Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience . |
| 2 | With this in mind , Botham chose to field first , only for Greenidge and Haynes to put on 168 for the first wicket . |
| 3 | Referring to Western society Gerth and Mills state that life chances include ‘ Everything from the chance to stay alive during the first year after birth to the chance to view fine arts , the chance to remain healthy and grow tall , and if sick to get well again quickly , the chance to avoid becoming a juvenile delinquent and very crucially , the chance to complete an intermediary or higher educational grade ’ . |
| 4 | This alternative process made it possible for the first time to obtain 1- tert -alkyl , 1-cycloalkyl , 1-aryl , 1-heteroaryl and 1-aminoquinolone and azaquinolonecarboxylic acid derivatives by combined acylation and arylation ( aracylation ) of enamines and enhydrazines with o -halo-(het)aroyl halides . |
| 5 | The fourth attribute demanded by George Corner , that of understanding , is possible for the first time in the history of civilization ; but it is a possibility which so far is available to only a small minority of specialists . |
| 6 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 7 | The course of events after 1931 clearly revealed the inadequacy of pure aspiration as the basis for a science of international politics , and made it possible for the first time to embark on serious critical and analytical thought about international problems . |
| 8 | With the advent of the new technology of lasers and holography it was possible for the first time in history to build the ancient consciousness-raising symbols out of pure light . |
| 9 | The first is the launch by Corin of a revolutionary universal hip that enables surgeons to tailor hip replacements to the patient , whilst the second is the advance by AEA of a technique for measuring bone density that has made early detection of bone wastage possible for the first time . |
| 10 | Sufficient data stretching back to the mid-sixteenth century have now been assembled to make it possible for the first time to study short-term as well as long-term characteristics of demographic behaviour at the micro level . |
| 11 | The key point was that the bases paired , making it possible for the first time to seem how a chemical entity might be able to store and copy information . |
| 12 | Although amendments to the published general SVQ specifications will not be possible during the first year , we will be consulting on whether the specifications should be added to for the second year . |
| 13 | Sheep entries set a new record , and topped 500 for the first time . |
| 14 | The loads on the structure are lower during the first half of the launch and it is not unusual to exceed the placard speed for a few seconds during the initial steepening of the climb . |
| 15 | And I was very upset for the first day , then I started settling down . |
| 16 | I 'm due off the first tee at ten past twelve . |
| 17 | When Europeans saw the animal alive for the first time , they christened it the mountain goat because of its unusual agility on narrow , icy ledges . |
| 18 | That about the first weekend . |
| 19 | That figure multiplied by eight for the first period gave a total of two hundred and sixty eight thousand two hundred and twenty four pounds . |
| 20 | ‘ But you 've taken me so deep I feel as though I 'm complete for the first time . |
| 21 | If we represent these facts in mathematical form we would say that for the first state ( let us denote it by |
| 22 | The point is , that for the first time in decades , the environmentalists have a powerful voice — and a Government which claims to listen . |
| 23 | It was that for the first time something illogical had crept into her world . |
| 24 | The significance was not that a testator 's intentions were allowed to play more freely , but that for the first time the law was dealing with an open rather than a closed system , a system that offered unlimited possibilities for expansion . |
| 25 | I do n't know whether it affects anyone else but what happened to me was that for the first time in my adult life I began to feel part of a community . |
| 26 | What was new in Althusser was that for the first time this epistemological tradition was developed for a Marxism . |
| 27 | It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ … |
| 28 | They believe it will mean that for the first time in El Salvador 's history , there will be genuine political freedom . |
| 29 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 30 | Only out on the water with Pedro panting in the prow had she dared to admit that for the first time in her life she had felt herself a prisoner at the Hall . |