Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount of the tax rebate is at its highest during the last quarter of the tax year and it is obviously at its lowest during the first quarter . |
| 2 | It was Barbara Castle who remarked , when Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservatives in 1975 , that power had made her pretty for the first time . |
| 3 | He attached exteme , extreme importance to their visiting in the first few years . |
| 4 | The impression given by de la Broquière of the Mufti as a chiefly religious figure is strengthened by the only two known incidents in which one of the first three " traditional " Muftis was actively involved in his capacity as Mufti , namely Fahreddin Acemi 's rout of the Hurufis and his taking the chief seat in the debate on both of which incidents find parallels in the careers of later Muftis . |
| 5 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 6 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 7 | Married students are therefore advised to come to Edinburgh on their own in the first instance and to send for their families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 8 | He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then . |
| 9 | For , as Raymond Briggs once said , in Maus the cartoon book holds its own for the first time against all-comers as a literary medium . |
| 10 | HarperCollins weighs in with the A format of Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts ' Mistress of Empire ( £4.99 ) , while The Curse of the Mistwraith ( £8.99 ) sees Wurts on her own with the first a new series . |
| 11 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 12 | The row began after father and baby were evicted from a council bed and breakfast — on the grounds Steve made himself homeless in the first place . |
| 13 | I could have told you that in the first place . |
| 14 | To discourage petty claims , most insurers make you liable for the first £25 . |
| 15 | First decide on just two matches that appear to have outstanding draw chances and mark them X in the first column of the Treble Chance ( to the right of the fixtures ) . |
| 16 | Quote of the Buxton Conference came from American Paul Piana , whose audio-visual about the first free ascent of the Salathe Wall on El Cap proved to be a masterpiece of comedy . |
| 17 | He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience . |
| 18 | Lindemann , who was third in the 1989 World Cup Final , also has Abound qualified here , and rode this one clear in the first warm-up , and then withdrew him . |
| 19 | USL hopes to have something ready by the first quarter of next year . |
| 20 | Their vows were received by the General Moderator of the Congregation , Sr. Ellen Gielty , who was herself one of the first three Notre Dame missionaries to go to Nigeria in 1963 . |
| 21 | MP Jim Wallace made his appeal for such an inquiry on the floor of the House of Commons ; and when the topic was brought up at the Scottish Liberal Democrats Conference , he was supported by Judy Steel , wife of the former leader of the Liberal Party , and herself one of the first ever Reporters to a Children 's Panel when the system began in 1971 . |
| 22 | The troubles of the spirit are not always translated into the grosser medium of the flesh , but if I could not make this transfer with Miller then there would be no point in making him ill in the first place . |
| 23 | Dickie bored him all through the first course with stories of the Navy in the First World War , and all through the second course with stories of the Navy in the Second World War , and then he got up and said , ‘ I 've got to go now to a meeting of the Chiefs of Staff , but the Prime Minister will keep you amused . ' ’ |
| 24 | At the age of 9 , he was sent to the London Institution where he excelled himself so much that when the school 's Margate branch was opened in 1875 , the headmaster , Dr. Elliott , appointed him one of the first pupil-teachers , promoting him three years later to a junior teachership . |
| 25 | However , this effect may not last , and long-term follow-up is useful to ensure that the patient does not lapse into those unhealthy ways which made him unwell in the first place . |
| 26 | This alternative process made it possible for the first time to obtain 1- tert -alkyl , 1-cycloalkyl , 1-aryl , 1-heteroaryl and 1-aminoquinolone and azaquinolonecarboxylic acid derivatives by combined acylation and arylation ( aracylation ) of enamines and enhydrazines with o -halo-(het)aroyl halides . |
| 27 | The course of events after 1931 clearly revealed the inadequacy of pure aspiration as the basis for a science of international politics , and made it possible for the first time to embark on serious critical and analytical thought about international problems . |
| 28 | Sufficient data stretching back to the mid-sixteenth century have now been assembled to make it possible for the first time to study short-term as well as long-term characteristics of demographic behaviour at the micro level . |
| 29 | The key point was that the bases paired , making it possible for the first time to seem how a chemical entity might be able to store and copy information . |
| 30 | We allow ourselves a little bit more time to get the design right cos the reason we got it wrong in the first place was because it was a quick spend project and nobody er had time to do it properly . |