Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a liberal democracy this needs to be scrutinized constantly , and herein lies the first problem for the researcher . |
| 2 | Yeah , that 's true up to a point , but you 've got ta remember though that that only affects the first half , or first bit of season . |
| 3 | Note that LIFESPAN only checks the first three items ( Issue identifier , Product identifier/title , Client identifier/title ) and inserts missing titles or identifiers once you have entered information for all three items . |
| 4 | The story of how ministers did so provides the first substantial evidence about how John Major 's government is functioning behind closed doors . |
| 5 | It 's you that normally wins the first hand and me for the rest . |
| 6 | While the book charted his passage through Chicago , New York and finally Los Angeles , it largely skips the first two circles of hell . |
| 7 | SGS-Thomson Microelectronics BV will get its second capital injection of $500m from its backers by the end of June , its French state shareholder CEA-Industrie says : it already has the first payment of $250m each from France and Italy . |
| 8 | It normally takes the first ten minutes of any brisk walk to get into a rhythm and feel aerobic , so increasing the time from 20 to 30 minutes is effectively doubling the aerobic benefits . |
| 9 | The activity of this membrane enzyme thus provides the first control step in the prostaglandin pathway by limiting the availability of arachidonic acid substrate ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 10 | When it comes to considering legislation , as in managing his Department , the Minister soon faces the first test of the statesman : the reconciliation of political ideology and opinion to the demands of sharply practical situations . |
| 11 | As Blackstone put it : ‘ the law can not draw the line between different degrees of violence , and therefore totally prohibits the first and lowest stage of it ; every man 's person being sacred , and no other having a right to meddle with it , in any the slightest manner . ’ |
| 12 | Tom Berman , now in Israel , still has the first letter his mother wrote from Czechoslovakia to the Millers in Glasgow on 14 June 1939 . |
| 13 | He still remembers the first record he bought — Frank Philips narrating Peter and the Wolf on Ace of Clubs with Britten 's Young Person 's Guide ( LPO/Concertgebouw/van Beinum ) . |
| 14 | This still leaves the first topic , namely why in practice government does interfere , and the question of motivations embodied in one central group of actors not so far highlighted , the regulators themselves . |
| 15 | The exhibition also represents the first showing of works by Olga Rozanova and reveals her as a very substantial painter who clearly made a crucial contribution to the Russian Avant-garde : the paintings are stunning , both in scale and conception , and the unusual colour contrasts are highly original . |
| 16 | There is one tablet from Knossos which lists several deities including Potnia and Enualios , a name which later was used as an alternative to Ares , the Greek war-god ; it also has the first part of Poseidon 's name , ‘ po-se-da- ’ , but the end is broken off . |
| 17 | OBJECTIVITY ALSO HAS THE FIRST OBJECT DATABASE FOR WINDOWS NT |
| 18 | Not only does Italy-Brazil represent many people 's ideal coupling for next summer 's World Cup final in Rome but this afternoon 's game also marks the first occasion the two countries have met since that afternoon seven years ago in Spain when the Italians dismissed Falcao , Zico , Junior et al , 3-2 on their way to winning the 1982 World Cup . |
| 19 | The second help screen partly overlays the first and shows a proposed convention for colour abbreviations which can be used for describing the lure type . |
| 20 | The starting pulse also triggers the first delay circuit , which delays the pulse for a time , during which the motor moves to the first phase switching position . |
| 21 | When the number of steps to be executed is equal to the number of deceleration delay circuits the downcounter produces a pulse , which switches off the clock and also triggers the first deceleration delay , T1' . |
| 22 | The transliteration of the original with qwt , in line 3 , reasonably accurately represents the first letter ( which might also be represented as a figure nine if nine has a straight back stroke ) . |
| 23 | As the Dip.HE mainly forms the first two years of BEd . |
| 24 | But whether all this back-to-the-future stuff is the final , futile , heroic twitch in the corpse of pop music bludgeoned near to death by metal and techno , or whether this instinctive return to flamboyance and sexual ambiguity really signals the first stirrings of a full-scale revolution , the fact is that 1992 desperately yearns to be 20 years younger and ‘ Back In Denim ’ is New Glam 's most articulate manifesto so far . |
| 25 | Now comes the first LP — picked up by Guernica in the face of widespread interest — which confirms the potential ‘ Palomine ’ , with nine original tracks , and one Sebadoh cover , is a warm , uplifting and engrossing record . |
| 26 | Now comes the first of two highly dramatic transformations . |
| 27 | Tomorrow sees the first round of the President 's Trophy takes place at Northern . |
| 28 | Today sees the first appearance of the American team , comprising John McEnroe and Pam Shriver , who face Australia . |
| 29 | The Department of Transport today stages the first of three exhibitions on the route for the new £38m dual carriageway due to be built between Malton and Seamer . |
| 30 | ParaSet also reportedly provides the first ‘ what if ’ capability for engineers to assess the impact of potential changes to their software . |