Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that for widows the first recommendation of 1871 was generally observed , some Boards of Guardians going further and insisting that the widow maintain two children by herself before any relief was given , while others refused relief to healthy able-bodied widows no matter how many children they had . |
| 2 | Couple 's joy : Alison Kitchen , 28 , and her husband David , 31 , who live in Hartlepool , are celebrating the birth of triplets the first test tube babies to be born at the town 's general hospital . |
| 3 | In a proportion of cases the first site of infection is the cervix , when there may not be any local pain . |
| 4 | In the language of polymers the first moment the mean is denoted by where is the number of molecules of molecular weight . |
| 5 | She put into words the first question of many that instantly sprang into her head . |
| 6 | Whenever aircraft returned from raids the first persons to be allowed on board were the squadron armourers , whose job it was to make the bombs safe before anything else could be done , and this could be a highly tricky and dangerous undertaking , especially where incendiary bombs or those with time delay devices were concerned . |
| 7 | This system was already elaborated in pre-war policy documents and substantially accepted by policy-makers The first years of war extended the pre-war system as constraints on expenditure were removed . |