Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had , especially in the hard hopeless times of the first half of the century , been fused into a homogeneous mass of the discontented and the oppressed . |
| 2 | For the purpose of the Anticipation — the advance payment of the first instalment of the subsidy on assessments of £40 — both lands and goods were treated alike , their owners being considered equally capable of paying sooner than anyone else . |
| 3 | At the beginning of that period the devastating experience of the First World War and the abolition of the monarchy had created a hiatus in the self-confidence of the bourgeoisie which necessitated the founding of the legitimacy of the state on welfare principles ( Offe , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | The innovative saloon of the First 53f5 on show at Paris |
| 5 | This cycle is shown in the left-hand part of the first chart on this page ( borrowed from Alan Budd , the chief economist of Barclays Bank ) . |
| 6 | The toss went in Oxford 's favour , Jo Michels taking Middlesex for the tactical advantage of the first bend , since Cambridge were known to have a fast start . |
| 7 | For example , I have been at a venue like the Marquee club to check out a band for a record company and have also watched 30 minutes of the first act . |
| 8 | The published part of the first report amounted to only twelve pages ( Lloyd , 1987 ) ( with an appendix of one page giving details of the number of warrants issued by the Home Office and the Scottish |
| 9 | Liberal democracies always manifest signs of the first phase , as proletarian organizations try to overcome racial or ethnic divisions , to persuade a large majority of workers to push for radical change , and to counter the strong efforts made by capitalists and the state to maintain or accentuate existing divisions within their ranks . |
| 10 | The tree was gleaming green with new foliage that had broken out from the charred branches of the first encounter between the English and the islanders . |
| 11 | The British commander , Brigadier Andrew Cumming , 45 , said : ‘ This is a great boost for morale as we enter the last few furlongs of the first Operation Grapple tour . ’ |
| 12 | The first was the Christmas truce of 1914 , when after the horrendous fighting of the first Battle of Ypres , German and British troops fraternized and played football together on Christmas Day . |
| 13 | Owen was the outstanding English poet of the First World War and I think that his poems will grow to be even more famous and appreciated . |
| 14 | I just Heard these … some indication of the first choice team . |
| 15 | The emancipation of women , the unsettling social effect of the First World War and some increase in education for the majority of the population all made for revision of opinions and attitudes , towards sex as towards other matters . |
| 16 | A random sample of 100 was taken from the 308 patients who had been referred to the local Detoxification Unit during the same 12 months of the first prevalence study period . |
| 17 | Cimetine reversed the histamine stimulated proliferation of the first two cell lines , however , at a concentration of 10 - 5 M , which corresponded to the cimetidine concentration that induced complete inhibition of histamine on cAMP accumulation in guinea pig fundus and antrum |
| 18 | In a careful review of the first few years after reorganisation , a group of academics from the London School of Economics assessed the performance of the new London local authorities ( Rhodes 1972 ) . |
| 19 | There are few survivors of the first Holocaust because the Turks tried to kill them all and because age has now claimed most of the rest . |
| 20 | Since he was bringing out something in cheap and popular form , involving new type-setting and format , it was clearly a new edition , not another issue of the first edition . |
| 21 | In his discussion of The Legal Aspects of Sanitary Reform , Edward Jenkins includes an account of newly built cottages in the East End of London in the 1860s , where the contents of an adjacent cesspool were actually being used to make mortar for further dwellings , crammed into the back gardens of the first . |
| 22 | A more fundamental question is : to what extent do we allow cultural elements of the first century to be transferred to our day ? |
| 23 | The subject 's task was to judge as quickly as possible whether the second clause was a sensible continuation of the first . |
| 24 | The new organizations catering for this were to be economically more efficient and culturally more bland than the popular movements of the first half of the century . |
| 25 | Despite Lawrence guiding Boro into the Premier League in his first season at Ayresome Park , Bassett won the award for lifting a relegation-threatened side into the top half of the First Division . |
| 26 | Not wildly entertaining , but with unintentionally wildly funny moments , this recollection of the first crossing of the Atlantic by Christopher Columbus 500 years ago , is more round the bend than round the world . |
| 27 | It should become clear that this lessening of the prevalence and importance of the latency period in modern Western societies is a social symptom of the first diagnostic importance . |
| 28 | Ironically enough , his main field experience occurred as a fortuitous consequence of the First World War . |
| 29 | Few stations of the first generation survived the vast increase of railway traffic , but some did and they are well worth seeing Railways added a vast amount of detail to the English landscape , besides manipulating it at times on a large scale . |
| 30 | It is worth emphasizing quite how serious a refusal this finery of the first Edwardians represented . |