Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DUAO was calculated as the difference between the urine H + /creatinine molar ratio of the urine sample collected after basal acid secretion , and that of the first urine sample passed after gastric stimulation . |
| 2 | It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ … |
| 3 | Any upturn in demand also produces a substantial improvement in profit in several other of our businesses , for instance Westminster Press , Les Echo Lazards Tussaud and I 'd like to remind people that we 're a very second half oriented company and that in the first half of nineteen ninety two we had some major one-off contributions to profits which very much helped the figures , but nonetheless , we 're pleased at the way the trading profits of the operating companies are moving . |
| 4 | DEC and IBM will follow along with support for Chinese and Korean in the first quarter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No one familiar with the performance of domestic industry in most countries outside and some inside the First World would be surprised by this but , even so , one might wonder why the figures for local sourcing are quite so low when local materials and components are available . |
| 7 | Hazel and his companions had spent the night doing everything that came unnaturally to them , and this for the first time . |
| 8 | You know you have to do something but are unclear and afraid of the first step . |
| 9 | So I could always go up there and I used there little drill for one thing and another in the first place and er built that premise for me there did and I did er |
| 10 | The top layer was built , that you saw in the photograph , was built later , so 31 and 32 had two rooms , erm on the ground floor , and 2 on the first floor , 33 , which was smaller , but it does have a fair sized room , and another upstairs , and then the very small one is 34 . |
| 11 | ICI will be able to stop manufacturing CFCs 11 and 12 in the first quarter of next year , having secured supplies for its remaining customers through a deal with Akzo . |
| 12 | Humphrey Lyttelton recounts : ‘ We brought along with us a strong contingent from Camberwell Art School , and John Minton , now recognised as a distinguished painter , was among the most formidable and dangerous of the first school of dancers . ’ |
| 13 | Apologies for absence , minutes of the previous meeting , agenda , jokes and folksy parables bored one and all for the first half-hour . |
| 14 | Of the eleven who won the Cup for Manchester United in 1948 , most of whom were internationals and all in the first rank of senior professionals , five went into football coaching and management , three ran newsagents ' shops ( customers presumably enjoyed discussing the sports headlines with men who had once made them ) , two worked in factories , and one became a night-telephonist . |
| 15 | ‘ Halziel and Lingary , ’ he says , staring at me , and he looks really concerned , worried and harried and tired for the first time ; yes , it 's all change here in Paddington Green . |
| 16 | Scores of one and 25 in the first Test at Calcutta were in line with his dismal average of 17 , but in the first innings of the second Test in Madras , he at last showed signs of mastering the Indian spinners . |
| 17 | Beck , who had defeated Aki Ohmachi of Japan 8 and 6 in the first round , was heading for an even bigger defeat . |
| 18 | We say that if food is good and wholesome in the first place , we do n't need irradiation . |
| 19 | The seating in these open vehicles was two and one in the first class and the third . |
| 20 | Hull , with three successive defeats behind them and 12th in the First Division , face Hull KR on Friday and Castleford on Monday in their final two games which will determine whether they continue their 13-year run in the division . |
| 21 | The antecedent and consequent of the first sentence do not , in this context , function to express disapproval either of polygamists or of Solomon . |
| 22 | The most tangible signs of this tendency to borrow more are highlighted in the Central Statistical Office 's Social Trends 1989 , which showed that household expenditure exceeded income in 1986 and 1987 for the first time since compilation of the information began . |
| 23 | The most tangible signs of this tendency to borrow more are highlighted in the Central Statistical Office 's Social Trends 1989 , which showed that household expenditure exceeded income in 1986 and 1987 for the first time since compilation of the information began . |
| 24 | For Weir , who like Kerr had a modest tour , the biggest personal highlights came when he scored 37 and 40 in the first Test match . |
| 25 | Captain Kim Barnett and the Peter Bowler the batsman putting on a hundred and two for the first wicket . |
| 26 | He advocated the combined system and regretted that , at the very moment when state aid was going to be available for the education of the deaf and dumb for the first time , oral teaching was recommended by the Report of the Royal Commission . |
| 27 | Middlesbrough were edgy and frustrating in the first half against a Bristol side without promotion or relegation pressure . |
| 28 | Previous attempts to do this had always foundered on the fact that the fun usually resulted pretty soon in procreation but at this very time field trials of the contraceptive pill were taking place which would soon make the division practical and permanent for the first time in history . |
| 29 | Everything up there 's a complete write-off , and most of the first floor 's in pretty bad shape . |