Example sentences of "[vb past] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the question , to sharpen up the one we posed in the first chapter , is not : ‘ How can I stop myself getting ‘ like that ’ ? ’ , as if ‘ like that ’ were a chronic condition into which one slowly but permanently sank . |
| 2 | As we mentioned in the first chapter of this book , egalitarian marriage is now widely promoted as an ideal , but recent research indicates that there is a wide gulf between what is said to be happening in terms of sharing in marriage and what actually happens . |
| 3 | Even if the insurance market allows that to continue to the same extent , it will be small compensation to the director who abdicated in the first place an increasing responsibility to him or herself to ensure that necessary controls and preventive measure were in place to prevent a risk turning into a reality . |
| 4 | The first point is that , of the five people generally named in any discussion of the generation gap theory , four are Free Presbyterians , which is a similar concentration to that found in the first generation of Paisley activists . |
| 5 | ( The Pentateuch or the Torah is the Law of Moses found in the first five books of the Old Testament . ) |
| 6 | The age distribution of known opioid users was similar to that found in the first survey , with 69 per cent being aged between 16 and 24 years ( compared to 75 per cent in 1984–5 ) . |
| 7 | We found in the first covert and then twice more , I ca n't remember so many good runs in a day before , not all at once . ’ |
| 8 | A new campaign team headed by John Wakeham , the Secretary of State for Energy and a close political associate , was appointed to replace what had generally been regarded as the ineffective one used in the first ballot . |
| 9 | It may be argued that this is essentially the approach that I used in the first chapter . |
| 10 | Clinical deterioration occurred in the first three months of treatment in seven cases . |
| 11 | As he had argued in Totem and Taboo , murder occurred in the first human groups , and the prohibition on killing came from the father . |
| 12 | The independence of the people 's committees was not ultimately compatible with communist rule in north Korea and problems occurred in the first few months of communist dominance . |
| 13 | When this occurred in the first organisms on earth , evolution began , for such mistakes in copying are the source of variations from which natural selection can produce evolutionary change . |
| 14 | Our four hypertension related male deaths all occurred in the first 12 years of the 21 years of follow up , suggesting their treatment was probably begun too late . |
| 15 | Although a fall in numbers occurred in the first year after charges were introduced , that was largely due to the building works , but the figures have increased and Welsh men are looking forward enormously to the addition to their national museum . |
| 16 | Most cases occurred in the first 48 hours of detention ( until July 1988 Austrian law allowed detainees to be held incommunicado for 48 hours ) . |
| 17 | This cash outflow occurred in the first half of the year . |
| 18 | Figure 5 shows their distribution with time ; 49% occurred in the first four seconds after the onset of the common cavity episode and 34% were scattered over the 5th to the 27th second after the onset of the common cavity . |
| 19 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 20 | Most cases ( 63% ) of chronic diarrhoea occurred in the first two years of life . |
| 21 | Most complications ( n=7 ) occurred in the first third of the series and may partly be ascribed to a ‘ learning process ’ with the operation . |
| 22 | Well try the the one you tried in the first equation |
| 23 | A typical theoretical framework is that proposed in the first chapter of Bell ( 1991 ) , discussing the methodological requirements of translation . |
| 24 | First we need to start with the ‘ givens ’ of the situation — the objective features of the predicament which we reviewed in the first part of the last chapter . |
| 25 | The NORTH U21s , managed by Dave Parker , enjoyed their biennial pre-season tour to Marvejols in Central France where they were hosted for their week long visit by French families as the result of town twinning with Cockermouth , and the fantastic hospitality and often adventurous leisure activities were enjoyed not only by the players but also by referee Fred Howard , who officiated in the first two matches . |
| 26 | In P3/T1 we pivoted in the first column because |
| 27 | The judge in the later case finds some relevant fact in that case of sufficient importance to justify a different approach from that adopted in the first decision . |
| 28 | Clinton needed five stitches in an eye cut he suffered in the first round , when he also badly displaced the knuckles on his left hand . |
| 29 | It has , not surprisingly , been at the forefront of critical enterprises which have considered literature 's different relations with history that we explored in the first chapter . |
| 30 | Inflation especially in the United States , the United Kingdom , Germany and Italy , accelerated in the first half of 1990 to an average of 4.7 per cent . |