Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section B : sub-sections 2 , 3 , & 5 exclude the first £25 of each claim under each section . |
| 2 | The Labour Party claims that this represents the first stage in a policy of full market rents . |
| 3 | Then , when the first priest arrived , he wanted to live in Tala-Tala near the kirk , so this became the first hospital , and this , ’ he almost kicked the battered old trunk , ‘ became the first filing cabinet . |
| 4 | And that raises the first crucial question : in which branches of retailing do economies of scale give a real benefit to the big players ? |
| 5 | 18–7 James McDonald , a servant at Islay House , asked for baptism for his child and this brought the first case of antenuptial fornication . |
| 6 | The importance of this discovery can not be over-estimated , for through it I was led on to the further discovery of the Primary Control of the workings of all the mechanisms of the human organisms , and this marked the first important stage of my investigation . |
| 7 | The war brought , however , a number of naval victories and 1740 saw the first performance of Rule Britannia , which soon acquired the status of a second national anthem . |
| 8 | Annual gate receipts rose during the period from £1,55 to £5,309 , and 1912 saw the first four-figure profit — just over £1,000 . |
| 9 | e.g. fluvial and glacial exemplify the first of these stages , while deltas represent a second stage division of the former . |
| 10 | The housing problem had improved little since the 1890s , although a few local authorities , notably the LCC , had taken advantage of the legislation of 1890 and 1900 to build the first large council estates . |
| 11 | In a contentious paragraph , which was opposed by Tite and Wilson , the Report said that the Committee had examined Pennethorne 's scheme , as well as those awarded the first three places on the Foreign Office list , and recommended that ‘ preference should be given to the successful competitors ’ . |