Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This system , devised by Rentokil 's Research and Development department , offers for the first time a non-chemical , twenty-four hour detection and protection system . |
| 2 | The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice . |
| 3 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
| 4 | Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas . |
| 5 | We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment . |
| 6 | Left : With psychological jammed knots in place , the author goes for the first ring on Renaissance ( E2/3 5c ) , Cross Hill , Adrspatch ( photo Graeme Ettle ) . |
| 7 | She had occasional epileptic fits after the first , and they so frightened Rose and her family that everyone became over-protective of her . |
| 8 | Forster exposes for the first time , with the official sanction of Du Maurier 's family , her fantasy life , her secret wartime affair , and the many contradictions in this complex woman 's inner life . |
| 9 | The new hang has for the first time brought together the figures de fantaisie by Fragonard , the Louvre 's ninety-three Corots , thirty paintings by Chardin and thirteen by Watteau , as well as a rotating selection of the preparatory drawings by Le Brun for his decorative scheme for the Louvre . |
| 10 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 11 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 12 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 13 | The UK government has for the first time ruled out the award of oil and gas exploration licences in certain areas on environmental grounds . |
| 14 | I 've yet to soc totally confirm the number of weeks Mrs wants during the first two sessions that 's up to week fourteen when she wants exactly to do the aids . |
| 15 | Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences . |
| 16 | Boro 's captain Tony Mowbray has a foot injury , so Coleman , a £400,000 buy from Mansfield , starts for the first time . |
| 17 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 18 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 19 | Sale starts during the first two weeks in January . |
| 20 | Beta testing starts during the first quarter of 1993 , with commercial availability expected by year-end . |
| 21 | Proudly proclaiming that this recording contains for the first time on one CD all of Bach 's Toccatas and Fugues ( including the Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV548 ) , it is indeed a well-stocked programme . |
| 22 | This can be reduced a little if she goes in with all she needs for the first few days : a clean dressing-gown , slippers , a change of night clothes and bedjacket and all the toilet articles and other small items she is likely to want . |
| 23 | The male looks after the first and the female the second . |
| 24 | Propagation is done by dividing the sprouting rhizomes , which it develops after the first year , or by seed . |
| 25 | I think so , looks like the first one |
| 26 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 27 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 28 | Add a word that begins with a different letter but rhymes with the first word . |
| 29 | Add a word that begins with a different letter but rhymes with the first word . |
| 30 | The objective fossil record starts with the first Ediacaran assemblages ( 560–600 million years ( Myr ) ago ) , but some evidence suggests that metazoans were already in existence as early as 800–1000Myr ago . |