Example sentences of "by the [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the DEA had used it to provide a cover identity for somebody in Egypt , it could hardly admit that in open court or explain how it had come by the certificate in the first place . |
| 2 | Politically , the office of postmaster had additional value , for much of the minor patronage was filled by the Treasury upon the first significant application , and here timely notification of a death , or a serious illness , was essential . |
| 3 | The floating-point accumulator must now be double-length , and operands are specified by the address of the first store location in the pair . |
| 4 | Final family size is strongly affected by the timing of the first birth ( Brass 1974 ) . |
| 5 | The chair was occupied by the Geikies for the first 43 years of its existence . |
| 6 | Contradictions in the novel justify contradictions sustained by the reading , despite having been produced by the reading in the first place . |
| 7 | On the other hand the second part of the trial may be rendered wholly unnecessary by the decision on the first part . |
| 8 | Before she was even elected to serve the people of this estate , Coun Ms Buttle was already threatening industrial action by the buses at the first public meeting we attended a year ago . |
| 9 | The French continued to feel excluded from the topmost " allied " table of defence planning , and understandably feared that their territory was regarded as expendable by the Anglo-Saxons in the first phase of a war . |
| 10 | Around 242 homes were sold by the company in the first half of this year . |
| 11 | It is the dorsal ganglionic centre of the head ; its nerve-cells are almost entirely association neurons and it is formed by the coalescence of the first three neuromeres in the embryo . |
| 12 | They interpreted this finding as showing that associability lost by the stimulus during the first stage of training could outweigh the transfer deriving from the fact that both stage of the study involved inhibitory learning . |
| 13 | It can be argued that ‘ normalizing ’ the marked English structure is not a good strategy in this instance and that a slightly different but similarly marked Arabic structure ( using a particle such as inna ) would have preserved the prominence given by the writer to the first part of the statement ( Mr Rowland wants ) and still sounded natural in Arabic : |
| 14 | The inquiry was ordered into the Glasgow Paddock Selling Hurdle on December 12 , 1987 after allegations of interference by the riders of the first and second horses . |
| 15 | The car had previously been in a collision caused by the negligence of the first defendant . |
| 16 | The evil ‘ Mother ’ is now transferred to the opposite side and is the Mother of all the Aliens , hinted at by the eggs in the first film . |
| 17 | Consequently , a member state would be bound to authorise the registration of a vessel of nationals of another member state only if those nationals were entitled , in the light of those criteria , to benefit by the quotas of the first member state . |
| 18 | All that went by the board with the first wave of redundancies . |
| 19 | He spent six months in America working in and visiting nurseries and botanical gardens — a trip made possible by the award of the first Bowles Memorial Scholarship by the RHS . |
| 20 | It builds on work undertaken by the researcher on the first generation in Leicester , thus providing a basis for intergenerational comparison . |
| 21 | It was marked by the presence for the first time at the UN of Russian President Boris Yeltsin . |
| 22 | The lengthy section in the same report on the persecution of the Jews in Germany began by stating that what was currently taking place was the ‘ irresistible extermination of a minority ’ , comparable to the genocide against the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War but carried out in Germany against the Jews ‘ more slowly and in more planned fashion ’ , adding accurately that ‘ in reality a lawless situation has long prevailed , through which every act of force against the Jewish minority is sanctioned ’ . |
| 23 | The indigenous population , comprising Christian Armenians and Islamic tribesmen of mainly Central Asian , Turkish and Persian origin , were alternately subjected to periods of persecution and forced conversion ( or extermination ) , depending on whether Christian Russia or one of the Islamic countries was in control ; this culminated in the widespread slaughter and deportation of the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War . |
| 24 | ( It is interesting to note that freshwater pearls were known to the Chinese by the beginning of the first millennium B.C. ) |
| 25 | However , an indefinite postponement was ordered by the judge on the first morning of the proceedings because of the danger posed by a violent protest against the trial which was taking place outside the courthouse . |
| 26 | We show that the main early and late promoters from the Bacillus subtilis phage φ29 form unstable open complexes that are stabilized either by the formation of the first phosphodiester bond between the initiating nucleoside triphosphates or by DNA supercoiling . |
| 27 | Dr Runcie repeated his offer of a limited primacy , involving the limited powers exercised by the popes in the first few centuries of the Christian Church . |
| 28 | Introduced by the government for the first time in the Local Government Bill , the county consists of only two districts and is dominated by Cardiff which at the time contained ‘ just about the only pocket of Conservative Party strength in south Wales ’ ( Wond 1976 : 127 ) . |
| 29 | It is a history of morale boosting , of public money being made available from various sources from 1918 onwards : to enrich the life in remote villages in danger of being deserted by the exodus after the First World War ; to occupy the unemployed in the 1930s on Tyneside ; to counter the dreary effect of the ‘ blackout ’ during the Second World War ( this was the first instance in this country of government subsidy ) ; to bring a sense of wellbeing to the community during the difficult years following the war ; and in particular , to occupy bored young people . |
| 30 | ‘ By the look of the first issues it will suppress itself . ’ |