Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate of progress made in the first 20 years was only achieved by the geologists being in the field most of the year . |
| 2 | Within manufacture , the precise form of division depends in the first instance on the historical precursors of the capitalistic form of production in the given branch of industry — whether the ‘ manufacturer ’ ( a ) draws together previously separate trades into one workshop to produce a common product or ( b ) splits up a previously unified craft production process into its component tasks . |
| 3 | The total number of pieces of gum used in the first day should be gradually reduced over a subsequent period of ten days . |
| 4 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 5 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 6 | An Act of Parliament passed in the first year of his reign recited that great numbers of persons : |
| 7 | In order to protect the public from the charlatan or the quack , entry into the profession must be guarded , its standards polic-ed , and its rules of practice defined in the first instance by the profession itself … |
| 8 | Catholicism is presented as a potential remedy , but the philosophy of indeterminacy appears for the first time in this novel as a rival discourse . |
| 9 | Three of those eight variables ( excluding Pugh score ) independently influenced patient survival in the logistic regression analysis : encephalopathy , Prothrombin time and units of blood transfused within the first 72 hours ( current model ) . |
| 10 | Matthew 's theory drew upon a long tradition of applying evolutionism to the problems of biogeography begun by the first Darwinians . |
| 11 | ‘ I know it 's going to be a hard year and we 've still got a lot of work to do before the first European GP . |
| 12 | It has seen the consolidation of work commenced in the first year ; the forging ahead of ‘ key ’ enterprise activities university wide and the ‘ piloting ’ of a number of innovative projects . |
| 13 | ‘ One grain of corn placed on the first square on the board . |
| 14 | If the Bank refuses to accept these offers then the amount of assistance provided in the first round could be a long way short of the overall amount of assistance needed during the day . |
| 15 | I would also like to know how to get the Van Halen and Brian May sounds , and also the type of sound used on the first Extreme album , during the songs Watching , Waiting and Mutha as the distortion on both sounds smoother and less buzzy . |
| 16 | It is likely that there were windows of appearance located on the first floors of the Minoan temples , overlooking both West and Central Courts . |
| 17 | Specific activity was calculated from the slope of the linear incorporation of radioactivity observed during the first 25 min of the reaction . |
| 18 | When we set about trying to understand difficult discourse we often start with the kind of knowledge elicited by the first six questions . |
| 19 | The emphasis in Developments on boards being required to work within committee policies , and the changes of procedure envisaged in the first four items of the new model , did not mean automatic changes in the ‘ inspectoral ’ functions of the boards . |
| 20 | A stream of urine splashed into the first glass , and as it filled Estelle guided the stream to the next glass as if she were holding a hose pipe . |
| 21 | Demonstrations resumed in University Square on the evening of Aug. 22 when protesters staged a six-hour occupation , chanting anti-government slogans and complaints about food shortages ( especially the reintroduction earlier that day of sugar rationing for the first time since the December 1989 revolution ) . |
| 22 | On the other hand , this heterogeneity between risk groups might reflect the existence of constitutionally distinct subgroups within a population that has different forms of susceptibility to adenoma development : one with generalised and noticeable proliferative anomalies throughout the entire colonic epithelium that produce an increase tendency toward recidivism , and a second , less recidivant subgroup in whom polyp development is not preceded by the generalised pattern of hyperproliferation seen in the first group but by other types of alterations as yet unidentified . |
| 23 | Turning a quarter circle away from the mosque towards the setting sun , through the early evening heat haze I could see the distant silhouette of the Qutab Minar , the tower of victory built by the first Sultan immediately after he had driven the Hindus from Delhi in 1192 . |
| 24 | His second example involved a transhipment bill of lading issued by the first carrier and damage or loss occurring on the second carrier 's vessel . |
| 25 | The sale was notable both in content and in consignors : more pieces from the collection of Mrs Barbara Johnson ; a number of lots from the Luton Hoo Wernher family collection ; from John Kluge ; and sixty lots from the Meikleour Estate Trust which comprises the celebrated collection of furniture assembled in the first half of the nineteenth century by the comte de Flahaut de la Billarderie , natural son of Talleyrand , and his wife , Margaret , Baroness Keith and Nairne . |
| 26 | There were an awful lot of teething troubles in the first year or so , but it is working very well . |
| 27 | The advantages of form disappeared in the first quarter of the fourth century , when Constantine abolished the formal requirements of the civil law . |
| 28 | And it was n't exactly the kind of thing endorsed by the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 29 | Success was rapid with 2,196 organized weeks of holiday taken in the first year of operation . |
| 30 | This is one US citizen who believes very firmly in the uninhibited freedom of expression guaranteed in the First Amendment , while not considering Ice-T a ‘ living martyr ’ . |