Example sentences of "the end [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the normal minister of baptism , the president of the eucharistic assembly , ‘ blamelessly offering the gifts ’ as the first epistle of Clement put it ( before the end of the first century ) . |
| 2 | There is no evidence that all jurists early practised toleration of defective trusts , for we have seen that up to the end of the first century at least there was opposition to allowing them validity . |
| 3 | By the end of the first century all the tribal capitals had their gridded street plan laid out and work had started on the public buildings . |
| 4 | These questions are partially answered , quite explicitly , by the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas , a very early work dating probably from the end of the first century . |
| 5 | They attracted increased attention soon after the Roman conquest , so much so that by the end of the first century the great sanctuary and classical temple dedicated to Sulis Minerva , together with the bathing establishment , had been fully developed . |
| 6 | It will inevitably happen for some that Housman 's Horace is not the reader 's Horace , and that readers will grumble and go in search of more and later Englishings — for it seems we must " English " this poet again and again if we are to keep up with him where he stands still , at the end of the first century BC . |
| 7 | The performance of Durga Lal in the title role is a masterpiece of versatility and concentration : his delirium at the end of the first act is nothing short of hair-raising . |
| 8 | In the first place , I always threatened the orchestra that if they played too loudly I would simply lower them by ten centimetres ; and if they continued , then by the end of the first act they would be in the dungeon . |
| 9 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , ’ said the Company Manager , ‘ you may already have heard that Miss Decker was taken ill at the end of the first act . |
| 10 | Ever since the end of the First Crusade in 1100 and the unsuccessful conclusion of the Second in 1184 , the tiny Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem — Outremer or the Land Beyond the Sea — had maintained a slender toehold on the eastern seaboard of the Holy Land . |
| 11 | Then , in a dream-like sequence at the end of the first half , they are seen raiding the nursery at Rossillion , where they proceed to plunge their swords into a defenceless rocking-horse . |
| 12 | Five of those minutes came at the end of the first half , allowing Hein to score the first of his morale-boosting tries for Oxford in the right corner . |
| 13 | By the end of the first half all of us had sweat pouring down our faces . |
| 14 | The difference from six months before was that The O'Neils were near the end of the first half instead of being just after the opening . |
| 15 | The lead only stood until the end of the first half , however , as Mutineers ' Lyn Knowles was fouled shooting and then scored from the resulting penalty . |
| 16 | ; whereas from the end of the first half of 1979 to the third quarter of 1991 , there has been an increase of nearly 6 per cent . |
| 17 | The end of the first half of The Form is concerned with clarifying the ordering of inner life — laying the fire — through an analysis of the human capacity for sin . |
| 18 | Is it possible to tell us how your advertising revenue performed in the first half on your Westminster Press and F T and whether you 've experienced any improvements in sits vac advertising since the end of the first half ? |
| 19 | That 's what the Hereford fans must have thought , when they watched their side go one down to Northampton towards the end of the first half . |
| 20 | Aberdeen went ahead towards the end of the first half after Duncan Shearer chased a ball to the byeline that some would have given up for dead , and made the cross from which Mixu Paatelainen bundled the ball over the line . |
| 21 | It was a tense match with not much to choose between the two sides until Scotland scored the first try near the end of the first half . |
| 22 | Just gone , we 're obviously working to Italian time in this Italian job because we 've had really five minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half and I 'm a bit baffled as to why we had it . |
| 23 | Baffled by some of the refereeing decisions but that 's a minor thing compared to the fact that Notts were two goals ahead with just about minutes played and then went completely off the boil , they had Pisa on the run , they failed to capitalize on it and Pisa have finished the stronger of the two sides towards the end of the first half . |
| 24 | And Spurs piled then forward , towards the end of the first half , trying to get that all important third goal , but United , to their credit , held firm . |
| 25 | The very evident tendency of the end of the first part to overshadow the final Sacrificial Dance is one problem he convincingly solved , partly by restraining the former but mainly by injecting an extraordinary degree of ferocity into the fragmented rhythms of the latter . |
| 26 | The very evident tendency of the end of the first part to overshadow the final Sacrificial Dance is one problem he very firmly and convincingly solved , partly by restraining the former but mainly by injecting an extraordinary degree of ferocity into the fragmented rhythms of the latter . |
| 27 | Erm , we 're coming as it were to the end of the first part of the proceedings , er , but , I 'd like to give a brief thanks to the er , C R group , that 's the Charities Recruitment Group , for the part sponsorship of this A G M Conference . |
| 28 | Her moment came at the end of the first course when , without any apparent signal , the parlourmaid came back into the room . |
| 29 | At the end of the first day 5 Airborne Brigade has achieved its objectives . |
| 30 | The letter quoted above was begun at Didcot Station , then continued at his Cowley Road digs , and rounded off at the end of the first day of the Scholarship exam after six hours of hard writing . |