Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insurance group Guardian Royal Exchange broke new ground by publishing a review by its auditors , also Price Waterhouse , of the interim results for the first half of 1992 ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 17 ) . |
| 2 | This order of magnitude of improvements is reflected in the interim results from the first ten projects . |
| 3 | St Patrick 's High School Ballymena defeated North-eastern rivals St MacNissi 's to reach the Junior semi-finals for the first time . |
| 4 | This new notion of defeasibility seems to allow ( probably ) that I now know that my children are playing in the garden , because the second added truth negates the defeating powers of the first . |
| 5 | Among the painted sculptures from the first decade of his activity as an abstract artist are ‘ Midday ’ ( 1960 , MOMA , New York ) , ) , ‘ Prairie ’ ( 1967 , NGA , Washington ) and ‘ Early One Morning ’ ( 1962 ) which the Tate Gallery was persuaded to loan only after Caro had agreed to supervise its restoration at the end of the exhibition . |
| 6 | This tension originated in the political ambitions of the first ruler of Transjordan , the Amir Abdallah , grandfather of King Husayn . |
| 7 | It has been proposed by several workers that trench nephritis was caused by hantavirus , although the classic descriptions from the First World War do not tally closely with the variants of hantavirus infection that have been described in the past 40 years . |
| 8 | Just the splendid staircase leading up to the three doorways at the entrance and above that the tall windows of the first floor gallery , all open to the sky , gazing on emptiness . |
| 9 | The spacious premises on the first floor were completely reorganised including a new studio where our designer Jacquie Taylor , is able to work with potential customers creating individual designs on the new H.C.S. desk top computer . |
| 10 | The adoral shields are short slightly larger than wide with the proximal edge at nearly right angles to the jaw : they do not separate the oral shields from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 11 | The adoral shields are flared distally and separate the oral shields from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 12 | The specific objectives of the first phase of the Program , the pilot project , therefore , are ( I ) an appraisal of a structure established for the purpose of attaining this coordination , ( 2 ) an exploration of new methods of relating the library to the instructional program , and ( 3 ) a preliminary assessment of the effectiveness of these methods . |
| 13 | The better approach , in my opinion , is to eat the right foods in the first place . |
| 14 | This system has been evolving for centuries , first for bourgeoisies all over the world , then spreading to the working classes in the First World , and slowly but surely penetrating to all those with disposable income everywhere . |
| 15 | We find that : ( i ) there is disutility from being unemployed , with individuals disliking unemployment even more after the first three months ; ( ii ) unemployment benefits have no effect on the behaviour of the unemployed individuals after the first three months ; ( iii ) income receipts other than unemployment benefits and earnings have only a very small effect ; ( iv ) the conditional probability of leaving the unemployment spell shows no sign of decreasing with duration for most of the members of our sample , while 50% of the teenage men have an increasing hazard ; ( v ) the effects of unemployment benefits on the expected duration varies with age ; the average elasticity of 0.12 is much smaller than those estimated by NNS and NN , who used the same data set but different models . |
| 16 | They were the raised arms of the first shamans ; the broken horns of the first stag ; the broken memory of the fiercest winter . |
| 17 | In his discussion of The Legal Aspects of Sanitary Reform , Edward Jenkins includes an account of newly built cottages in the East End of London in the 1860s , where the contents of an adjacent cesspool were actually being used to make mortar for further dwellings , crammed into the back gardens of the first . |
| 18 | The tree was gleaming green with new foliage that had broken out from the charred branches of the first encounter between the English and the islanders . |
| 19 | The instrumental publications of the first decade of the seventeenth century , by Christoph Demantius , Melchior Franck , Valentin Haussmann consist almost exclusively of pavanes , galliards , Intraden ( pavane-like processional pieces ) , and Polish dances . |
| 20 | Portsmouth against Swindon … 13 goal Guy Whittingham … takes on 11 goal Craig Maskell … they 're the top scorers in the first division … what a head to head … |
| 21 | But as the gauntleted hands of the first trooper made a grab for her hair , Christine felt an empty sensation in the pit of her stomach . |
| 22 | The new organizations catering for this were to be economically more efficient and culturally more bland than the popular movements of the first half of the century . |
| 23 | He gave the pope an account of the evidence that had been brought forward , giving first place , and by far the greatest amount of space , to the testimony of Bede 's Ecclesiastical History , which showed that the archbishops of Canterbury , acting on the authority of Pope Gregory I and his successors , had exercised general authority over the whole of the British Isles during the first hundred and forty years of its existence : they had consecrated bishops for all parts of the country , summoned councils , deposed unworthy bishops , and had been generally responsible for spreading Catholic discipline into Wales and Scotland . |
| 24 | GAVIN HASTINGS leads the British Lions into the first Test against New Zealand 's All Blacks tomorrow determined to give British sports fans something to cheer . |
| 25 | It was the largest movement of peoples since the tribal wanderings of the first millennium . |
| 26 | The weight percentage retained on the coarsest sieve is plotted at the appropriate grain diameter , the sum of weight percentages retained in the two coarsest sieves is plotted at the next finer mesh , the cumulative contents of the first three sieves at the next finer mesh and so on until the entire sediment has been accounted for at 100% . |
| 27 | Its immediate origins have to be seen mainly as an ultra-conservative response to the social consequences of the first World War . |
| 28 | A common factor in the two studies concerning assessment by non-medically qualified staff is that the social workers in the first study and the nurses in the second had a special interest in dealing with attempted suicide patients . |
| 29 | If A11 = 0 we can bring any non-zero element to the A11 position by the use of I we can then reduce this element to unity by the use of I(l) , and then reduce all the remaining elements of the first row and the first column to zero using I(k) . |
| 30 | No French cantatas are as tonally wayward , although the keys chosen for the principal movements in the first book ( 1706 ) of Jean-Baptiste Stuck , one of the pioneers of the genre , and who claimed in his preface simply to be joining French words to Italian music , hint at a similar approach ( table 1 ) . |