Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a liberal democracy this needs to be scrutinized constantly , and herein lies the first problem for the researcher . |
| 2 | Yeah , that 's true up to a point , but you 've got ta remember though that that only affects the first half , or first bit of season . |
| 3 | It 's you that normally wins the first hand and me for the rest . |
| 4 | SGS-Thomson Microelectronics BV will get its second capital injection of $500m from its backers by the end of June , its French state shareholder CEA-Industrie says : it already has the first payment of $250m each from France and Italy . |
| 5 | The activity of this membrane enzyme thus provides the first control step in the prostaglandin pathway by limiting the availability of arachidonic acid substrate ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 6 | When it comes to considering legislation , as in managing his Department , the Minister soon faces the first test of the statesman : the reconciliation of political ideology and opinion to the demands of sharply practical situations . |
| 7 | Tom Berman , now in Israel , still has the first letter his mother wrote from Czechoslovakia to the Millers in Glasgow on 14 June 1939 . |
| 8 | He still remembers the first record he bought — Frank Philips narrating Peter and the Wolf on Ace of Clubs with Britten 's Young Person 's Guide ( LPO/Concertgebouw/van Beinum ) . |
| 9 | This still leaves the first topic , namely why in practice government does interfere , and the question of motivations embodied in one central group of actors not so far highlighted , the regulators themselves . |
| 10 | The exhibition also represents the first showing of works by Olga Rozanova and reveals her as a very substantial painter who clearly made a crucial contribution to the Russian Avant-garde : the paintings are stunning , both in scale and conception , and the unusual colour contrasts are highly original . |
| 11 | There is one tablet from Knossos which lists several deities including Potnia and Enualios , a name which later was used as an alternative to Ares , the Greek war-god ; it also has the first part of Poseidon 's name , ‘ po-se-da- ’ , but the end is broken off . |
| 12 | OBJECTIVITY ALSO HAS THE FIRST OBJECT DATABASE FOR WINDOWS NT |
| 13 | Not only does Italy-Brazil represent many people 's ideal coupling for next summer 's World Cup final in Rome but this afternoon 's game also marks the first occasion the two countries have met since that afternoon seven years ago in Spain when the Italians dismissed Falcao , Zico , Junior et al , 3-2 on their way to winning the 1982 World Cup . |
| 14 | The starting pulse also triggers the first delay circuit , which delays the pulse for a time , during which the motor moves to the first phase switching position . |
| 15 | When the number of steps to be executed is equal to the number of deceleration delay circuits the downcounter produces a pulse , which switches off the clock and also triggers the first deceleration delay , T1' . |
| 16 | The transliteration of the original with qwt , in line 3 , reasonably accurately represents the first letter ( which might also be represented as a figure nine if nine has a straight back stroke ) . |
| 17 | But whether all this back-to-the-future stuff is the final , futile , heroic twitch in the corpse of pop music bludgeoned near to death by metal and techno , or whether this instinctive return to flamboyance and sexual ambiguity really signals the first stirrings of a full-scale revolution , the fact is that 1992 desperately yearns to be 20 years younger and ‘ Back In Denim ’ is New Glam 's most articulate manifesto so far . |
| 18 | Now comes the first LP — picked up by Guernica in the face of widespread interest — which confirms the potential ‘ Palomine ’ , with nine original tracks , and one Sebadoh cover , is a warm , uplifting and engrossing record . |
| 19 | Tomorrow sees the first round of the President 's Trophy takes place at Northern . |
| 20 | Today sees the first appearance of the American team , comprising John McEnroe and Pam Shriver , who face Australia . |
| 21 | Ahead of its international user meeting and training conference in San Jose , California on April 27 , when the majority of System 10 components will be unveiled , Sybase Inc tomorrow unveils the first module in the latest release of its relational database management system products . |
| 22 | Here arises the first problem : how completely must the picture of the disease and the remedy match in order to be assured of a beneficial result ? |
| 23 | On ‘ One More Time ’ , the single which launched his relationship with Germany 's Logic Records , Blake simply recites the first verse of the garage classic ‘ Let No Man Put Asunder ’ and sounds like her 's got his tongue in your ear . |
| 24 | This effectively eliminates the first stage of the nitrogen cycle . |
| 25 | Antony then concludes the first part of his speech with an impressive display of emotion . |
| 26 | The danger of adopting a systems approach uncritically is that it is assumed that it is sufficient to identify system structures and to portray the multitudinous variables involved in a particular system which then reinforces the first law of ecology as graphically described by Commoner ( 1972 ) that everything is connected to everything else . |
| 27 | The gestural usage of there favours the first interpretation , the symbolic usage the second . |
| 28 | This is called a ‘ bottom turn ’ and closely resembles the first half of a carve gybe . |