Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Vancouver convention ( originated by Index Medicus and the National Library of Medicine ) , which states that articles contributed by more than six authors are cited in reference lists as the first six authors et al , offers an indirect method of assessing the stringency of criteria for selecting authors . |
| 2 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 3 | Higher wage claims led to unit labour costs in manufacturing increasing for the first time since 1987 , while consumer price inflation increased from an annual rate of 2.1 per cent in 1989 to one of 2.5 per cent in 1990 . |
| 4 | A process known as ‘ cycling ’ — where each number is in turn brought into the first position in the combined number can be employed in order to generate headings for added entries . |
| 5 | I looked down in misery tinged with the first real touch of hatred I had ever felt . |
| 6 | The medieval fabliaux in English belong in the first instance to the context of medieval England , and are not to be seen as foreign intruders disguised in the clothing of the Middle English language . |
| 7 | Gunmen opened fire , killing 14 occupants of the bus , including a Dane , Rasmussen Testerto , described in press reports as the first Western tourist to fall victim to the fighting in Sri Lanka ; a Japanese tourist had been shot dead in 1985 . |
| 8 | In order to deal with the first question , we need to begin with considering in what circumstances a modus of any kind , public or private , might be enforced . |
| 9 | It was known that , if Sunderland lost their game , then Bristol and Coventry needed only to draw against each other in order to stay in the First Division . |
| 10 | But there is no late date set into the legislation , only that ratification when it is required means that from the first of the following month then the elections on the new constituency boundaries may take place under the new er European rules so that a decision is of course for an election in June er is in fact needed by the first of May . |
| 11 | It is clear from the context of such pairs that in every case where the second speaker responds to a proposition of the first speaker with " you know what I mean ! " or " you know ! " , the second speaker is in fact agreeing with the first . |
| 12 | In every case a noticeable increase in measurement occurred between the first and second measurement of each pot . |