Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the way it is said that the Tour de France does not really begin until it reaches the Alps , the cognoscenti contend that the first 63 holes are jockeying for position . |
| 2 | Admissible algorithms guarantee that the first spanning path found will be the highest scoring . |
| 3 | He also submitted that it was essential that a jury should reach a rational conclusion by a rational process of thought , and he further submitted that it was wholly irrational for them in effect to hold that the first appellant did not act in concert with the second appellant , but that the second appellant acted in concert with the first appellant . |
| 4 | Its supporters claim that the first would be the first step towards a test reactor that would burn plasma for long periods . |
| 5 | The boat lurched as the first real waves lifted the bow and dropped it again . |
| 6 | Four months elapsed before the first section was satisfactorily completed . |
| 7 | Mr Lang said that the first priority of Scottish teachers should be to ensure their pupils were literate and numerate . |
| 8 | Commenting on this , Sebba and Wootton ( 1984 : 8 ) write : The switch to Creole occurs before the first instance of " build " is " and this could be taken as a direct quotation of the man 's words , rendered in Creole because he is apparently a Jamaican : cf. |
| 9 | The quality of being meaningful and unified , which the second passage has but the first passage lacks , is known as coherence . |
| 10 | Moreover , Walpole , described in the same book ( p. 83 ) as someone who " thrived on gossip , and on playing at loo or at hazard with a duchess or two " , could very well have been a sufficiently astute observer of social mores to deduce that the first manifestations which he had seen of the new way of dressing constituted the beginning of a major trend . |
| 11 | At half-past ten , the sound of voices below the library window indicated that the first lesson of the day was over and that coffee was about to be served . |
| 12 | There was no reason , Shiva thought after the first shock had subsided , to suppose any connection between this find and Ecalpemos . |
| 13 | She had let the lines go when the first brutal snap had straightened the nylon , and stood glancing back at me and staring up into the sky as I fought to control the power in the skies above us . |
| 14 | An income tax plus an allowance OA implies that the first OA pounds of pre-tax income are still retained after-tax . |
| 15 | In a similar vein , Dr M in Department B said that the first year is concerned with ‘ settling in and acquiring practice , and acquiring a certain body of common reading which can then be appealed to or built on in subsequent years ’ . |
| 16 | Mr Justice Morrit held that the first payment of £4,000 on 30 January together with the monthly sum of £1,000 by banker 's order was not enough to discharge in full the invoice for January 's work by the accountants , which was £5,307.25 . |
| 17 | Nehru , having accepted Commonwealth membership , was content to pay Mountbatten the compliment ; Jinnah announced that the first Governor-General of Pakistan would be himself . |
| 18 | Erm now erm as regards when it happens to people erm , again going back to this B B C Childwatch Survey um of girls sixty percent reported that the first incident happened when they were ten , forty percent of boys reported the first incident occurred when they were under ten so it seems , if you look at the sort of average , averages are quite deceptive in this area but nevertheless if you look at the average um it seems to happen slightly earlier for girls than for boys . |
| 19 | Most economists expect that the first real signs of an upturn will not appear until second-quarter figures are available . |
| 20 | When the great moment arrives and the first prospective buyer appears , be as cool , calm and collected as possible . |
| 21 | BR local officials attended and the first meeting of the association group was scheduled for Saturday 30th May to get the whole thing properly under way . |
| 22 | Astronomical computations show that the first day of the two calendars agreed in the year 2773 BC , and it has been concluded that this was when the Sothic calendar was introduced . |
| 23 | ISS assumed that the first three years would continue with a broad curriculum and would include subjects ( such as home economics ) which at present few schools consider to be compulsory in the fourth and fifth years . |
| 24 | The Battle of the Atlantic began when the first ship was sunk within 12 hours of the declaration of war in 1939 . |
| 25 | Labov notes that the first type of approach appears to work best in working-class neighbourhoods while the second is more successful in middle-class neighbourhoods . |
| 26 | The group laughed as the first strains of a Hungarian pop group wailed from the hall . |
| 27 | When dealing with a telephone enquiry it is essential that all the necessary information is at the fingertips of the receptionist as nothing is more irritating on the telephone than hesitancy through lack of knowledge or being asked to hang on whilst information is being looked up — and always have alternatives to offer if the first choice is not available . |
| 28 | Only the other day a leader of the student movement in Prague said that the first letter of support they had received from abroad after baptising the revolution in their blood on November 17 was from him , with the signatures of four other Soviet Academicians . |
| 29 | The Saturday morning sport Outreach scheme was successful and Mrs. Wilson hoped that the first of the affordable homes would be completed by August . |
| 30 | This process continues until the first person arrives back in the front . |