Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recollettas our Spanish investment paid off handsomely , profits more than doubled and Marker is er , the seven day a week sports paper , is now the er second biggest paper in Spain and has a higher readership than the first paper . |
| 2 | In other words once the first element has been selected every subsequent choice is determined by the element immediately preceding it . |
| 3 | The common clinical experience of diagnosing two ( or occasionally more ) affected boys simultaneously in a single family has to be weighed against the availability of prenatal diagnosis in future pregnancies once the first case has been identified . |
| 4 | When we had finished laughing we sat round the embers drinking tea until the first green light of dawn showed in the eastern sky . |
| 5 | ( v ) The prisoner is then informed of the date for the first review , and that this is three years less than the tariff if the first review is to be held less than 17 years before the date of his sentence . |
| 6 | Threadgill led Middlesbrough and Cleveland to team victory , following on from the junior boys team success , when the club provided the first four runners home , spearheaded by Alan Aitchison . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's near the colonnade — but I 'm afraid it wo n't be in action until the first of May — or possibly the last day in April , ’ he supplied . |
| 8 | Lois Forer , a judge and former assistant Pennsylvania attorney general , expects that the decision on the Barnes tour will encourage donors to include ‘ gift over ’ provisions in their bequests , allowing gifts to pass to a second institution if the first recipient of a donation violates the restrictions placed on gifts . |
| 9 | This provides a valuable feedback loop , in one sense , which forces the ‘ teacher ’ to seek more appropriate methods or goals if the first strategies are not successful . |
| 10 | The Ferrers family pedigree is woven into a silk pennant thirty feet long , a complicated lineage because the first Earl had twenty-seven legitimate children and a reputed thirty bastards . |
| 11 | It is the second criterion because the first step is to reject the alternatives . |
| 12 | This ability of DNA to cut and splice , to jump in and out of chromosomes at the drop of a hat , is one of the more exciting facts that have come to light since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 13 | Gates based his assessment on data which the CIA has collected on the Soviet nuclear power programme since the first Soviet reactor was commissioned in 1954 . |
| 14 | It is nearly a year since the meeting which led to the setting-up of the Network and six months since the first registration forms went out . |
| 15 | Historically local government in England and Wales is a fascinating subject and from its study it will be found that local government whilst not quite as we know it today , existed for centuries before the first parliament was ever convened . |
| 16 | Oppenheimer himself was refused security clearance in December 1953 , four months after the first Russian H-bomb was exploded . |
| 17 | 4 months after the first tenants moved in , the builders are already back in this council house on the infamous Innsworth Grove estate . |
| 18 | In October 1930 , ten months before the first National Government was formed , Sir Arthur Balfour , an industrialist and a member of the Economic Advisory Council , wrote to Ramsay MacDonald , saying that he had been forced to the conclusion : That our industrial and commercial economic situation is steadily deteriorating and if this continues , in a few months time , we shall be on the verge of a debacle . |
| 19 | They had been living at Riverstown for two months before the first invitation came . |
| 20 | It will be 21 months before the first women are ordained . |
| 21 | If one adds that delay to the average of about three months before the first visit is made , one is talking about a possible delay of one year and three months before the application starts to receive the attention that is required before it can proceed . |
| 22 | they 're usually made between six and eight months before the first person would move in |
| 23 | not generally towards the end of the sale period because you would be looking at er the brochure or the costs been put together eight months before the first flat was sold , erm a new brochure following a new estimate probably would have been prepared after about twenty months , that is to say er that would have been prepared before the last people entered the er flats |
| 24 | Newcastle Polytechnic 's plans to expand in the North-West are on the verge of a housing crisis months before the first students move into its £1m Carlisle campus . |
| 25 | So too , to a lesser extent , do the herbaceous plants of the bush ( 9000 species in Western Australia alone ) , which stood belly-high to a horse when the first Europeans arrived in the late eighteenth century . |
| 26 | If you do n't have at least two acres for the first horse and at least one per subsequent animal sharing the land , you have n't got enough for satisfactory winter keep and should be looking for an alternative . |
| 27 | The second defendant damaged the same part of the car as the first defendant . |
| 28 | Small wonder that there was high glee within the Command when the first sortie to Flensberg was such a debacle , due in the main to weather . |
| 29 | Security guard Stan Murray was at an office car park entrance when the first bomb went off . |
| 30 | Clouds were moving across the far north-west of the landscape as I got to the cave , and I 'd just reached the mouth when the first drops of rain spattered on the stones at my feet . |