Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] that the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The legend goes that the first church was started at the bottom of the hill , but during the night the walls were thrown down . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The court held that the first defendant 's negligence was a cause of the death and he was held 25% responsible . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The recent greening of the world means that the first clover of summer is greeted with an enthusiasm previously reserved for the cuckoo . |
| 8 | The company said that the first six months of the year ‘ have seen more new business than during any previous period ’ . |