Example sentences of "[subord] the first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The initial impact will be felt most keenly in the infant school where the first stages of the National Curriculum are already in place . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Machico — where the first settlers landed |
| 6 | They are now hailed as nothing less than the first Europeans . |
| 7 | And harder than the first weeks are the first days . |
| 8 | When its petrol tank exploded a few minutes later , the flames from the blazing car , the house and the cainca lit the dawn sky more brilliantly than the first rays of the rising sun . |
| 9 | And harder than the first months are the first weeks . |
| 10 | Although the first variants suffered from numerous teething problems , the aircraft became one of the most successful products ever built by Lockheed and seeing the various types all filmed in glorious colour certainly makes this video a must for all Constellation fans . |
| 11 | Although the first fruits of this decision took place in l982 , the writing had been on the wall , and read by us many years before that , and it took a period of some years to find a way of moving out of polythene , which was not only ICI 's own proud invention , but an area where we had been acknowledged world leaders for many years . |
| 12 | Although the first units were somewhat spartan , the later builds were well equipped and responsible for a sizeable upturn in passenger business on some routes . |
| 13 | Although the first drops of water only officially began to trickle into the basin in 1975 , Rutland Water is already famous for its wildfowl numbers . |
| 14 | We married because I was pregnant , so the first years of our marriage were spent in a whirlwind of babies and evening jobs to earn extra money . |
| 15 | Once the first contacts were made , the fieldworker attempted to fulfil certain goals which are outlined only briefly here ( see Labov 1981 : 8 for details ) . |
| 16 | Once the first pangs of hunger had been satisfied , Cranston interrogated the friar . |
| 17 | MacCulloch ( 1819 ) , and later , Murchison and Geikie ( 1861 ) , provided the first accounts of the geology of Lewis and Harris and the other islands which constitute the north east-south west chain of islands called the Outer Hebrides , which lies some 70 km west of the northern Scottish mainland . |
| 18 | Remember the order of training and try not to be tempted to have the horse ‘ on the bit ’ until the first stages are consolidated and the horse has become supple and balanced . |
| 19 | There is no intention to review the announcement on the Scottish regiments , but there is at least two years until the first amalgamations and the hon. Gentleman will be aware that the Scottish ones will take place at the end of the process . |
| 20 | As summer drew on , the ocean of green became darker and darker until the first fires of autumn caught the leaves and turned them into a patchwork of burnished copper and gold leaving the black of the yews standing out once more . |
| 21 | It will not be possible to say whether validation has been effective in ensuring that the Council 's courses are truly fulfilling their aims until the first graduates start entering industry but we have already started to review the operation of the validation process . |
| 22 | He booked the second floor of the Ivy restaurant near the theatre and there Lou and Pat , and his closest friends of the moment , would drink endless cups of coffee until the first editions of the paper came out . |
| 23 | In pursuance of this last , they waited until the first yells and screams sounded from the unhappy village , followed quickly by the glow of fire . |
| 24 | This provides a valuable feedback loop , in one sense , which forces the ‘ teacher ’ to seek more appropriate methods or goals if the first strategies are not successful . |
| 25 | This means making representations at the initial draft stage , when public comment is sought , and going through what is effectively a planning appeal if the first comments are ignored and a formal objection has to be lodged . |
| 26 | erm so er tt I think the other thing that 'll be nice if erm er given , if the first years are filling it in er in about a week and a half 's time , if we could if you could try and bash some of the data in fairly rapidly so that , you know kind of before the end of term we can , you know , kind of give them a brief digest of how , what , what the results were |
| 27 | Every weekend there was some little reference to the danger of someone realising what was going on , and last Tuesday night too , when I had to come and see for myself if you were all right because the first reports of the earthquake were so horrifying . |
| 28 | Faulty learning occurs because the first instances of it were inappropriately reinforced by the parents or other caretakers of the child . |
| 29 | Icing conditions should be avoided , though , because the first components to suffer a build-up are the throttle-rods in the intake ducts ahead of the engines . |
| 30 | ‘ I keep the subject constantly before me , and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into the full and clear light . ’ |