Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the tales and sketches included in the First and Second Series were extensively revised , and sometimes retitled , from their first periodical appearance . |
| 2 | It is thus possible , indeed common , for each of two rival lineages to claim , as the British and Germans did in the First World War , that ‘ God is on our side ’ . |
| 3 | After the violent conditions that erm we think occurred in the early life of the earth and injected energy and churned up the atmosphere and formed the prebiotic molecules , we find that just those same molecules are actually in the clouds in space , and these clouds are the basic raw material from which stars and plants form in the first place , so we might ask the question could they have got into the earth 's atmosphere without this intermediate process , and I think there are mechanisms whereby these molecules can accrete into the earth 's atmosphere , and it certainly suggests that we should look at thse and certainly not be taken as a foregone conclusion that the Uray/Miller experiments are the only mechanism whereby the prebiotic soup was formed . |
| 4 | History in the making at Barbados : West Indian and South African players and officials meet for the first time in a Test match . |
| 5 | The independence of the people 's committees was not ultimately compatible with communist rule in north Korea and problems occurred in the first few months of communist dominance . |
| 6 | With the widespread translation of Early Irish stories into English around the turn of the century a younger generation of Irishmen and women discovered for the first time a fresh and potent source of images to define their sense of nationality . |
| 7 | On Feb. 14 , however , Nichol met representatives of the Association of Chief Ambulance Officers , and on Feb. 20 management and unions met for the first time since October in a session with the Advisory , Conciliation and Arbitration Service ( ACAS ) . |
| 8 | All telescopes and binoculars swivelled at the first shout of ‘ Merlin ! ’ and trained on the dashing raptor . |