Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | These are people who are so obsessed with the first decade of this new century that they 're inclined to forget for a moment the nineteen hundred or so years that went before it . |
| 32 | However , the input signals must be extremely small for the first of these two equations to apply with constant parameters . |
| 33 | I was so excited by the first decent piece of gold ever found , that a test I once read about came into mind . |
| 34 | With the DES having to settle for this , and with the Diploma being seen in higher education as merely equivalent to the first two years of a degree programme , it became not an alternative track in higher education , but an ambiguous poor relation to the degree . |
| 35 | This was especially true of the first Dalek serial which had many rewrites done to it before it was finally handed to Christopher Barry and Raymond Cusick . |
| 36 | Ah well , her parents were old now , and retired , and nobody thought them funny any more : indeed , it was only the intensely conventional world of a Yorkshire boarding-school that had made them seem so eccentric in the first place . |
| 37 | The business of travel is vital to the economic survival of such countries , but as the numbers of tourists and travellers increase , a compromise has to be reached between the identity of the host country and the ‘ golden hordes ’ of tourists which threaten to swamp it and destroy the very characteristics which make it so attractive in the first place . |
| 38 | For some , homesickness is so bad during the first few months that they have no alternative but to go back home again . |
| 39 | I retreated into my shell , being painfully shy in the first place . |
| 40 | Although not profitable in the first year of acquisition , BMK with its complementary customer base and very different range of production equipment , will greatly strengthen us in the longer term . |
| 41 | The firebox and boiler of No. 3822 were equally packed out too , as WSR Driver Dave Williams and Fireman Gareth Winter had the engine just right for the first four-mile assault on Crowcombe Bank . |
| 42 | but I think one one might still see this in terms of , of Mao 's ideas on excesses that , that clearly the situation was not right in the first half of , of nineteen forty seven . |
| 43 | Er , after that people starting going on leave , is is anybody out away due in the first week in August ? |
| 44 | I do n't know whether enjoyed it as he was sound asleep for the first 8 miles , but he certainly was n't complaining either — a merciful relief ! |
| 45 | Over the latter generally slowly improving money wages brought a degree of improvement in real wages because cereal prices were generally low over the first half of the century . |
| 46 | Although what is and is not acceptable in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist changes from minute to minute . |
| 47 | Whether they are filtered or not , expanding dictionary definitions may provide a way of accessing semantic relations that are not accessible at the first level . |
| 48 | These are buttons which operate the power-zoom on the lens , and they should be comfortably accessible to the first and second fingers of the right hand , although different models vary on this . |
| 49 | SSP is not payable for the first three qualifying days in a PIW . |
| 50 | Housing benefit is not payable for the first £16.25 of rent outside London or £23.45 of rent within London for any student . |
| 51 | If the NBC Symphony 's virtuosity is already breathtaking in the first and second movements , then the finale is still more amazing in its precision , weight and attack . |
| 52 | ‘ I 'm expecting him to report and , with five matches in the next four weeks , any player who is not fit for the first game will not necessarily miss the rest of them , ’ said Taylor . |
| 53 | Quakers were not disgraced in the first derby match of Third Division standing played at the Victoria Ground . |
| 54 | By his order dated 14 July 1992 the judge granted a declaration that it was not unlawful for the first or third defendants to administer a blood transfusion to T. if they considered that it was in her best interests to do so . |
| 55 | The omens for the new state were not encouraging in the first months of its existence . |
| 56 | Hence the long , much altered and much discussed passage beginning already mentioned on p. 85 ; and the ‘ spots of time ’ meditation to be discussed on pp. 134–9 — which is at the heart of Wordsworth 's concern with the use of the past , this too is already present in the first Part of the 1798–9 version , before being moved to its present position in the longer texts . |
| 57 | ‘ Sam Velerisms ’ , as they were called , which became the basis for ‘ Sam Wellerisms ’ , were famous in the period 1831–6 , just prior to the first publication of The Pickwick Papers . |
| 58 | Albert Einstein was largely responsible for the first , was entirely responsible for the second , and played a major role in the development of the third . |
| 59 | This lesion ( Fig. 22 ) is largely responsible for the first clinical signs . |
| 60 | It is not available in the first year of the policy and in the second year only £250 — about two hours ' worth for a top London matrimonial lawyer -will be met for each party . |