Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 2 | In simple terms the first questions a bank would ask were : has the business got a long term future ? |
| 3 | But it is clear that , for objective structural reasons , it was , during a certain long historical period , easier for the bourgeoisie to make meaningful use of the second , and the working classes the first , than vice versa . |
| 4 | Glenmuir , which has become synonymous with top quality golfwear , is offering exclusive to Golf Monthly readers the first prize of tickets for two to this unique spectacle , held this year from the 25th to the 29th of September . |
| 5 | In the case of skilled jobs , the initial approach was made by telephone , and for white-collar jobs the first approach was by letter . |
| 6 | Sent into to keep the peace between warring communities the first soldiers had no more legal powers than the ordinary citizen until the Special Powers Act gave them power to stop and question , search and arrest without a warrant . |
| 7 | In this he made the Black Panthers the first significant radical group to recognize gay liberation as a valid political movement , and did so in terms which provoked hostility from some in his own party : ‘ maybe I 'm injecting some of my prejudices by saying that ‘ even a homosexual can be revolutionary' ’ . |
| 8 | After French Museums proved unable to agree over the price at which the paintings should go to the Museum of Melun , however , France 's Monuments Historiques moved in and declared the two still lifes the first paintings , after van Gogh 's ‘ Jardin a Auvers ’ , to be historic monuments and thus unable to leave France . |
| 9 | It might be argued that the test procedure is thus shown to be at fault , since in all the above cases the first element can be shown to have a clear semantic function relative to the second element : in fact , it signals a sub-variety of the general category denoted by the second element . |
| 10 | I saw it twice , the second time to see what I 'd missed through racked sobs the first time . |
| 11 | For steady mean conditions the first term of eqn ( 19.20 ) is zero , but it indicates the physical significance of the equation ; in view of the summation convention and so each term in the equation represents some process tending to increase or decrease the kinetic energy of the turbulence . |
| 12 | On the other hand , when ο is small enough to satisfy and putting the integral becomes In spectral terms the first integral corresponds to a narrow line of infinite amplitude centred on zero frequency and it provides the mean level or direct component of the signal over all time , . |
| 13 | In other cases the first question will be to decide whether a contract was actually formed over the telephone . |
| 14 | By the entrance to Spring Place were two two-storey houses the first occupied by the Henstridge family , then followed a terrace of six , gaunt looking three-storey houses built from a singularly unattractive deep red brick . |
| 15 | Seventy three percent in the first trimester , in other words the first three months are male . |
| 16 | In time-lapse films the first signs are pulsations by the cells where the gut will form . |
| 17 | The Siemens family maintained both British and German connections , for William 's brother Werner remained in Berlin and built up a great electrical engineering business there , making among other things the first trams . |
| 18 | He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money ! |
| 19 | ( The computer does n't always reveal the whereabouts of traps , secret doors and invisible creatures the first time of asking , unless Samson has high intelligence or is experienced . ) |
| 20 | One very small point of procedure is worth noting : at a first glance at this example there appears to be a redundancy of the indication pp , but on closer examination it is seen that it has never been used unnecessarily , for where it appears on the same line of the score in two successive bars the first of the pair of instruments whose parts are written on that line enters alone , and the second joins him in the next bar . |
| 21 | Most children reject new foods the first time they are offered , but if your child clearly finds the food disagreeable , even after trying it three or four times , then do n't serve it up again . |
| 22 | This is the week that Sun Microsystems Inc debuts the first of its much-heralded , if tardy , Viking boxes . |
| 23 | The place looked heart-wrenchingly familiar , yet in several respects changed too , for as they pulled up below the main steps the first things she noticed were the banks of geraniums and polyanthus cascading over the balconies and frothing down either side of the entrance . |