Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early complications were defined as those occurring during or within the first 72 hours after the procedure and were present in six patients ( 15% ) . |
| 2 | Applying Kirchhoff 's current law to the unloaded network , the phasor node-pair potentials , and are found to be related by Substituting for in the second equation in terms of and from the first yields from which the transfer function is Consequently the ratio of potential-difference amplitude between output and input is When k = 1 this is the same transmission as provided by the Wien network of figure 8.8(a) . |
| 3 | He had evoked in extreme measure and focused upon himself many irrational , but none the less real and strong , feelings of selfless devotion , sacrifice , and passionate commitment to a national ideal — emotions which had developed enormous , elemental force during and after the First World War . |
| 4 | Mabbott was also employed to supply news to the borough of Hull from 1652 to 1656 , during and after the first Anglo-Dutch war . |
| 5 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 6 | I felt myself falling , falling , as if for the first time , deeper and deeper into mysterious pits of passion and anxiety , longing and despair . |
| 7 | She admired his hands , seeing the slender curled fingers and pink palms as if for the first time . |
| 8 | And then he smiled at her as if for the first time , a smile that made her think that he had been touched by God . |
| 9 | For Lee everything was being spotlit and she was seeing the people around her as if for the first time . |
| 10 | And yet , in spite of the fatigue , he felt , good , as if for the first time in his life he had really stretched himself and grown up . |
| 11 | It is all very well expounding the theory that an artist should cultivate an innocent eye , seeing things as if for the first time . |
| 12 | In which case the non-verbal concomitants of the various utterances are improvised as if for the first time , and in the best of all possible productions an unforeseeable Lear , Macbeth or Rosalind emerges in performance , and the speeches come across expressing meanings which would have been hard to foresee from reading the bare text . |
| 13 | Then one July evening , just before the war , he suddenly noticed the roses as if for the first time . |
| 14 | Affection , melancholy , and other emotions that eluded classification , surged and slopped inside her as she noted each detail as if for the first time — or as if for the last . |
| 15 | Credit assessment — judging the profitable amount of credit to give , in what form and who to give it to — acquired new significance with the social changes that came with and after the First World War , and the even greater upheaval with the much bigger population after the Second . |
| 16 | In the case of parish , town or community councillor the declaration must be made before or at the first meeting of the council after his election , or if the council at that meeting so permits , before or at a later meeting fixed by the council . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , Roberts describes a way of life before and after the First World War which is quite fascinating and now , obviously , long past . |
| 18 | This had developed from a side-interest of the original Weetman Pearson ( Lord Cowdray ) , a civil engineer and Liberal activist before and after the First World War . |
| 19 | The Indian Civil Service and the Sudan Political Service each practised its own system of careful selection , but up to and including the First World War recruitment to the Colonial Service — or rather the assemblage of small local services which made it up — was on a highly casual basis . |