Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
2 | The rate of progress made in the first 20 years was only achieved by the geologists being in the field most of the year . |
3 | Within manufacture , the precise form of division depends in the first instance on the historical precursors of the capitalistic form of production in the given branch of industry — whether the ‘ manufacturer ’ ( a ) draws together previously separate trades into one workshop to produce a common product or ( b ) splits up a previously unified craft production process into its component tasks . |
4 | The total number of pieces of gum used in the first day should be gradually reduced over a subsequent period of ten days . |
5 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
6 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
7 | An Act of Parliament passed in the first year of his reign recited that great numbers of persons : |
8 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
9 | In order to protect the public from the charlatan or the quack , entry into the profession must be guarded , its standards polic-ed , and its rules of practice defined in the first instance by the profession itself … |
10 | Catholicism is presented as a potential remedy , but the philosophy of indeterminacy appears for the first time in this novel as a rival discourse . |
11 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
12 | Mauritania , still in dispute with Senegal , was not represented by its head of state , and there was no delegation from Nigeria , which had been represented in Casablanca in December 1988 [ p. 36717 ] ; however , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attended for the first time . |
13 | Three of those eight variables ( excluding Pugh score ) independently influenced patient survival in the logistic regression analysis : encephalopathy , Prothrombin time and units of blood transfused within the first 72 hours ( current model ) . |
14 | About two thirds of infections occur in the first five days and more than half of these are apparent at birth . |
15 | ( The Pentateuch or the Torah is the Law of Moses found in the first five books of the Old Testament . ) |
16 | A survey by Jordans has found that the number of companies created in the first half of this year was 3.1% lower than the same period last year . |
17 | By Article V of the Convention , the sultan promised to negotiate with the Serbs on their demands for freedom of worship ; the right to establish their own schools and printing presses ; the return of areas won during the first revolt and forcibly returned to Turkish rule in 1813 ; the right of Serbian merchants to trade freely throughout the Ottoman empire ; a prohibition on any new Turkish settlement outside the major towns ; and an increase in the powers of Serbian government . |
18 | Matthew 's theory drew upon a long tradition of applying evolutionism to the problems of biogeography begun by the first Darwinians . |
19 | ‘ I know it 's going to be a hard year and we 've still got a lot of work to do before the first European GP . |
20 | It has seen the consolidation of work commenced in the first year ; the forging ahead of ‘ key ’ enterprise activities university wide and the ‘ piloting ’ of a number of innovative projects . |
21 | ‘ One grain of corn placed on the first square on the board . |
22 | ( There are extremely instructive comparisons to be made between the films that make up Manvell 's ‘ Miscellany ’ and the ‘ pantheon ’ of directors listed in the first , 1962 , issue of Movie — the changes are an eloquently stark illustration of the massive reorientation of British film culture . ) |
23 | If the Bank refuses to accept these offers then the amount of assistance provided in the first round could be a long way short of the overall amount of assistance needed during the day . |
24 | When a group of individuals meets for the first time the process of group formation has begun . |
25 | I would also like to know how to get the Van Halen and Brian May sounds , and also the type of sound used on the first Extreme album , during the songs Watching , Waiting and Mutha as the distortion on both sounds smoother and less buzzy . |
26 | It is likely that there were windows of appearance located on the first floors of the Minoan temples , overlooking both West and Central Courts . |
27 | Specific activity was calculated from the slope of the linear incorporation of radioactivity observed during the first 25 min of the reaction . |
28 | When we set about trying to understand difficult discourse we often start with the kind of knowledge elicited by the first six questions . |
29 | The emphasis in Developments on boards being required to work within committee policies , and the changes of procedure envisaged in the first four items of the new model , did not mean automatic changes in the ‘ inspectoral ’ functions of the boards . |
30 | The level of orders received in the first quarter worsened compared with a year earlier , but turnover in the first quarter was up to the high levels of the year-ago quarter . |