Example sentences of "and the [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be a play-off between the Premier Division 's second-bottom club and the second-top in the First Division . |
| 2 | One such , the manor house , has the date of erection and the name of the first owner on the tablet over the front door , inscribed ‘ Elinor Ellis 1743 ’ . |
| 3 | Such themes include expectations of life , employment and the problems of the first job , first love , relations with parents , divorced parents , step-parents , feelings of inadequacy , school and relationships with peers and teachers , and illness and grief . |
| 4 | My behaviour was surely prompted by flaws in my character — flaws that had allowed me to be connected so incestuously with Ladhar Bheinn , Riggindale and the rest in the first place . |
| 5 | The local 2-fold axis ( represented by the diamond ) passes through one repressor dimer and the centre of the first met box . |
| 6 | Leaving the ground floor , the marble staircase rises to the two main bedroom suites and the saloon on the first floor . |
| 7 | At the end of this wall leading off to the left was another passage to the downstairs lobby and the stairway to the first floor . |
| 8 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |
| 9 | This introductory expression is made phonologically prominent and the whole of the first clause or sentence in a paratone may be uttered with raised pitch . |
| 10 | Significant developments at the undergraduate level , were the reintroduction of an Honours programme in Political Studies , with a particular emphasis on Europe and the graduation of the first students with degrees in Japanese . |
| 11 | These were the growth of organised and comprehensive diplomatic archives and the publication of the first great printed collections of international treaties . |
| 12 | The Boer War brought the first murmurs of coalitionism , a sense of national crisis brought the first attempt to form a coalition , and the advent of the First World War made it a practical possibility . |
| 13 | That eventful first full year of 1908 finished with the second Annual General Meeting in October and the presentation of the First Annual Report and Financial Statement — copies of both have luckily survived , as has the bondholders ' account which deals with the course and clubhouse construction . |
| 14 | The other half , and the reversion in the first half , are held on the ‘ statutory trusts ’ for the issue . |
| 15 | The interval between initial pairing and the laying of the first egg is about nine days . |
| 16 | Figure 14 Time between thesis date and the date of the first related paper . |
| 17 | During the period between the close of nominations and the date of the first ballot , it shall be the responsibility of the constituency associations , represented by Conservative Members of Parliament , to inform the Member of their views regarding the candidates . |
| 18 | 11 June saw the reopening of a station closed thirty-five years previously and the opening of the first new inner-London station for very many years : Hackney Central and Hackney Wick on the ‘ Cross Town Link Line ’ between North Woolwich and Camden Road , a promise of greater things to come . |
| 19 | The vast shipyards that stretched back from either bank of the Clyde led to deep cargo-handling docks , graving docks and the opening of the first , the Queen ‘ s , by Lord Provost James Bain on 18 September 1877 . |
| 20 | The overflow entry links the highest key on the logical track , which comprises both the prime ( physical ) and overflow parts of it , and the address of the first record in the chain of overflow records for that track . |
| 21 | Shannon , with their vaunted pack , were the favourites and the leaders in the first division of the All Ireland League . |
| 22 | They had displayed a radical , organised resistance to both industrial capital and the state in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | ‘ unless … ( a ) the court has deprived the first defendant ( as mortgagee ) of any relevant costs ; or ( b ) the court has ordered taxation of any relevant costs on some other basis save where there is no inconsistency between such an order and the preservation of the first defendant 's contractual right to payment of such costs ( for example , where such an order has been , or is hereafter , made against the mortgagors or any of them and other persons joined as co-plaintiffs or co-defendants with the mortgagors or any of them ) . |
| 24 | However , it should also be noted that the interval between marriage and the birth of the first child has lengthened since the early seventies . |
| 25 | For example , the interval between marriage and the birth of the first child for professional and managerial families is twice as long as that for the families of unskilled workers . |
| 26 | Recent research has disrupted the conventional narrative which represented the period between the end of the Second World War and the passing of the first Immigration Act in 1962 as an era of laissez-faire , with restrictions on black immigration supposedly only being reluctantly considered and implemented in the wake of campaigning by small right wing elements in parliament and a groundswell of racism in the constituencies , especially in the Midlands . |
| 27 | About 1840 , aided by his wife 's wealth and the patronage of the first Viscount Portman [ q.v. ] , a prominent member of the Royal Agricultural Society , he rented two farms in the parish to pursue experimental scientific farming with the object of relieving the misery of farmer and labourer alike in the face of the impending repeal of the Corn Laws . |
| 28 | But they will also seek new approaches as they record events and the reporting of the first post-Thatcher election . |
| 29 | And the period after the First World War was a watershed in the battle against oppressive hours of working . |
| 30 | The first three shows last September really were filmed live , and the temperature in the first club reached 152°F scrambling the digital equipments programming , so that Matt Bianco found themselves miming to a completely different tune . |