Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 The amendment came in response to criticisms by six of the seven recently created opposition parties that the first version was weighted in favour of the Social Democratic Republican Party ( PRDS ) , formed under the sponsorship of President Moaouia Ould Sidi Taya ) .
2 In other words once the first element has been selected every subsequent choice is determined by the element immediately preceding it .
3 The common clinical experience of diagnosing two ( or occasionally more ) affected boys simultaneously in a single family has to be weighed against the availability of prenatal diagnosis in future pregnancies once the first case has been identified .
4 Jerusalem had been in Arab hands since the seventh century and the Holy Sepulchre was empty , but such was the emotional fervour stirred up by Urban 's preachers that the First Crusade was launched and a new kind of ‘ holy war ’ was under way .
5 Give special attention to the first and last paragraphs and the first an last sentences of your answer .
6 Now the pillars of flesh between them were stiffened with bony rods and the first pair of these bones , slowly over the millennia , gradually hinged forward .
7 This is illustrated in Fig. 6 , showing typical mapping from the start of the four bit plane base addresses and the first line of pixels on the screen .
8 It had been a hard year , the public felt Lauda had been ill done by , and everyone felt that they were seeing the apotheosis of one of the great drivers and the first signs of greatness in his natural successor , Alain Prost .
9 We 're all pulling for each other because we 've all grown up together — from the youth team to the reserves and the first team .
10 In 1973 the City of London Polytechnic obtained CNAA approval for its modular degree , beginning with fifteen subjects and a first year in which students reappraised their objectives and had guidance and counselling available .
11 This provides a valuable feedback loop , in one sense , which forces the ‘ teacher ’ to seek more appropriate methods or goals if the first strategies are not successful .
12 When I told my friends Bill Page and Bill Adams , both of whom were bus inspectors and the first of whom had been at Whitgift with me , they were astounded .
13 It contains a methylation-free island , spanning the 5' flanking sequences and the first exon and a number of neuronal-specific DNase I hypersensitive sites have been identified in the upstream region as well as within the body of the gene .
14 So , gratitude it has to be for the glimpse of a hornbeam 's golden rain of catkin pollen in a sheltered copse where , among primroses and the first bluebells , sorrel shows its delicate pink flowers and ( useful in salads ) triple leaflets , which Saint Patrick used to demonstrate the nature of the Trinity .
15 Through the middle kitchen window he could just make out the open gate , the wooden ramp covering the steps and the first huge saddle-back sow ambling down into the yard .
16 Amongst the named were the ex-Minister for Women 's Affairs , a provincial political activist , some prominent labour leaders , leading members of the media , policewomen and the first firewoman in the province .
17 A multiple.length value is held in a number of consecutive store locations ; the left-most bit of all words but the first ( which holds the sign bit ) may either be used arithmetically or may be ignored .
18 It is nearly a year since the meeting which led to the setting-up of the Network and six months since the first registration forms went out .
19 Historically local government in England and Wales is a fascinating subject and from its study it will be found that local government whilst not quite as we know it today , existed for centuries before the first parliament was ever convened .
20 Oppenheimer himself was refused security clearance in December 1953 , four months after the first Russian H-bomb was exploded .
21 4 months after the first tenants moved in , the builders are already back in this council house on the infamous Innsworth Grove estate .
22 In October 1930 , ten months before the first National Government was formed , Sir Arthur Balfour , an industrialist and a member of the Economic Advisory Council , wrote to Ramsay MacDonald , saying that he had been forced to the conclusion : That our industrial and commercial economic situation is steadily deteriorating and if this continues , in a few months time , we shall be on the verge of a debacle .
23 They had been living at Riverstown for two months before the first invitation came .
24 It will be 21 months before the first women are ordained .
25 If one adds that delay to the average of about three months before the first visit is made , one is talking about a possible delay of one year and three months before the application starts to receive the attention that is required before it can proceed .
26 they 're usually made between six and eight months before the first person would move in
27 not generally towards the end of the sale period because you would be looking at er the brochure or the costs been put together eight months before the first flat was sold , erm a new brochure following a new estimate probably would have been prepared after about twenty months , that is to say er that would have been prepared before the last people entered the er flats
28 Newcastle Polytechnic 's plans to expand in the North-West are on the verge of a housing crisis months before the first students move into its £1m Carlisle campus .
29 If you do n't have at least two acres for the first horse and at least one per subsequent animal sharing the land , you have n't got enough for satisfactory winter keep and should be looking for an alternative .
30 It was for these reasons that the first ‘ valves ’ for radios and televisions and computers were evacuated glass vessels , descendants of Crookes ' radiometer and cathode ray tube , rather than semiconductors .
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