Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if this is so we get the delightful result that instead of there being at least two radically different sorts of things in the world , sensory states and material objects , there is only one sort of thing , sensory states , and all putatively other sorts of thing are reducible to complexes of actual and possible things of the first sort . |
| 2 | There were ecstatic and emotional scenes at the first of NME 's ‘ Viva Eight ’ gigs in conjunction with the Spastics Society at London 's Town & Country Club on Tuesday night , when headliner Nick Cave assembled the surviving members of his legendary former line-up for a short set that comprised the classics ‘ Dead Joe ’ , ‘ Wild World ’ and ‘ Nick The Stripper ’ . |
| 3 | While happy enough to accept the Czechs ' omission of repeats in these earlier works , surely they were unwise to omit that of the exceptionally concise and concentrated exposition of the first movement of the Ghost , Op. 70 No. 1 . |
| 4 | Particular attention is being paid to the major Indian rebellions which occurred there in the late colonial period ( 1780 and 1814 ) , to the role of southern Peru in the overthrow of Spanish rule ( in 1824 ) , and to political , social , and economic developments in the first three decades after independence . |
| 5 | The rise of the international business schools over the last decades and the substantial increase in the numbers of Third World students in the universities and technical institutes of the First World have provided an ever-increasing pool of potential local employees for the TNCs , and recruitment is brisk . |
| 6 | Most of us experience ‘ Monday morning blues ’ — the feeling of tiredness and low spirits on the first day back at work after the weekend of rest . |
| 7 | Possibly the most trouble-free and profitable course in the first year is to grass-let part of the farm , on your own terms , thereby keeping the farm in work whilst leaving you free to get on with your development plans . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , this finding has led to further speculation about the role of hostile , critical and overprotective parenting in the first onset of schizophrenia . |
| 9 | Compare this with the Hallidayan approach , where In China would be considered rheme in the second and marked theme in the first example . |
| 10 | A third building included a single-storey office which incorporated a design studio and dark room for the first time and enabled Laura to organize her print and pattern research . |
| 11 | In the postwar period , many social thinkers , reckoning the terrible cost in death and suffering of the wars and civil wars of the first half of the twentieth century , have turned their attention increasingly toward the possibilities and modes of peaceful change . |
| 12 | Now the other young man never believed any of his professed and contradictory reasons in the first place . |
| 13 | This section sets out the procedures and standard letters for the first stage of the marketing process . |
| 14 | ‘ A brooding cloud of evil , ’ the commentator had written , ‘ hovers over this dark and magnificent saga from the first page to the astonishing denouement . ’ |
| 15 | This school had enjoyed a brief period of success and national distinction in the first decade of the sixteenth century under the Mastership of John Stanbridge , who was well known when he migrated north from Oxford and whose Grammar was prescribed in the statutes of Manchester Grammar School . |
| 16 | The manufacture of chemicals such as lactic acid and citric acid during the first world war were probably the first examples to be labelled with the term ‘ biotechnology ’ . |
| 17 | And so , on the evening of 31 December 1962 , Jacob , Katherine and Leo waited in a living room decked in flowers and soft lights for the first guests to arrive . |
| 18 | The direct and humane tone of the first paragraph is sustained throughout . |
| 19 | The account describes the ‘ hospitals and open stables for the reception of diseased and sick horses in the first stage of their complaints ’ … ‘ more pure stables , which are taken up by horses in physic , or patients whose complaints are not contagious ’ … stocks where ‘ all operations are performed without the trouble or hazard of casting … a perfect skeleton of a horse , to refer to in cases of lameness , fractures , etc … various paddocks , some with and some without water for the better accommodation of horses of different descriptions , whose complaints require open air , or grass , for their perfect recovery ’ . |
| 20 | They queued patiently for lifts and ascended through a " Titanic cobweb " to find a choice of Parisian , Alsatian , Russian and Anglo-American restaurants on the first level and a bird's-eye view of the Seine sparkling beneath . |
| 21 | They assessed both communication deviance and affective style at the first interview with families , that is , aspects such as disruptive speech , closure problems , unclear communication of ideas , and statements that were supportive , critical , guilt-inducing or intrusive . |
| 22 | But eugenics only gained theoretical legitimacy and an institutional base in the political and international conjuncture before the First War . |
| 23 | The fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) , led by Abbasi Madani , won control of a majority of municipal and provincial assemblies in the first multiparty poll since independence , held on June 12 . |
| 24 | In the meanwhile , the cautious and complex decrees of the first liberalising steps decided last year were ratified by the Prime Minister last month . |
| 25 | We will provide £55 million towards the preparation of the site and key facilities in the first stage of the bid , and we will ensure that the project , whether successful or not , contributes to the effective regeneration of East Manchester . |
| 26 | Two further rounds of voting in the multiparty elections to the National Assembly took place on Oct. 21 and 28 following the suspension and partial annulment of the first round on Sept. 21 [ p. 37701 ] , which had been characterized by disorder and irregularities . |
| 27 | Watchfulness and guidance by the ‘ magisterium ’ are mentioned several times , but the condescending and protective tone of the first draft has happily gone . |
| 28 | The ECE report indicated virtual stagnation in the total volume of exports from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe in the first half of 1989 owing to absolute declines in intra-COMECON trade and COMECON trade with developing countries . |
| 29 | At endoscopy , an average of two biopsy specimens were taken from the anterior and posterior walls of the first part of the duodenum , and immediately fixed in a solution of 10% formalin/ saline . |
| 30 | Both the Prime Minister and the caterer , Clare Latimer , have won a public apology and undisclosed damages in the first round of their libel battle . |