Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | : It can be seen from the first of the above tables that the mean coverage given by the second level ( 8% ) is just over half that of the first level ( 14% ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Between 30 October 1984 and 9 January 1985 each of the first four plaintiffs entered into a mortgage debenture charging its assets to secure repayment of moneys advanced to it by the first defendant , which was then known as Johnson Matthey Bankers Ltd . |
| 3 | Thus , where the tenant had been innocently misled into believing that he would obtain a long term , and had invested heavily in the property next door , whereas the landlord in fact had plans for immediate redevelopment , the Court of Appeal upheld an order for a break-clause exercisable after the first three years of the term ( Amika Motors Ltd v Colebrook Holdings Ltd ( 1981 ) 259 EG 243 ) . |
| 4 | To do the line justice , it would take up the next six issues , so I intend to show you only some of the more interesting such as the First Class blank Privilege Ticket . |
| 5 | ‘ In Cup competitions we have lost only once against five teams in the top six of the First Division . |
| 6 | He 's taken them from the old Fourth to the top three in the First Division . |
| 7 | Dickens does this all with the first person narrative in the form of Pip , the narrator and main character of the story . |
| 8 | ten and a half thousand from the first of July onwards for this year . |
| 9 | Thankfully , ‘ Dirty ’ , the Sonics ' recent Geffen album , entered the UK Top Ten during the first week of release and , even if it has a long way to go to equal the sales of ‘ Nevermind ’ , things could be taking a turn for the better . |
| 10 | And Price 's win lifted him into the top ten for the first time . |
| 11 | The latest league table ( up to July 1992 ) of the value of the US installed computer base , compiled every six months by La Jolla , California-based Computer Intelligence Corp , includes a Unix machine in the top ten for the first time , among the IBM and Amdahl mainframes , AS/400s and Cray -YMPs . |
| 12 | R108 ] , with a further 156,000 in the first five months of 1992 . |
| 13 | The stairway went up ten stairs to a landing with a large window , then up another ten to the first floor . |
| 14 | To make it purposeful one of the first steps is to define carefully what children are expected to get out of this work . |
| 15 | But the 22-year-old — a lowly 12th after the first run — needed a helping hand from leader Patrice Bianchi , who fell with victory in his sights . |
| 16 | Liverpool 's defeat , which threatens to prevent them finishing in the top five for the first time since their initial season back in the First Division 30 years ago , was again due to the unpredictable goalkeeping of Grobbelaar . |
| 17 | When Henry V landed for the first time on French soil nearly forty years later , it was soon put beyond doubt that in his artillery he possessed a potential match-winner . |
| 18 | However verbally reticent he was , though , there was nothing wrong with McEnroe 's play as he overwhelmed poor Kulti , who knocked the 33-year-old superstar out of the French Open in the first round this year . |
| 19 | No direct light should be provided at this time , as the fry are light sensitive for the first week after hatching . |
| 20 | And , of course , the 80s boom in advertising made the public aware for the first time that there was big business actually producing all the advertising that people see and hear every day . |
| 21 | ENGLAND have two squash players in the world 's top seven for the first time in more than a decade . |
| 22 | By the time the Corporation 's new cars were ready for delivery , Penge depôt in Oak Grove Road was sufficiently advanced for the cars to be stored there , together with the remaining eight of the first batch . |
| 23 | By 1927–8 many of the first generation of intellectuals had already left , disillusioned by increasingly sectarian politics and rigorously disciplined organisational structures . |
| 24 | The thickness does not decrease linearly , but follows an exponential curve , with the thickness decreasing much more over the first kilometre than the second , and so on . |
| 25 | The public perceived enormous Conservative stress on defence in the Pre-Campaign Wave and again in the latter half of the campaign , but much less in the first half of the campaign . |
| 26 | Most educational institutions fulfil this need , and many view intensive language programs [ extra curricular to the first year degree courses ] as the most appropriate medium to do this . |
| 27 | But Leeds looked set fair for the First Division , climbing to second place by the end of the year . |
| 28 | They moved their stand on to 79 , the second best of the first wicket this season , before Kellett was caught behind off Jon Ayling for 37 . |
| 29 | According to one estimate , these abuses and the ravages of European diseases and starvation reduced the indigenous population of the Americas from 100 to 10 million in the first century of conquest . |
| 30 | Very few early umbrellas survive but the Museums have about three dateable to the first half of the 19th century . |