Example sentences of "[art] [n mass] [prep] the first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Personally I think that the answer is for manufacturers such as Olivetti to not pass the buck to the dealer using the excuse that it is the dealer who made the buck in the first place ! |
| 2 | ‘ I always wanted to tackle the overcrowding in Darlington which is why I provided the £243,000 in the first place . |
| 3 | This means that initial conditions need to be specified so as to provide the data for the first set of calculations . |
| 4 | Although the data from the first study are still being analysed , initial results are promising . |
| 5 | Their results and the data from the first stage will be used to test how far and in what way the experience of the NICs can be a model for their successors . |
| 6 | The first 5 portfolios ( P 1 to P 5 ) use the data from the first part of Table 6.6(a) . |
| 7 | The only difference would be that the government would pay a private firm to provide the data in the first place . |
| 8 | possessing the head and torso of a man and the body and legs of a potent stallion , centaurs were the offspring of the first King of Thessaly and the cloud Nephele . |
| 9 | The newly-flooded margins will be attractive to the fish in the first few days , until the sudden influx of size ten waders make them wary . |
| 10 | Such educated guesswork can be eliminated if you can actually see the fish in the first place . |
| 11 | It may prove an effective contraceptive , but what effect will it have on the ‘ worms ’ who produce the sperm in the first place ? |
| 12 | Alan had been in the third coach of the second train and was therefore luckier than the people in the first and second coaches , several of whom were dead |
| 13 | Erm as you can see the sales in the first two are expected to be four point nine almost five million pounds . |
| 14 | Differences between the means of the first five days of illness were significant by the Kruskal-Wallis test ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 15 | The first bar , beginning with E and C , would seem set to create a tonality of C major , but this is immediately contradicted by the F-F of the first violin . |
| 16 | Micro Focus Plc makes a very good living out of a programming language that many believed would be long dead by now yet still shows no signs of fading away — but if object-oriented programming fulfils its promise and sweeps away the paraphernalia of the first 35 years of the computer industry , Micro Focus is going to have to be ready and waiting if it is not going to be swept away too . |
| 17 | Jonathan Fry , director of Yorkshire and Humberside Low Pay Unit : ‘ We welcome the new tax rate of 20p in the £ for the first £2,000 of taxable income although we would prefer it to be even lower . |
| 18 | Martino 's ambition to reunite the series for the first time in thirty years has , however , been thwarted by the refusal of Sophia Loren to loan ‘ Study for a Pope V ’ , but the exhibition reassembles the remaining five canvases , including the version owned by the Musei Vaticani . |
| 19 | Edward England , who inspired the series in the first place , has left Hodders , and I took my leave of St. John 's in 1975 in order to become Rector of St. Aldate 's Church , Oxford . |
| 20 | Both rely on something lost being found , a sheep in the first parable and a silver coin in the second . |
| 21 | Retail sales were up 1.4pc over the past three months , consumer expenditure was up half a percent on the first quarter and there were indications that consumer confidence had shown a sharp rise in May . |
| 22 | Desmond Haynes ' first taste of Test captaincy was not a very happy experience , going for a duck in the first innings , dropping a catch and demeaning himself with the sledging as the match slipped away . |