Example sentences of "[adv] of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quadrupling the number of academics in 15 years inevitably led to some appointments of people ‘ not of the first rank ’ , as some politely express themselves . |
| 2 | But on the basis of evidence available now , it seems reasonable to conclude that class is not of the first importance in structuring our experiences of family life . |
| 3 | There is a curious facility possessed by some writers , often those not of the first rank , which consists of an ability to create characters who step out of the surroundings in which they occur and enter the popular imagination . |
| 4 | Horror stories abound , originally fuelled by the publication of Ruth Harrison 's Animal Machines ( 1964 ) , a book which in Britain directly influenced the setting up of the first parliamentary inquiry into the new methods of animal husbandry under the chairmanship of F.W.R. Brambell . |
| 5 | The trial of Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in 1876 for republishing one of Knowlton 's pamphlets gave the birth-control movement wide publicity and created the demand for more information , and led to the setting up of the first organisation to campaign on birth control , the Malthusian League . |
| 6 | It seems that the traumatic events surrounding the over-throw of the primal hordes and the setting up of the first fraternal hunting clans produced in our ancestors a central psychological conflict of such huge and all-engulfing proportions that all subsequent generations have to some extent or other felt its effects . |
| 7 | Moore 's England props , Paul Rendall and Jeff Probyn , belatedly return for Wasps , at home to Blackheath , after being left out of the first two First Division games . |
| 8 | On the other side of Ayrshire , Ally MacLeod discovered how painfully short his Ayr United side are of becoming genuine challengers for promotion out of the First Division . |
| 9 | • REM sleep can ‘ squeeze ’ deep sleep out of the first part of sleep towards the middle of it . |
| 10 | The second shape comes out of the first like the extension of an igloo . |
| 11 | The Glasgow Gangs grew out of the First World War , when those too young to fight or know any better began to hang around street corners . |
| 12 | We had fellows who had come straight out of the First World War , afraid of nothing . |
| 13 | Liverpool St Helens ' fall continues , a 9–6 defeat at Blackheath leaving them clamped to the bottom of Division Two just a year after they dropped out of the first division . |
| 14 | LUTON responded to tragedy with a battling performance to move out of the First Division 's bottom three . |
| 15 | And last time they were involved in a shoot-out , against Notts County in the Zenith Data last year , they missed three out of the first four . |
| 16 | Fleck was kept out of the first meeting between the two sides at Carrow Road — when Chelsea went down 2-1 . |
| 17 | The manager will play Ryan Giggs from the start after leaving him out of the first leg due to a mix-up over UEFA rules governing foreign and assimilated players . |
| 18 | Sealey has been kept out of the first team picture at Villa by Nigel Spink . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I 'm disgusted that I was allowed out of the first hospital in that state . ’ |
| 20 | Geoff Cooke left him out of the first international squad gathering on the grounds that Skinner had dropped down a division to play with Blackheath and therefore was obviously not too bothered about his international prospects . |
| 21 | Secondly , and perhaps inevitably arising out of the first situation , the young adult who joins the sub-culture of deafness and uses sign language has , in the community 's eyes , given up the search for sameness and therefore society 's help comes in a ‘ care for the disabled ’ package . |
| 22 | A HUNDRED in your first innings of the season is sweet , and especially so if it 's your team 's third one-day match , and you 've been left out of the first two because you are not regarded as a one-day player . |
| 23 | The judgment in the case , Re Letters Rogatory out of the First Civil Court of City of Mexico , is badly flawed but was followed almost without exception for half a century . |
| 24 | Now look at one of the letters you should have left out of the first question . |
| 25 | And then what would we do with so that 's the first pizza that 's dealt with and they got a piece like that out of the first one . |
| 26 | Now what 's the chance , that we 'll get a blue out of the first bag , and a blue out of the second bag ? |
| 27 | In the following example from the organ pedal melody of the Entrée in Messiaen 's Messe de la Pentecôte , only four pitches are used , yet the composer reshapes the rhythms and note-orders so skilfully that there is no feeling of repetitiousness or monotony : In Example 17 , from the slow movement of Bartók 's Fourth String Quartet , we have a wonderfully sweeping melody which seems to grow out of the first bar . |
| 28 | Lane sprang out of the first car at his approach . |
| 29 | It grew out of the first demonstrations , towards the end of October 1989 , and was composed of women and men who were outraged at the filth and the toxins in the air , water and soil . |
| 30 | Secondly , and arising out of the first function , it will produce a substantial statistical digest of basis data which is designed to serve the needs of future generations of Agrarian historians who investigate the period 1850-1914 . |