Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firebox and boiler of No. 3822 were equally packed out too , as WSR Driver Dave Williams and Fireman Gareth Winter had the engine just right for the first four-mile assault on Crowcombe Bank . |
| 2 | You should make sure that you are adequately covered from the start , because the likelihood of a dog running away from home is probably greatest during the first few months of ownership . |
| 3 | Sabrina opened the top file and leafed through the first few invoices . |
| 4 | Many course combinations are possible during the first three years , facilitating transfer between these three streams . |
| 5 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 6 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 7 | More than 680 homes were sold in January , rising to 750 for the first three weeks of this month . |
| 8 | I do n't know whether enjoyed it as he was sound asleep for the first 8 miles , but he certainly was n't complaining either — a merciful relief ! |
| 9 | Quote of the Buxton Conference came from American Paul Piana , whose audio-visual about the first free ascent of the Salathe Wall on El Cap proved to be a masterpiece of comedy . |
| 10 | Sonorous For the first three months that Presentations 2.0 is on sale , it will come bundled with a SoundBlaster Pro sound card . |
| 11 | The fourth key point was that for the first two years of the programme , between April 1989 and March 1991 , we committed a budget of £24 million to the programme . |
| 12 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 13 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 14 | New residents are at their most receptive during the first six months . |
| 15 | For those prisoners who co-operate , the regime is semi-open after the first third of their sentence . |
| 16 | The Americans countered by accepting this for the first ten years , but adding an extra M per cent interest , bringing the annual figure to £40 million for the remaining fifty-two years . |
| 17 | The eggs were clear for the first two or three days , after which the developing fish were clearly visible inside . |
| 18 | So it 's now we 've got seven people , it 's gon na make it a lot easier for the first twenty containers which is forty containers in actual fact is n't it . |
| 19 | That figure is remarkable when compared to just 87,000 during the first six months of last year . |
| 20 | France , Germany and several other members , stressing its ( more active ) peacemaking potential , saw this as the first major concrete step towards developing the WEU as the " defence component of the European union " as outlined in the Maastricht treaty [ see p. 38658 ] . |
| 21 | The fact that I had not done so put me too high for the first available field , but with insufficient height for the next one . |
| 22 | I watched him jog off , the head held high for the first twenty yards , to promote oxygenation , then tucked in low as he measured out the rhythm of his pace . |
| 23 | The University Card can be used exactly like any other credit card , in particular the card is currently free for the first six months . |
| 24 | The incorporation catalysed by Dcm ( open circles ) was linear for the first 25 min of the reaction . |
| 25 | The fact that O'Keeffe was so well-known in her time makes it even more astonishing that we have had to wait until 1993 for the first major European show of her work . |
| 26 | Mortality was particularly high during the first six years . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | The 22-year-old Edgar was clear of the first three horses she rode in a World Championship final style event . |
| 29 | As half of the first full-time two man drug squad in the North-East of England , I was tasked with defining and dealing with the new social aberration of ‘ flower power ’ , ‘ the counter culture ’ , and the ‘ psychedelic trip ’ . |
| 30 | Bull has already revealed details of its Integrated Systems Management effort , based around the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Management Environment , and is now working on some of the first practical applications to run on top . |