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

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1 Many of the latter are the forms mentioned in the first paragraph of this section as running parallel to the coast .
2 After all , our licence fee got the programmes made in the first place
3 The first section examines the institutions established during the first half-century of British rule .
4 In general , the patterns established in the First Temple Period were maintained .
5 There is no record of where the papingo was placed for the contests held during the first century of the Kilwinning Society of Archers .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun .
12 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 .
13 Their answers are more illuminating in this respect than the generalisation of the authors quoted in the first section of this paper .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 In the end the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Widgery , found for the publishers on the ground that , although confidentiality could be enforced in suitable cases , this was not a suitable case : the matters revealed in the first volume of the Diaries , being ten years old , were too stale to have any security aspect .
17 The costs incurred during the first year of oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation treatment were significantly greater than with endoscopic sclerotherapy ( £4369 v £1067 , p<0.0001 ) and the high rate of rebleeding in the surgical group meant that no cost savings occurred in subsequent years .
18 It was the products of American factories that kept the Allies supplied in the First World War ; it was American money that financed the Allied war effort and made the USA a creditor rather than a debtor nation by 1918 .
19 Of course , this is not even really a realistic option , because you 'd still have the impossible communication problem of getting the information out to the individuals involved in the first place , and then getting the answers back again and coordinating them to make some sort of over-all sense .
20 Another set of usages are concerned with policies and politics and employ the explanations generated in the first set of usages in their development .
21 Around 100 members and guests participated in the programmes , the first of which looked at the future economic development of Scotland while the second examined the social and political circumstances relating to the ambitions outlined in the first .
22 When in 1939 a repetition of the conditions encountered during the First World War once more led the government to intervene in agriculture then the conditions were also created for a renewed round of trade union growth .
23 By the early sixties … it was clear that neither the efforts made in the first post-war decade nor the developments outlined in Mr Butler 's White Paper were reducing — or were likely to reduce — the volume of crime or the numbers of persistent offenders .
24 That 's why they 're shown there , they 're different to the figures shown on the first page of the report , but because they 're calculated on the same base , er , one can compare at each other , one can compare the different towns .
25 A brief consideration of the problems encountered in the first months after September 1939 will illustrate this .
26 Yet in view of the problems discussed in the first section of this chapter , it will be necessary to disagree with a number of Landry 's principal arguments .
27 The third and final category is almost a superordinate to the other two in that it asks how all the changes implied in the first two aspects are being handled .
28 In the course of time , because they developed from human imagination to which there are no limits , the powers ascribed to the first ‘ gods ’ became exaggerated beyond all reason .
29 Tucson , Arizona-based Artisoft Inc warns that it expects its results for the third quarter to March 31 to be at break-even or slightly below — it expects to increase reserves and allowances , take one-time charges , and accelerate accruals by a pre-tax total of $1.5m to $2m , and it expects third quarter revenues to be below year-ago revenues of $20.3m ; it blames a shift in the sales mix for the revenue shortfall — ‘ Given the current trend toward the LANtastic software only option , the company is cautious in its expectations over the next several quarters for recovery in revenues and earnings to the levels achieved in the first and second quarter of the fiscal year , ’ the company said — it also offers it with adaptors .
30 Traditionally , acquired distinctiveness effects have been assessed by requiring the subjects to learn a test discrimination between the stimuli experienced in the first phase of training .
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