Example sentences of "that [verb] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
| 2 | The age distribution of known opioid users was similar to that found in the first survey , with 69 per cent being aged between 16 and 24 years ( compared to 75 per cent in 1984–5 ) . |
| 3 | The first point is that , of the five people generally named in any discussion of the generation gap theory , four are Free Presbyterians , which is a similar concentration to that found in the first generation of Paisley activists . |
| 4 | The judge in the later case finds some relevant fact in that case of sufficient importance to justify a different approach from that adopted in the first decision . |
| 5 | In order to distinguish the conditioned response ( CR ) of the test stage from that acquired in the first stage of discrimination training , the nature of the reinforcer was changed , from appetitive to aversive . |
| 6 | The importance of the vital actions drill may even be undermined in the eyes of the student if the instructor insists on a complete check of each control movement for every flight ( stick to the left , left aileron up , right aileron down , stick to the right , etc. ) , since it is clear that things like this can not change between flights , and the majority of experienced pilots only do that check on the first flight of the day . |