Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The film covers only the first two-thirds of the book but is dramatically more satisfying because it is the story of Tom Joad 's political awakening . |
| 2 | Although this book covers just the first half-century of the period , it is a valuable contribution to the subject , as are the further volumes in the Pelican Social History series : Britain 1800–1870 by V.A.C . |
| 3 | The intro locks with the kick , adding subtle fills in the first four bars . |
| 4 | It could be implied in the operation code whether the first or second store address is to receive the result , but in practice any particular computer uses always the first address , or always the second address , as the destination : for example the SS ( two address ) format of the IBM 370 range uses the first address as the destination . |
| 5 | The CIT thanks Transport Development Group for the fine portrait of Philip Henman which now hangs on the first floor landing at 80 Portland Place . |
| 6 | However , they went on to comment that the assumed riskless rate of 6 per cent in Part 1 of the results may have been an over estimate , as Part II shows only the first 2 factors to be significant while the fifth factor lost all explanatory power . |
| 7 | Nice control on the ball by Gemmell Rozario shakes off the first challenge from Whitlow and feeds Black . |
| 8 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 9 | Gets harder the first do n't it ? |
| 10 | It is always dangerous when the hon. Gentleman reads only the first half of a sentence . |
| 11 | In a research note on MTM , brokers Kleinwort Benson comment that ‘ the short term future of the company is dependent on support from its bankers , which partly explains why the first half figures have been audited . ’ |
| 12 | We have been concerned with how one leads into the other , or how the second strikes sparks off the first . |
| 13 | He spells out the first name and I 'm thinking Jemayl/Jemmel , uh-huh . |
| 14 | In none of these cases does either the first or the second element qualify as a semantic constituent : |
| 15 | The first is probably the one copied by the BBC Sound Archive in 1935 ; at any rate , it comprises only the first three sentences . |
| 16 | A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose ! |
| 17 | One of the " movements " in the suite which makes up the first act of Wozzeck is , it may be recalled , a passacaglia , that is , a set of variations on a ground bass . |
| 18 | JUST as spring brings out the first swallows , so it also motivates incoming club tours from one or more of the four home countries . |