Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be a year from signing the deal that the first single is released . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's only rissoles , I 'm afraid , ’ said Alec , but if I felt a pang of disappointment that the first meal at his house was n't going to be out of the ordinary I was mistaken . |
| 3 | When Walter Luff took over the Transport Department , he realised the potential for development of the Fleetwood route , and it was with this in mind that the first twenty-five railcoaches were purchased . |
| 4 | It was after they had cleared supper and were sitting by the range with a cup of tea that the first person to arrive knocked at the front door . |
| 5 | It said in the E , the Echo I read in the Echo it 's er , Friday 's Echo that the first band comes on at four |
| 6 | On this occasion the publicity or discussion in the town had had the beneficial effect that the first victim recognised the matter was being taken seriously and so reported the earlier incident . |
| 7 | Qualitatively the answer is illustrated in Figure 2 where the observed spectral shift is plotted against the time measured from the instant that the first signal from B reached A . |
| 8 | There is just enough flexibility to arrange that at P and in addition that the first derivatives of the metric components vanish . |
| 9 | If no such solution can be found , we impose the constraint that the first objective function should not drop below its optimal value before turning to the second objective . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't practise scoring direct from corner-kicks and it was just luck that the first one went in . |
| 11 | IT WAS surely no coincidence that the first record played after the Inspiral Carpets left the Palace stage was The Stranglers ‘ Golden Brown ’ . |
| 12 | It was no coincidence that the first official title of the Free French movement 's executive — a title which de Gaulle had suggested to Churchill as early as July 1940 — was the Conseil de Défense de l'Empire . |
| 13 | It may well be in this mis-match of experience that the first seeds of misunderstanding and destructive tension are sown , particularly as the education officer is often perceived as ‘ the authority ’ , in several senses of the word , while the head has a greater knowledge of the processes of education required in school to meet the needs of the children . |
| 14 | When a new and relevantly similar action occurs , one must either call it good or take back one 's judgement that the first one was good . |
| 15 | As one mouthful of food is being chewed , the other is on the fork and on its way up — ready to be put in the mouth the second that the first mouthful starts on its way down the throat . |
| 16 | Dame Jocelyn Barrow told MPs on the National Heritage Select Committee that the first part of the series , shown last Sunday , was screened after the 9pm watershed . |
| 17 | Again , all the dishes contained the same scented food , but the bees mainly went to the dish that the first bee had been to . |
| 18 | So far removed was it , both in time and in temper , from the realities of a large city parish and the growing bewilderment and tribulation that the first two decades of the new century had visited upon its inhabitants that his birthplace and its memories became as insubstantial as the tales of Cuchullain and the Red Branch Knights that he had read about in school . |
| 19 | Yet even scientific curiosity in such places is minute in this country , and I fear that our national outlook is still tainted by that Anglo-Saxon authoritarianism that the first English settlers took with them to the New World . |
| 20 | He seemed resigned to this twist of fate that the first calf to be born into his stable for two years had been brought to life before it was ready , before the winter was even through . |
| 21 | ( a ) The requirement that the belief that p should track the truth of p is a requirement that the first two clauses of the theory should be related in a certain way . |
| 22 | Most observations support the generalization that the first type of transition occurs in shear flows adjacent to a wall or walls ( boundary layers , pipe flow , etc. ) and the second type in shear flows away from any wall ( ‘ free flows ' such as jets , wakes , etc . ) . |
| 23 | It 's always been my philosophy that the first bait out is the one most likely to produce a run and I will try to get a drifting float out in almost any conditions ( except flat calms ) using balloons to assist the float 's passage through calm water and into the wind lanes . |
| 24 | CGT for an individual is calculated on the basis that the first £6300 net gains are exempt , and gains over £6300 attract a tax rate of 30 per cent . |
| 25 | Paul Fussell has developed the interesting point that the first world war was a peculiarly literary war . |
| 26 | It is from this period that the first two political bonds of the mid sixteenth century come . |
| 27 | It was in this period that the first organised adult meetings began to be held , first in Glasgow then in Edinburgh , London , Manchester and Leeds . |
| 28 | He expressed the opinion that the first defendant would be in breach of its duty to the plaintiffs ‘ if it were to agree to pay remuneration to the receiver which was plainly excessive . ’ |
| 29 | So it 's an ongoing process that the first medical pra or some medical practice booklets are just coming up for their second resale . |
| 30 | It is worth pointing out to the group that the first session is always the most anxiety-provoking , after which future sessions become progressively easier . |