Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sleep spindles develop during the first two months of life , varying in frequency between 10 and 4Hz although showing no systematic tendency to increase in frequency with age ( as is the case with the waking alpha rhythm , which progressively becomes faster with age , to reach a maximum of 10–11Hz ) . |
| 2 | I mean for the first time there 's a erm a sort of Asian wholesale supermarket . |
| 3 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 4 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
| 5 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 6 | The Special Discount is being continued on the same basis ( see page 2 ) and for those policies which qualify for the first time the increase is offset by approximately 6% . |
| 7 | The net costs of Eagle Lodges appear for the first time in the income and expenditure account and are largely attributable to setting up costs as there was little income from occupancy during 1990 . |
| 8 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 9 | In discussing the interactions of mental illnesses and brain failure Gray and Isaacs ( 1979 ) showed that illnesses such as depression , psychosis and neurosis do continue to occur in old age but are more likely to recur than appear for the first time . |
| 10 | Foreign Offices of a modern kind , specialized in their functions , subdivided ( usually on a largely geographical basis ) into departments with still more specialized duties and employing considerable numbers of experts of all kinds , now appear for the first time in the major European capitals . |
| 11 | In this paper we report for the first time the isolation of cDNA for a zebrafish POU family gene which is ubiquitously expressed during embryogenesis . |
| 12 | Importantly , we report for the first time the ability to directly and effectively transfect cells in a growth arrested state . |
| 13 | We report for the first time the successful lithotripsy of a calcified cystic duct stone despite these relative and absolute contraindications in a patient with Crohn 's disease . |
| 14 | Though the Lions ' backs have the credentials and Winterbottom and Dean Richards have been in the heat of a Lions Test scrum , there are six forwards who will be experiencing a Lions Test for the first time . |
| 15 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 16 | So just skim through the first ten lines then eleven to the end really concentrate on . |
| 17 | After being pegged at 4–4 following the first frame of the evening session , Hendry raised his game to collect the £40,000 first prize — and become Masters champion for the first time . |
| 18 | Cork 's late strike made sure of a top 10 place for the first time since promotion — ‘ and a nice bonus , judging from the long faces in our boardroom , ’ grinned Mr Bassett . |
| 19 | Then , when we actually visit that place for the first time , a subconscious memory is triggered and we are convinced that we knew instinctively what it would look like . |
| 20 | TORBREX Wanderers have done much to keep the Scottish Indoor League championship race open by beating fellow Dundonians Menzieshill for the first time in the league last month . |
| 21 | Its stalkless flowers burst straight out of the branches and sometimes even the trunk , although in our climate they usually appear after the first leaves . |
| 22 | Roman troops as such scarcely appear after the first decade of the fifth century in any source , except the Notitia Dignitatum , which appears to be an idealized list drawn up in the 420s , and not a statement of the reality of the imperial fighting forces . |
| 23 | All appear in the first eight lines : |
| 24 | The more shaping involved in a pattern or garment section , the more written words appear in the first one . |
| 25 | Michael Slater of The Microprocessor Report believes the P5 will be slower than the R4000a when both appear in the first calendar quarter . |
| 26 | Have you used Say in the first one , |
| 27 | On the one hand , such action would simply rekindle the international outcry that resulted in the postponement of the ‘ harvest ’ or cull in the first place . |
| 28 | The other one was that they would be th the direct debit re-present on the first of April would be running one day late erm which , as a consequence , means that the recall re-presents would come back one day late . |
| 29 | Although James Braid is correctly credited with the course design , the Sandwich Professional was also involved for both their names appear on the first year 's accounts published in July 1908 for ‘ laying out , and advising as to links ’ , their respective fees being £15 6s. 6d. and £5 . |
| 30 | The only point I felt w you know we mentioned the other day that if , if there 's a rise say on the first of April then you wan na get in a couple of months before then . |