Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of missions owe their existence to the initiative and financial support given in the first place by the Association . |
| 2 | For example , one of the skills developed in the first few years of life involves the integration of data arriving through the different sensory channels . |
| 3 | What was needed was a simpler more speedy procedure and so Parliament intervened with the first Public Health Act in 1848 , the forerunner of modern public health legislation . |
| 4 | Hungary 's exports plunged in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 5 | Many of the tales and sketches included in the First and Second Series were extensively revised , and sometimes retitled , from their first periodical appearance . |
| 6 | This is still some disadvantage for the acquirer because it is more difficult to gain agreement to a change made subsequently than to a provision included in the first draft . |
| 7 | Mr Runciman said the first warning of problems came in August when it was realised that a major contract expected in the first half of the financial year was not going to materialise . |
| 8 | An unused kitchen located on the first floor of this block , provided the necessary space for a new Staff Room , Kitchenette and Toilets , with supplementary Staff Toilets , Lockers and Resources Area being located in the link to the three storey block . |
| 9 | A second legal mortgage can be created by leasing the land to the second mortgagee for a term longer by at least one day than the term limited to the first mortgagee . |
| 10 | In most cat books , the figure given for the first domestication of the cat is between 3,500 and 4,500 years ago . |
| 11 | Because of the way in which this relief is given , the managers would wish to " front load " the losses sustained into the first year of trading , which they may be able to achieve by incurring expenditure for which capital allowances are available . |
| 12 | The district general hospital ( DGH ) units carried through the first stage of devolution of services . |
| 13 | In at least two of the areas I visited the regional health authority and some of the first wave fundholders were wrangling over the savings accrued during the first year . |
| 14 | Ratings dropped during the first week of the revamped programme , but ITN now claims this trend has been reversed . |
| 15 | The elections were thus marked by a high rate of abstention : only 38.89 per cent of the electorate voted in the first round and 33.38 per cent in the second . |
| 16 | Hinde House was one of ten comprehensive schools approached in the first year with a view to the launching of a school/industry partnership . |
| 17 | Shell manufacture in Blundell Street car shed during the First World War : 200,000 shells were produced here , largely by female labour , yielding a profit to the Town of £16,000 , which was used to pay for the erection of the Cenotaph war memorial on Princess Parade . |
| 18 | The government , I , I find it somewhat disappointing that having put in what I think was an extremely good bid , I think having had that bid accepted at the first stage by government on their shortlist , having then had the bid accepted by the European Union , with the populations really that we submitted to them , we now find that U K government are actually trying trade back some of that population , and , and area coverage of the bid , to be able to use some of that spare capacity which they would generate within the U K , within the European population figure elsewhere within the country . |
| 19 | Analysis of questionnaire and sickness absence data collected from the first phase of the Whitehall II study . |
| 20 | Those schools selected for the first quality audit in mathematics or science have recently been asked to supply 12 pieces of work from across the entire year group reflecting the spread of the ability range . |
| 21 | Other than the dark-coloured car seen at the scene of the second murder , and a dark green car seen at the first , we have nothing whatsoever to go on . ’ |
| 22 | As she gathered them together , she noticed a small pamphlet stuffed inside the first carrier bag , and puzzled she pulled it out . |
| 23 | Respective values for the later serial positions were compared between the two groups to test for the recency effect produced in the first group . |
| 24 | Now is n't that an anonimous vote compared with the first one ? |
| 25 | The action belonged exclusively to the second half with two goals packed into the first 100 seconds of the period . |
| 26 | The Japanese committee 's work ensured that at launch there were 17 different discs available , including a multilingual dictionary bundled with the first players sold . |
| 27 | We do the same for the submatrix bordered by the first row and column , and so on , so that finally we reach the unit matrix as the canonical form for A. It is to be observed that , since in using elementary operations I ( i , j ) , I(k) , I(l) on A we are effectively at each stage multiplying together determinants neither of which vanishes , the reduction of A to I must be possible when A is on-singular . |
| 28 | Three of those eight variables ( excluding Pugh score ) independently influenced patient survival in the logistic regression analysis : encephalopathy , Prothrombin time and units of blood transfused within the first 72 hours ( current model ) . |
| 29 | We were never meant to fall for Satan but despite the poet 's efforts to make sure we do n't , we can not forget the magnificent figure encountered in the first two books . |
| 30 | This was a land where the pursuit of illusion possessed the artists ; where awkward tries at perspective were made , and revellers in scenes of feasting were shown sitting up on one elbow , on daybeds with legs disposed for the first time in recession . |