Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if this is so we get the delightful result that instead of there being at least two radically different sorts of things in the world , sensory states and material objects , there is only one sort of thing , sensory states , and all putatively other sorts of thing are reducible to complexes of actual and possible things of the first sort . |
| 2 | Between 1893 and 1980 descendants of the first H.O . |
| 3 | There were ecstatic and emotional scenes at the first of NME 's ‘ Viva Eight ’ gigs in conjunction with the Spastics Society at London 's Town & Country Club on Tuesday night , when headliner Nick Cave assembled the surviving members of his legendary former line-up for a short set that comprised the classics ‘ Dead Joe ’ , ‘ Wild World ’ and ‘ Nick The Stripper ’ . |
| 4 | Particular attention is being paid to the major Indian rebellions which occurred there in the late colonial period ( 1780 and 1814 ) , to the role of southern Peru in the overthrow of Spanish rule ( in 1824 ) , and to political , social , and economic developments in the first three decades after independence . |
| 5 | The rise of the international business schools over the last decades and the substantial increase in the numbers of Third World students in the universities and technical institutes of the First World have provided an ever-increasing pool of potential local employees for the TNCs , and recruitment is brisk . |
| 6 | Most of us experience ‘ Monday morning blues ’ — the feeling of tiredness and low spirits on the first day back at work after the weekend of rest . |
| 7 | In the postwar period , many social thinkers , reckoning the terrible cost in death and suffering of the wars and civil wars of the first half of the twentieth century , have turned their attention increasingly toward the possibilities and modes of peaceful change . |
| 8 | Now the other young man never believed any of his professed and contradictory reasons in the first place . |
| 9 | This section sets out the procedures and standard letters for the first stage of the marketing process . |
| 10 | The house was bounded on its Culver Street frontage by Invicta Terrace — a row of thirteen identical dwellings having two rooms and a scullery downstairs and three bedrooms on the first floor , though none of the rooms were of any size . |
| 11 | And so , on the evening of 31 December 1962 , Jacob , Katherine and Leo waited in a living room decked in flowers and soft lights for the first guests to arrive . |
| 12 | The account describes the ‘ hospitals and open stables for the reception of diseased and sick horses in the first stage of their complaints ’ … ‘ more pure stables , which are taken up by horses in physic , or patients whose complaints are not contagious ’ … stocks where ‘ all operations are performed without the trouble or hazard of casting … a perfect skeleton of a horse , to refer to in cases of lameness , fractures , etc … various paddocks , some with and some without water for the better accommodation of horses of different descriptions , whose complaints require open air , or grass , for their perfect recovery ’ . |
| 13 | They queued patiently for lifts and ascended through a " Titanic cobweb " to find a choice of Parisian , Alsatian , Russian and Anglo-American restaurants on the first level and a bird's-eye view of the Seine sparkling beneath . |
| 14 | The fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) , led by Abbasi Madani , won control of a majority of municipal and provincial assemblies in the first multiparty poll since independence , held on June 12 . |
| 15 | In the meanwhile , the cautious and complex decrees of the first liberalising steps decided last year were ratified by the Prime Minister last month . |
| 16 | We will provide £55 million towards the preparation of the site and key facilities in the first stage of the bid , and we will ensure that the project , whether successful or not , contributes to the effective regeneration of East Manchester . |
| 17 | At endoscopy , an average of two biopsy specimens were taken from the anterior and posterior walls of the first part of the duodenum , and immediately fixed in a solution of 10% formalin/ saline . |
| 18 | To repay the banks , Latin American countries exported more and more goods over the first half of the 1980s . |
| 19 | Both the Prime Minister and the caterer , Clare Latimer , have won a public apology and undisclosed damages in the first round of their libel battle . |
| 20 | THE Prime Minister and the caterer , Clare Latimer , were yesterday given a public apology and undisclosed damages in the first round of their libel claims over allegations of an affair between them . |
| 21 | His tenderness towards his many children ( perhaps fifteen in all , of whom a son and five daughters of the first marriage , and two sons and two daughters of the second marriage are certainly known ) was a notable characteristic . |
| 22 | Lacking such belief , will not Labour be wrested from its pragmatic and up-to-date policies at the first whiff of hot breath on Prime Minister Kinnock 's neck ? |
| 23 | Both sides ' form has dipped but Newcastle might just be the more resilient , with McDermott adding : ‘ We are used to this — when you are a club the size of Newcastle and runaway leaders in the first division , every game is a pressure game . |
| 24 | Against the evidence of the German authorities and the German police , and given that even the Israeli secret service thinks that others may have been involved , would it not at least be a sensible plan to talk to the Arab League about the very serious problem of Lockerbie and at least consider accepting the request to send British and American judges in the first instance to a trial under Libyan law ? |
| 25 | The Russian conquest of northern Eurasia , which developed from the north-eastward territorial expansion of Novgorod and then Moscow , reached beyond the Urals into Asia only some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico , and twenty years before the first french and English colonies were founded in North America . |
| 26 | Yesterday , Alison , her husband Jim , Kate , Tom , and other members of the first UK medical expedition to the world 's highest mountain , gathered near the Nevis Range chairlift , on Aonach Mor , near Fort William . |
| 27 | The children , their father Jim and other members of the first UK medical expedition to Everest , were on Aonach Mor , near Fort William , yesterday where they set up an imitation base camp for the benefit of the press and potential sponsors . |
| 28 | The main building has a dining-room , kitchen , TV-lounge and reading-room on the ground floor , and a lecture theatre , two seminar rooms , bursar 's flat and two toilets on the first floor . |
| 29 | One hit was scored against Scharnhorst , but both ships hit the old liner time and time again and 14 minutes after the first shot , it was all over . |
| 30 | CORONER 'S REPORT , SECTION 224 : Lepine was seen on the campus at least ten times before December 6 : in September at the student co-op , then three times the next month in the Polytechnic building , in November at the administrative building , and four times in the first week of December , and the last time in the cafeteria on the ground floor . |