Example sentences of "[noun sg] by the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attempt by the first headmaster to run Whittingham as a Jewish Eton was not appreciated by the children . |
| 2 | But he only said , ‘ It was raised from the rock by the first High Kings , and it is filled with rather strange enchantments . |
| 3 | Marxists criticize neo-Marxists for concentrating too much on questions of international exchange and terms of trade ( exploitation by the First World of the Third World ) and too little on questions of productiou and ownership ( capital accumulation and class struggle ) . |
| 4 | Further the third to fifth defendants were also knowingly concerned in investment transactions entered into by the first defendant with members of the U.K. investing public in the course of and/or as a result of the aforesaid contraventions of the Act by the first defendant in which the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned in the respects set out in paragraph 29 herein . |
| 5 | To this end , some computers provide " reverse " or " inverted " subtract and divide , which ( respectively ) subtract the first from the second operand and divide the second by the first operand . |
| 6 | An old shepherd Harry Mason confirmed [ the ] shedding of the corn by the first combines : ‘ I used to turn my sheep out on to the corn stubble . |
| 7 | Pearce v Foster indicated why it was that if the original affidavit or a copy made by the employee had been sent to the solicitors , that would not have been privileged from disclosure by the first and second defendants , although sent to the solicitors for the purpose of advising them on their position against the employee . |
| 8 | Despite qualifying sixth , the Reynard driver made a superb start and was in second place by the first corner , taking the lead from Gianni Morbidelli 's Lola by the end of the lap . |
| 9 | It was Buddy Melges , however , who steered in front at the first cross after the start , having been lifted into a handsome lead by the first shift , and stayed there . |
| 10 | His son and heir by the first marriage , Richard , married Agnes , daughter of Thomas , first Baron Wharton , and was MP for Cumberland in 1547 and 1553 . |
| 11 | The foreword by the first President of the SSATs to The Guide to Procedure stresses the enabling functions of the tribunals : |
| 12 | It was a town created on the marshland by the first Bishop of Norwich ( Herbert Losinga , 1091–1119 ) , to whom the site belonged and who saw its wonderful possibilities . |
| 13 | The Rover 200 will be joined in the showrooms next month by the first new Land Rover model for 20 years , the Discovery , aimed at the sector of the four-wheel drive market dominated by Japanese manufacturers . |
| 14 | However , Manchester United 's backlog of League fixtures means that unless they play their First Division game with West Ham that night they could not finish the season by the first weekend in May . |
| 15 | This is when there is the greatest risk of the glider being lifted off the ground by the first strong gust . |
| 16 | Jitters and Curtius Kenne had been knocked flat by the first blast . |
| 17 | He dictated to her many of the hymns that are still in use by the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist — many of whose tunes are exactly the same — bar one or two notes — as the ones the real John Wesley cobbled together in the eighteenth century . |
| 18 | Only in the United States and in Britain was there no element of state control by the First World War . |
| 19 | Figure 5 shows that the cleavage pattern has returned to that in the control by the first time point ( 20 seconds ) and confirms that this antibiotic dissociates from DNA much more rapidly than actinomycin . |
| 20 | The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland . |
| 21 | DESPITE the sparkling performance by the first two of America 's four planned space shuttles , the fleet 's goal of 30 flights a year by 1990 is ‘ impossible or highly improbable , ’ according to a study by leading aerospace experts . |
| 22 | Kristensen 's equaliser failed to disguise an unimpressive performance by the First Division leaders , and Keegan admitted : ‘ I do n't have to tell them how badly they played . |
| 23 | To be included in this brochure , completed forms must be returned to the above address by the first week in December . |
| 24 | It connotes the discovery of the world by the first and most direct way open to us , and the discovery of ourselves in our native environment . |
| 25 | He was waiting for them with his barge by the first footbridge over the canal as they came down from the moor . |
| 26 | ‘ An order under section 61(1) that the third , fourth and fifth defendants and each of them pay such sum as the court thinks fit to the plaintiffs or alternatively into court or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 30 or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 31 in such manner as the court may direct or alternatively that they take such other steps as the court may direct for the purpose of remedying the contravention by the first defendant of sections 47 and 57 . |
| 27 | The private level , while inevitably painful , had been given meaning and dignity by the first experience of community support . |
| 28 | 1993 examination entries are now in and candidates will receive their Confirmation of Entry Form by the first week in April . |
| 29 | There were also significant differences between the two groups in the technique and results of abdominal palpation by the first hospital doctor to assess the patient , usually the medical resident or registrar . |
| 30 | The first victory for an American-bred horse was in 1908 when Rubio triumphed , followed the next year by the first French success with Lutteur III . |