Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [conj] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the PHLS warned that the first six months of the year were always lower risk times because of the colder weather , and said figures for the third-quarter could be higher . |
| 2 | In the way it is said that the Tour de France does not really begin until it reaches the Alps , the cognoscenti contend that the first 63 holes are jockeying for position . |
| 3 | The boat lurched as the first real waves lifted the bow and dropped it again . |
| 4 | She had let the lines go when the first brutal snap had straightened the nylon , and stood glancing back at me and staring up into the sky as I fought to control the power in the skies above us . |
| 5 | The Battle of the Atlantic began when the first ship was sunk within 12 hours of the declaration of war in 1939 . |
| 6 | The group laughed as the first strains of a Hungarian pop group wailed from the hall . |
| 7 | She wanted to do this on her own and the therapist suggested that the first session took place 2 days later to assess her progress . |
| 8 | The legend goes that the first church was started at the bottom of the hill , but during the night the walls were thrown down . |
| 9 | The battle was fought out in three short Parliaments which met between 1679 and 1681 , after which politics was driven out-of-doors for the rest of the reign , whilst during the period of the Tory Reaction a successful campaign of legal recriminations taken against the political enemies of the Court meant that the first Whigs as a political movement were almost destroyed . |
| 10 | The court held that the first defendant 's negligence was a cause of the death and he was held 25% responsible . |
| 11 | Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep . |
| 12 | The game continues until the first player is back at the front . |
| 13 | But the news broadcast after the first missile attack failed to mention it . |
| 14 | Although the government reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and equipment , the cost is so far proving light for Mr Average . |
| 15 | Accordingly he submitted that if the jury accepted that the first appellant had murdered the deceased , then it necessarily followed that they should have acquitted the second appellant . |
| 16 | The numbers mean that the first bulb flashes every 12 seconds , the next every 8 seconds , and the third every 6 seconds . |
| 17 | He says all they did was just put it in for storage and then wait for the police to call but the first he heard was on Monday . |
| 18 | The recent greening of the world means that the first clover of summer is greeted with an enthusiasm previously reserved for the cuckoo . |
| 19 | The company said that the first six months of the year ‘ have seen more new business than during any previous period ’ . |