penetration of the vagina or anus by any part of the body or by an object , introduction of the penis into the mouth and cunnilingus as well as the continuation of any such intercourse . |
| 30 | Comparison of the contents of the first two editions of Craig 's ‘ Geology of Scotland ’ , published in 1965 and 1983 , reveals just how completely and all-pervasively this change took place over a very short period of time . |