Example sentences of "[subord] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditional bloom process was still capable of meeting all needs , for a negligible outlay ; the exotic indirect process had been introduced as an act of state policy simply in order to make cannons , the need for which had been proved by the effectiveness of French artillery — against the English themselves — in the wars of the fifteenth century ; Newbridge , where the first successful gun had been cast in 1509 , was Crown property . |
| 2 | After infection , the egg hatches in the small intestine and the L2 travels to the liver , where the first parasitic moult takes place . |
| 3 | The origins of English Christianity can be found in Glastonbury Abbey , where the first Christian sanctuary in the British Isles was established and where , according to legend , King Arthur was buried . |
| 4 | And Russia is , after all , where the first English joint-stock company , of the sort whose shares we would recognise on the market today , got off the ground . |
| 5 | England expects nothing less than the first back-to-back grand slam since 1924 and there is little evidence to suggest it might not be duly delivered in south west London this afternoon . |
| 6 | Today 's microcomputer , at a cost of perhaps $300 , has more computing capacity than the first large electronic computer , ENIAC [ Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ] . |
| 7 | Both plants and animals are made up of eukaryotic cells , although the first simple cell was the procaryotic type . |
| 8 | Although the first British atomic bomb had only just been tested a month before at Monte Bello Island off the north-west coast of Australia , the British government , under Churchill 's leadership , decided remarkably quickly in December to follow the American lead and to build its own hydrogen bomb as soon as possible . |
| 9 | Air travel grew rapidly : the first Pan Am passenger flight was on 18 January 1928 , although the first commercial passenger flights had been in German Zeppelins before the First World War , and French and British airlines had begun by the early 1920s . |
| 10 | Conversely , Gloucester inherited the services of the Tunstalls of Thurland ( Lancs. ) from Warwick , although the first formal record of a fee is apparently that granted by Gloucester to Thomas Tunstall in autumn 1471 . |
| 11 | Conversely , Gloucester inherited the services of the Tunstalls of Thurland ( Lancs. ) from Warwick , although the first formal record of a fee is apparently that granted by Gloucester to Thomas Tunstall in autumn 1471 . |
| 12 | Rose Shepherd goes on to argue that a first affair , usually based on attraction , leads to further affairs based on nothing more than boredom , loneliness , resentment , or the need for further boosting of confidence once the first extramarital partner has bowed out . |
| 13 | A report by a Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food provided the first official acknowledgment that lead fall-out from cars contributed significantly to the lead content of food . |
| 14 | Mrs Baggley 's evidence provided the first unshakeable facts about Paul 's whereabouts after he had left his home on the evening of his murder . |
| 15 | Nevertheless physicists have known about these effects for a long time ; indeed , measurements of splitting using radio frequency techniques ( with correspondingly low-energy photons ) provided the first direct evidence of non-spherical nuclei . |
| 16 | The highly charged atmosphere created by the boycott and the Bensonhurst trial provided the first severe test for the city 's first black mayor , David Dinkins . |
| 17 | Until the first new pay and conditions order is made under the new Act , the 1987 Act needs to be kept in being for a very short time for a very specific and limited purpose to ensure that all teachers continue to be covered by the existing pay and conditions order made under that Act . |
| 18 | Boeing said that no planes would be built until the first firm orders were placed by customers , signalling the start of a bitter fight with the Airbus consortium for orders . |
| 19 | When we had finished laughing we sat round the embers drinking tea until the first green light of dawn showed in the eastern sky . |
| 20 | Instead , he waited until the first fierce flood of tears had passed , then loosened his grip on her a little . |
| 21 | However , the under-manager of the society pointed out to us both in the politest possible terms that I was unable to withdraw one penny of the deposit until the first full year had been completed . |
| 22 | The Weatherzoom if the first weather-resistant zoom compact , complete with remote control . |
| 23 | Thus , for example , in reference resolution , if the first complete set of resolutions of the anaphors in a QLF is deemed implausible , other possible referents will be tried exhaustively for the last anaphor to be processed before any other changes are considered ; and the second QLF , if any , will not be considered at all unless no plausible set of resolutions can be derived for the first . |
| 24 | If the first British-born generation of Caribbeans can be said to date from the period around 1960 , then it began to reach its Creole-speaking adolescence around 1972 — as a result of a coincidence of factors which may or may not have something to do with the popularity of Jamaican music around that time . |
| 25 | In the meantime , would n't it be a wonderful kick in the teeth for the ‘ platinum clubs ’ if the first Premier silverware went to Norwich . |
| 26 | It now looks as if the first commercial versions will be brought to market soon after CD-I is made generally available worldwide . |
| 27 | Simply because the first mass-selling device , Hewlett-Packard 's LaserJet , used a laser-based imaging system we have grown accustomed to calling them laser printers . |
| 28 | I think he had a thing about it particularly because he knew the record company really was going for that song because the first American space shot was coming up . |
| 29 | The term ‘ nuclear ’ rather than ‘ atomic ’ is appropriate from this time onwards because the first American hydrogen bomb was tested in November 1952 . |
| 30 | Okay , but saw does n't C command Florence because the first branching node dominated saw , it 's a verb phrase and that does n't dominate Florence , it 's on the wrong branch . |