Example sentences of "[adv] the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 32 | It can be shown that and so the first term on the right-hand side of eqn ( 20.7 ) represents the transfer of energy between wavenumbers . |
| 33 | ( 10.68 ) It follows from this and ( 10.66 ) that , and so the first term in ( 10.64 ) must necessarily be included in these solutions . |
| 34 | So the first job for us is to starve them of possession ; the second to use our ball intelligently . |
| 35 | So the first thing in geology , why is geology important ? |
| 36 | So the first stage of identifying modern multimedia is to focus on its power to draw together different forms of communication , smoothly integrating them within a digital environment , and providing access to the stored information using computer systems which are fast , friendly and , above all , interactive . |
| 37 | The vehicle shot forward , and as it did so the first rocks from above came hurtling down onto the track just behind us . |
| 38 | So the first lesson in organising your staff successfully is to define their responsibilities , tell them what they 're there for . |
| 39 | Mastering the handwriting of the Tudor and Stuart eras is merely the first step in tackling these documents . |
| 40 | The rate ratio for admission was similar when only the first admission of each child was counted ( 27 vs 42 , rate ratio 0.65 [ 0.41–1.04 ] , p=0.09 ) . |
| 41 | Establishing the existence of a reason for dismissal falling within the legislation is only the first hurdle upon which the employer has the burden of proof . |
| 42 | Only the first presentation of a lecture is worthy of credit . |
| 43 | However , in this case only the first reference to any descriptor appears in an index , while all further linkages are made from record to record ( rather as in a chain of synonyms in a direct file ) . |
| 44 | Note that only the first kind of relational information , i.e. that on the speaker-referent axis , imposes intrinsic limitations on the ways in which such information can be encoded — namely in referring expressions , and morphological agreements with them . |
| 45 | for loss of or damage to property belonging to or held in trust by or in the custody or control of the Insured Person ( other that self catering accommodation where only the first £50 of any loss or damage is excluded ) ; |
| 46 | It is always dangerous when the hon. Gentleman reads only the first half of a sentence . |
| 47 | The right hon. Member for Lagan Valley said that he was not clear whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman had finished or was still giving way , and my right hon. Friend referred to what looked like only the first half of his speech . |
| 48 | Only the first part of this work is much read nowadays and that is what is discussed here . |
| 49 | Cyril Humphries , the dealer who supplied Dr Sackler with most of his maiolica , backs up Mrs Sackler 's claim , noting that ‘ Dr Sackler always told me he would like to keep the collection intact … he wanted eventually to collect the entire spectrum of ceramic arts , and the maiolica was only the first part of it . ’ |
| 50 | He would have been wiser to have published only the first part of this book . |
| 51 | Here we give only the first part of Ohmann 's illustration : [ 8 ] the desk and the shelf above it on which rested the ledgers in which McCaslin recorded the slow outward trickle of food and supplies and equipment which returned each fall as cotton made and ginned and sold … |
| 52 | It was wonderful , the shops were excellent , it was only the first day of our holiday and I had spent most of my money . |
| 53 | Perhaps only the first Test between New Zealand and South Africa in 1952–53 can rank with it , when each side had four players whose surname started with the letter M. South Africa had McGlew , McLean , Murray and Mansell , while the New Zealanders fielded Meuli , Miller , Mooney and Moir . |
| 54 | Greece thus offers not only the first instance of this change but also the essential one for any attempt to isolate the cultural consequences of alphabetic literacy ’ ( ibid. p. 42 ) . |
| 55 | What needs to be stressed at this juncture is the fact that this historical moment , the focus of attention in this book , centred as it is on the literary production of an interwar French communist writer , marks only the first phase of development of French socialist realism , a phase characterised in the international sphere by an objective alliance after 1934 between Western liberalism and Soviet communism designed to counter the threat of fascism , and characterised in the French national context by practical collaboration between the PCF and bourgeois liberal parties . |
| 56 | Lily was on the point of having what might yet prove to be only the first stage of a thoracoplasty . |
| 57 | Once again , constraints on space make it necessary to address only the first stage of development , which occurs between the ages of 0 and about 18 months . |
| 58 | This is a weak test because an invitation to interview is only the first stage of selection . |
| 59 | But this is only the first stage of WEN 's campaign , and one element of the findings in The Sanitary Protection Scandal . |
| 60 | However , as was pointed out there , the waves predicted by such theory are only the first stage of the evolution towards turbulent motion . |