Example sentences of "[adj] of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 22-year-old Edgar was clear of the first three horses she rode in a World Championship final style event . |
| 2 | Orrell are top of the first division … but then again there are n't many easy matches to be had when you look at the other ties |
| 3 | The Merseyside club were top of the First Division , heading towards the FA Cup Final , and in the European Cup semi-final . |
| 4 | When I came here at first , the side were top of the First Division , but there was no apparent feeling for the game . |
| 5 | You know you have to do something but are unclear and afraid of the first step . |
| 6 | The ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motions gained even more significance when over 1,000 representatives to the Conservative party Conference signed a petition supportive of the first Parliamentary Motion . |
| 7 | The wide range of novels typical of the first third of the twentieth century is perhaps unexpected and almost all the best sellers are there . |
| 8 | Now denoting the nominal demand for money by MD , we can write in functional form : unc A simplified version of this function can be obtained by using real national income ( Y ) as an indicator of total wealth and by assuming that h is constant and that the function is homogeneous of the first degree in P. We can then write the real demand for money as : unc Monetarists generally believe the demand for money to be fairly unresponsive to interest rate changes ( and this is supported by empirical evidence ) . |
| 9 | We were married eventually on 29 December in St Cuthbert 's Church , Edinburgh , in the little chapel which was a memorial to the fallen of the First World War . |
| 10 | Humphrey Lyttelton recounts : ‘ We brought along with us a strong contingent from Camberwell Art School , and John Minton , now recognised as a distinguished painter , was among the most formidable and dangerous of the first school of dancers . ’ |
| 11 | This might then account for the apparently non-environmentally controlled distribution pattern in which other species could insinuate themselves in the holes of the forest ‘ lattice ’ devoid of the first species . |
| 12 | In the circumstances , it is therefore often difficult to be sure of the first arrival . |
| 13 | It is thus a matter for pride that some of the most eminent of the first anthropologists were really ‘ philanthropologists ’ , men of the moral calibre of Thomas F. Buxton ( 1786–1845 ) and Thomas Hodgkin ( 1798–1866 ) . |
| 14 | It will be seen that this falls somewhat short of the first resort approach , which the brief does not directly address . |
| 15 | Three days into our trek we were only a few hours short of the first Zanskari hamlet . |
| 16 | Metalinguistics investigates and reveals a hidden ( connotative ) level of meaning whose coherence is independent of the first ( denotative ) level . |
| 17 | I conclude that Ford 's ‘ critical act ’ was indeed ( by and large , always by and large ) the most important of the first half of this century , and that it is , moreover , irreversible . |
| 18 | The antecedent and consequent of the first sentence do not , in this context , function to express disapproval either of polygamists or of Solomon . |
| 19 | There is the objection , however , whatever else is to be said , that the third statement fails to follow from the first two only because of an ambiguity — and more precisely because the consequent of the first conditional is in fact not identical with the antecedent of the second . |
| 20 | This probe is immediately upstream of the first J α segment ( J α 1 ) and downstream of J α . |
| 21 | City are currently bottom of the First Division and Kendall spoke realistically about the task ahead . |
| 22 | City are currently bottom of the First Division and Kendall spoke realistically about the task ahead . |
| 23 | The day he walked into the manager 's office Norwich were bottom of the First Division and relegation was more a probability than possibility . |
| 24 | I have run ahead of chronology however and in particular of the First World War , which the peoples that had entered it as parts of the Empire ended as free-standing independent nations . |
| 25 | Usually we would be satisfied with the results of one or other of the first two techniques . |
| 26 | Nor could Hitler 's speech on ‘ Heroes ’ Memorial Day ’ — the nazified remembrance of the dead of the First World War — on 15 March do much to improve morale . |
| 27 | It was just around this stage that I became aware of the first footman beside me , who whispered : ‘ Miss Kenton would like a word with you , sir . |
| 28 | The first action using any new technique is usually one of the most interesting , for the simple principles can be seen without any complications of secondary purposes or complicated gear , and this is true of the first beach reconnaissance at Rhodes . |
| 29 | But it is true of the first use , also . |
| 30 | This was particularly true of the first essential step of holding a council . |