Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hotman 's case is particularly interesting in that where in the first version the word populus was used , in the 1576 edition the term ordines , meaning orders or estates , was inserted to " clarify " the meaning , or , we might suspect , to reassure those alarmed by the dangerously democratic sound of the first version . |
| 2 | Language work in the final year is more specialized than in the first two years and includes translation and précis writing in administrative , technical and commercial registers of the languages , as well as some interpreting . |
| 3 | With the second set of options ( long repayment period = low APR ) , the average repayment period chosen was if anything shorter than with the first ( short repayment period = low APR ) . |
| 4 | His appeal to the Supreme Court that the Smith Act was unconstitutional because of the First Amendment was rejected . |
| 5 | When seen in hospital she was far less depressed than on the first occasion and did not feel she needed further help . |
| 6 | In the first three months of 1990 , the guess is that they were again about 13% lower than in the first quarter of 1989 , but there are now hopes that it was the last drop for a while . |
| 7 | SSP is not payable if on the first day of the PIW your employee : |
| 8 | Very large crowds attended on the Friday , although not as vast as on the first day . |
| 9 | In the second phase assets affected were worth 25,000 million forints ( as at March 23 , 1992 , US$1.00=89.5858 forints ; there had been 1.9 per cent devaluation on March 16 ) , three times as much as in the first phase . |
| 10 | So where there is a virtual absence of such evaluations , such as amongst the first generation Caribbeans , there is also no direct influence from the family to children . |
| 11 | Since labour supply did not increase to meet this demand , the growth of civilian employment was only marginally higher in the late sixties and early seventies than in the first half of the sixties ( table 11.2 ) . |
| 12 | The entrance to the " opportunity garden " is less obvious than in the first drawing . |
| 13 | His voice had deepened , the words becoming more guttural as for the first time since she 'd met him he seemed to struggle with a language which was not his own . |
| 14 | The situation was slightly better than in the first half of the 1980s , when more power stations were cancelled than entered service , but those under construction all dated from orders placed at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 15 | I was n't sure until after the first preview . |
| 16 | Eventually , during my evolutionary wanderings through Biomorph Land — the sense of triumph was scarcely less than on the first occasion — I finally cornered them again . |
| 17 | But we need to get our moral thinking clear on this matter all the more because in the first stages of unbridled conflict both sides seem to be suggesting that there really was no moral problem at all because the principle that they were obsessed with was the only one that mattered . |
| 18 | Lucy listened to the repeated message with her heart in her mouth , and , hearing it again , the voice sounded even more arrogant than during the first recording . |
| 19 | The vistas on this route are no less impressive than on the first one . |
| 20 | ‘ The overall results are slightly worse than for the first three months of 1992 , with definite signs of the recessionary effect becoming widespread nationally , ’ said Manpower spokeswoman Lilian Bennett . |
| 21 | All the intercepts are significantly greater than zero except for the first sub-period when it is significantly lower than zero . |
| 22 | Grain prices in the last five years of Elizabeth 's reign were 75 per cent higher than in the first five years ; but wages and industrial prices had risen much less steeply . |
| 23 | So far this year the value of sales has been 5 per cent higher than in the first ten months of 1990 . |
| 24 | higher than in the first half of 1990 . |
| 25 | Parrott is lively too , but the performances are gentler , and his often slower speeds-as in the first chorus of the Birthday Ode with its call to ‘ Celebrate this triumphant day'-bring out the dancing rhythms less infectiously . |
| 26 | The Gongsters are complete for the 3 years 48–51 except for the first two issues . |
| 27 | The evidence for this stage , Morgan and Engels believed , was stronger than for the first two stages . |
| 28 | Where sexual contact takes place in aggravating circumstances ( which are the same as for a first degree offence ) , criminal sexual conduct in the second degree is committed . |
| 29 | The voting procedure for the second ballot will be the same as for the first save that paragraph 14 shall not apply . |
| 30 | The overall order of main classes in the second edition remains essentially the same as in the first edition . |