Example sentences of "[subord] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place . |
| 2 | By way of contrast , the Spanish conquerors of northwest South America ( modern Colombia ) , where the first deposits were found , regarded it as a dangerous adulterant of gold and silver and tried to prohibit its export — unavailingly , although its supply to European chemists was made capricious . |
| 3 | * Except those claims arising from Subsidence , where the special conditions apply , or from Fire or Property Owners Liability , where the first £50 will not be excluded . |
| 4 | The £50 excess will not apply to : Buildings — claims arising from subsidence , where the special conditions apply , or from Fire or Property Owners ' liability , where the first £50 will not be excluded . |
| 5 | The initial impact will be felt most keenly in the infant school where the first stages of the National Curriculum are already in place . |
| 6 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 7 | The price factors are calculated for the first day of the delivery month , and adjustments have to be made for accrued interest where the first day of the delivery month does not coincide with a coupon payment date . |
| 8 | Like tonight , Parents ' Evening , when they had assembled at his behest in the Staff Common Room overlooking the school driveway to watch out for arriving parents and usher them through to the headmaster 's sitting-room , where the first part of the festivities were to take place . |
| 9 | Day 7 ) Camped at site where the first jetstream was spotted in 1956 . |
| 10 | She was the last down to the dining room , where the first course , a cold soup , was already laid . |
| 11 | Thus , where the first coordinators fulfilled a brief dominated by special needs , with curriculum development and TTT level-pegging a little way behind , they and their successors in 1989 were as likely to be concerned with curriculum management and teaching , in collaboration or alone . |
| 12 | Particularly in the business of softer drugs , where the taxes can be lower and the restrictions less onerous , and where the first trial steps towards legalisation should take place , it would undermine the ‘ risk premium ’ that provides drug cartels with their profits . |
| 13 | A similar case of Fermi resonance occurs in , where the first overtone of the C=S stretch at 1033 cm -1 interacts with the N=C stretch near 2070 cm -1 to give two IR bands of comparable intensity ( Fig. 5.35 ) . |
| 14 | The first is the score for the bigram transition [ i , j ] ; the second is the index in the trigram matrix where the first trigram transition beginning with [ i , j ] is to be found . |
| 15 | A minibus took me through the early morning light to Makindye , in the southern suburbs of the city , where the first Uganda National Women 's Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing in a large church hall . |
| 16 | Jamaica , where the first railway of 1845 was the first in the British colonial empire , was provided with a diverse group of wonderfully eccentric stations . |
| 17 | Such an approach might begin by adopting Goffman 's ( 1976 ) distinction between systems-constraints and ritual-constraints , where the first labels the ingredients essential to sustaining any kind of systematic interweaving of actions by more than one party , and the second those ingredients that , while not essential to the maintaining of interaction , are nevertheless typical of it they are , if one likes , the social dimensions of interaction . |
| 18 | His ancestors came from Tilley , just across the parish boundary , where the first Richard Gough of that name died in 1538 at the age of eighty-three . |
| 19 | Plus five , no problem there , start where the first number tells us to start . |
| 20 | As is well known , English is not one of those languages where word stress can be decided simply in relation to the syllables of the word , as can be done in French ( where the last syllable is usually stressed ) , Polish ( where the syllable before the last — the penultimate syllable — is stressed ) or Czech ( where the first syllable is stressed ) . |
| 21 | And this was applicable where the first accommodation was in another country . |
| 22 | Vendors may also , against the advice of their agents , enter into a contract race , where the first purchaser to sign the contract secures the land . |
| 23 | What was decided in regard to the applicant Handscomb was that where the first review date predicated an equivalent determinate sentence well in excess of that which could have been imposed under established sentencing practice , there was impugnable unreasonableness . |
| 24 | The differences in expansivity can be accounted for if the interaction parameter is now expressed as where the first term reflects the interchange energy on forming contacts of unlike type and includes segment size differences , while the second term is the new ‘ structural ’ contribution coming from free volume changes on mixing a dense polymer with an expanded solvent . |
| 25 | She had an idea where the first sniper had been but in any case he could have moved . |
| 26 | Who would have thought today Sarajevo , where the first shot of that war was fired , would be in the news ? |
| 27 | Haas was a very great editor and made important restorations ; but you ca n't always go back to Bruckner 's first ideas — the first version of the Eighth Symphony , for example , where the first movement ends with a fortissimo coda . |
| 28 | Again we can see the effect that loss has upon us , where the first stage is shock and disbelief , and an inability to take in the reality of what is being said . |
| 29 | For where the first stage , the mechanised production in factories of consumer goods for an existing colonial market virtually monopolised by Britain , promised and provided immediate and enormous profit on a relatively modest outlay , the second did not . |
| 30 | A year ago we won a race at Carlisle , nearer to the south than Kelso , where the first prize was £503 and the horse box alone was £500 . |