Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the first and " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , however , is not the case for the first and third examples using the same adjective . |
| 2 | An anonymous reviewer of the book in the Times Literary Supplement declared : ‘ If a student of British politics were to demand some precepts to guide his researches , the compiler would have little difficulty about the first and most significant maxim in the creed . |
| 3 | The proportion of young people from classes I and II staying on at school until the age of 18 or later increased by 2.4 times between the first and the last cohort , while the corresponding proportions for the other two groups of classes are 2.3 and 2.1 times . |
| 4 | Hilary particularly remembers ‘ … the mesmeric Senta , whose teaching was so brilliant that Rata Quick and I both achieved the splits for the first and last time in our lives , with no untoward effects ! ’ . |
| 5 | The recall part of the experiment started approximately 50 minutes after the first and 10 minutes after the last of the junctions had been driven through ( the exact times varied considerably depending on driving style and traffic conditions ) . |
| 6 | Squeezing the string works onto three generously filled discs makes good economic sense , though it is annoying to have to experience a break between the first and second movements of the Op. 67 Quartet . |
| 7 | Cutlery for the first and main courses is placed on the outside , as for formal settings . |
| 8 | The 40-year gap between the First and Second Empires had in no way diminished the ability of these people to perform their functions properly and with dignity , and it should not be thought that the Court of Napoleon III had a sort of second-hand quality about it . |
| 9 | There were no significant differences in the mean albumin concentrations between the first and second visits and the first and third visits . |
| 10 | You stood in the gutter , on the edge of the pavement , held the corner of a card between the first and second fingers of the right hand and flicked . |
| 11 | The backs of the heads of the first and second officer and engineer flashed on the video screens . |
| 12 | Many of the immigrants were supporters of the First and Second Internationals and had considerable experience in the labour movements of their native countries . |
| 13 | The S.I.B. , acting under powers conferred by the Financial Services Act 1986 , brought an action against the first and second defendants , two overseas companies , as persons who , not being authorised , carried on investment business in the United Kingdom and caused investors loss . |
| 14 | Stopped for three months under the first and second Waverley criteria . |
| 15 | thought that , … in preference to the suggestion that there might be more frequent recommendations for the exercise of the Royal Prerogative , it might be possible to introduce a system similar to that adopted in some parts of the United States under which a distinction was made between murder in the first and second degree , the death penalty being reserved for cases of the former kind . |
| 16 | Complete fluency in the first and second languages is taken as prerequisite for training ( and one would expect a working interpreter to command at least four or five languages ) . |
| 17 | Some local education authorities reorganised their primary schools on the first and middle school pattern recommended by Plowden ( eg Surrey , Isle of Wight , Suffolk ) , but the great majority continued to follow the established 5 — 7 , 7 — 11 pattern . |
| 18 | The two tasks are interrelated but in this book we separate them and look in this chapter at the first and most difficult task . |
| 19 | Metal gauges then show the woodworkers the exact profile of the neck at the first and twelfth frets . |
| 20 | Though greeted with courtesy and politeness by the First and Second Elders , the intrusion of more humans onto the Sense-Sphere is covertly opposed by the City Administrator . |
| 21 | The inquiry was ordered into the Glasgow Paddock Selling Hurdle on December 12 , 1987 after allegations of interference by the riders of the first and second horses . |
| 22 | This is because the tentacle scales of the first and second oral tentacle pores are also spinelike , resembling the oral and apical papillae . |
| 23 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 24 | He leant back in his chair and thrust the unlit pipe into his mouth , holding the stem in that strange but characteristic grip between the first and second fingers of his left hand . |
| 25 | It is nearly a quarter of a century — longer than the periods between the first and second world wars — since Labour last had the support of as many as four votes in 10 . |
| 26 | Later research showed that they were in fact storehouses and workshops , attached to hut-dwelling communities during the first and second centuries AD : quernstones were found in such a cellar at Barns of Airlie , and a chamber in a Carlungie souterrain seems to have been used for both stone and metal working . |
| 27 | This , perhaps the most tragic of all goals seen at Wembley , sent the Cup out of England for the first and last time . |
| 28 | In the case of other human beings I have the evidence of my senses for the first and last links of the series , but not for the intermediate link . |
| 29 | Should women continue to weight train in pregnancy and be allowed to engage in intense exercise during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy ? |
| 30 | This article analyses the constitutional aspects behind the formation of the first and second National Governments , examining in particular the role of the king in the formation of the two governments — a role which , as will be seen , was rather more important than is usually thought . |