Example sentences of "[prep] the first and [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 22 Cadenzas for the first and second movements of the C major keyboard concerto , K.246 1b & 2b . |
| 2 | He then quoted Hunt 's estimates for the first and second prizewinning schemes and pointed out the saving achieved with Scott 's modified scheme . |
| 3 | and Margaret Casey ( both of the New Zealand Bar ) for the first and second respondents . |
| 4 | Labour demand is denoted generally by where N denotes the number of workers demanded , w is the wage rate , and the subscripts are the usual notation for the first and second order derivatives . |
| 5 | This , however , is not the case for the first and third examples using the same adjective . |
| 6 | Bruce Dern said Corman did him and Nicholson a favour by getting them a part because they both needed the money at the time ; Corman arranged it so that their shooting schedules would require them to be available for the first and last weeks of the four-week stint , thus , under union rules guaranteeing them a salary cheque for the full four weeks . |
| 7 | This , perhaps the most tragic of all goals seen at Wembley , sent the Cup out of England for the first and last time . |
| 8 | Worcester was the site for the first and last of the Civil War battles and today it calls itself ‘ the Civil War City ’ . |
| 9 | It is sad that Orwell should have been bedridden and dying when he met Waugh , for the first and last time . |
| 10 | A pity Orwell and Waugh found no chance to discuss such weighty questions when they met , for the first and last time , in 1949 . |
| 11 | One symptom of the pope 's embarrassment is that for the first and last time he made a concession to Anselm on the subject of the primacy of Canterbury , which we must deal with later . |
| 12 | In the case of other human beings I have the evidence of my senses for the first and last links of the series , but not for the intermediate link . |
| 13 | Touring America for the first and last time , the group squabbled incessantly , among themselves and with McLaren , leading John Lydon finally to quit the group . |
| 14 | ‘ Then I 'll wish for the first and last dance tonight and as many as you can spare in between , ’ Harry rejoined , and was pleased to see that Cora-Beth was actually blushing . |
| 15 | For the first and last time in my life I saw my father in tears . |
| 16 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 17 | Martinho had lost no time in recounting the true details of Osvaldo 's moment of weakness , the point at which he 'd flipped his lid for the first and last time in his career , that murderous aberration which had been the doom of old friend and new foe alike . |
| 18 | I found that I put them back into their correct order with ease and , for the first and last time , achieved some distinction in the marking . |
| 19 | Hilary particularly remembers ‘ … the mesmeric Senta , whose teaching was so brilliant that Rata Quick and I both achieved the splits for the first and last time in our lives , with no untoward effects ! ’ . |
| 20 | My father 's tour with 112 Squadron finished at the end of May and on the 31st Sgt Pilot Davis flew FX740 for the first and last time , sadly being shot down by ack-ack in the vicinity of Frosinone , south of Rome . |
| 21 | Fashanu is still included in Hearts squad to face Partick Thistle tomorrow and may partner Mo Johnston for the first and last time as John Robertson is almost certainly out . |
| 22 | They had done so by being in the right place at the right time , for the first and last time in their history . |
| 23 | It had been suggested that the Russians ' use of an ineligible player , Mikhail Rusayev , during the first and second rounds could open the door for the English club 's return , in the manner of Leeds ' dramatic European Cup reprieve . |
| 24 | HISTORIC war department buildings in Essex are being restored to their former glory.Jobless volunteers have started clearing overgrowth from around the wartime buildings at Beacon Hill , Harwich , paving the way for full restoration work in the future.The work is being organised by NACRO , the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders , on behalf of the Essex Training and Enterprise Council.Project supervisor Ray Rawlinson said the 18 people working at Beacon Hill were long-term unemployed and did not have criminal records.The buildings date back to the Napoleonic wars were updated during the first and second world wars . |
| 25 | Should women continue to weight train in pregnancy and be allowed to engage in intense exercise during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy ? |
| 26 | Cohen et al ( 1988 ) reported two case histories of runners who , unaware that they had conceived continued intense running regimes during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy ; both women had assumed their amenorrhoea was due to endurance training . |
| 27 | Later research showed that they were in fact storehouses and workshops , attached to hut-dwelling communities during the first and second centuries AD : quernstones were found in such a cellar at Barns of Airlie , and a chamber in a Carlungie souterrain seems to have been used for both stone and metal working . |
| 28 | When human society became more developed , achieving an efficient order under one ruler during the First and Second Dynasties , divine power was anthropomorphised and deities began to take human form . |
| 29 | During the first and third hours , saline was infused into the aorta ; during the second hour , 5HT was infused . |
| 30 | Accordingly , the AKT was administered during the first and last of the group sessions and constituted a straightforward method for evaluating the success of the first course objective : specifically , to increase participants ' alcohol knowledge so that future alcohol use can be more informed and therefore more prudent . |