Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The increased likelihood of referral occurred among both male and female patients in the two groups of practices , although female patients between the ages of 5–24 and 45–74 in fundholding practices were slightly less likely to be referred in the second phase of the study than in the first ( table IV ) . |
| 2 | It was an historic statute since for the first time it provided a statutory power for the banning of marches and processions of protest and demonstration . |
| 3 | Once again competitive prices were highly ranked by comparatively few DGMs ( 24 per cent ) though the same proportion of respondents were experiencing problems in obtaining comparative cost data as in the first year . |
| 4 | I was in less difficulty than on the first two days : I no longer pushed the ends of the shafts but gained better control from between them and was able to look around without overbalancing . |
| 5 | However , in most cases , the private person , even if not acting in the course of a business , is still really entering into a commercial transaction and it seems more likely that there will be more cases than in the first category where it will be reasonable that he accept some liability . |
| 6 | In conclusion , the population of England remained fairly stable for much of the fifteenth century , at a far lower level than in the first half of the fourteenth . |
| 7 | New light on an Old Master is illuminated indeed , and it 's what you will find at Canada House Gallery where for the first time , an almost forgotten body of work by Henri Matisse , relating to his fascination with the Canadian Inuit , has been mounted together with much original source material in the way of Inuit masks , photographs and books which the artist studied . |
| 8 | Will my hon. Friend commend as compulsory reading part of our proceedings in Committee when for the first time hon. Members listened for two or two and a half hours to — |
| 9 | ‘ If they manage that , I just hope we can force Liverpool into making as many errors as in the first leg . ’ |
| 10 | You fold the postcard in half , cut along the lines as in the first drawing . |
| 11 | That is , in spite of revising their reservation wages upwards , they are exiting faster in the second period than in the first period . |
| 12 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 13 | Soon , though , lava began to flow freely from the fissure , quite quietly and in much greater volumes than in the first phase . |
| 14 | But this effect was weaker in the Second World War than in the First . |
| 15 | Generally there was much less anti-enemy hysteria in the Second World War than in the First ; but in the post-Pearl Harbor atmosphere the Japanese Americans ( the Nisei ) , mostly inhabitants of California , were rounded up and transported from their Pacific coast homes . |
| 16 | to each other than in the first two species . |
| 17 | Children are likely to be brought into contact with , and dependence on , a large number of ‘ step ’ relatives because of the first mechanism . |
| 18 | Repeat the checking for other holes as for the first strip |
| 19 | The European balance of power was thus after the Seven Years War a more subtle problem in many ways than in the first half of the century . |
| 20 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 21 | On the assumption that they would continue to fall at the same rate as in the first half of the decade , it was estimated that the population would be only one tenth of its size in a hundred years time . |
| 22 | He was strong and his resources of stamina enabled him to play just as forcefully in the final ten minutes of a game as in the first ten . |
| 23 | Certainly we employ thirteen thousand , seven hundred and ninety-one staff as at the first of October . |
| 24 | Thirdy , the owner 's belief as to the first and second elements must be reasonable . |
| 25 | After listening to each pair of words decide whether the sound in question is the same or different in the second word as in the first word , and put a tick in the appropriate column , first having ticked off word no. 1 . |
| 26 | Although there were nearly four times as many conscientious objectors as during the First World War , there was no organization remotely like the NCF . |
| 27 | The specifically German element comes to the fore , however , in Lutheran hymn-settings as in the first part of Normiger 's book and the ‘ Celler Tabulatur ’ of 1601 . |
| 28 | Of course , there are relatively as well as absolutely very many more poor people in the Third World than in the First World but this is not only a question of geography but also of transnational class location . |
| 29 | Yet there is a deeper , yet more exultant sense of the delights of love , of its mellifluous sensuality , in this second book than in the first ; though Scobie overstates his case when he claims it as ‘ nothing more than a joyous celebration ( of love ) richly seasoned . ’ |
| 30 | The understudy 's is a strange role , and never is he made more aware of its strangeness than on a first night . |