Example sentences of "the [n mass] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally I think that the answer is for manufacturers such as Olivetti to not pass the buck to the dealer using the excuse that it is the dealer who made the buck in the first place ! |
| 2 | ‘ I always wanted to tackle the overcrowding in Darlington which is why I provided the £243,000 in the first place . |
| 3 | This means that initial conditions need to be specified so as to provide the data for the first set of calculations . |
| 4 | The first 5 portfolios ( P 1 to P 5 ) use the data from the first part of Table 6.6(a) . |
| 5 | Their results and the data from the first stage will be used to test how far and in what way the experience of the NICs can be a model for their successors . |
| 6 | Although the data from the first study are still being analysed , initial results are promising . |
| 7 | The only difference would be that the government would pay a private firm to provide the data in the first place . |
| 8 | possessing the head and torso of a man and the body and legs of a potent stallion , centaurs were the offspring of the first King of Thessaly and the cloud Nephele . |
| 9 | Such educated guesswork can be eliminated if you can actually see the fish in the first place . |
| 10 | It may prove an effective contraceptive , but what effect will it have on the ‘ worms ’ who produce the sperm in the first place ? |
| 11 | The first bar , beginning with E and C , would seem set to create a tonality of C major , but this is immediately contradicted by the F-F of the first violin . |
| 12 | Martino 's ambition to reunite the series for the first time in thirty years has , however , been thwarted by the refusal of Sophia Loren to loan ‘ Study for a Pope V ’ , but the exhibition reassembles the remaining five canvases , including the version owned by the Musei Vaticani . |
| 13 | Edward England , who inspired the series in the first place , has left Hodders , and I took my leave of St. John 's in 1975 in order to become Rector of St. Aldate 's Church , Oxford . |