Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had to me something of the effect that arises from the turning up of the fresh soil , or of the first welcome breath of Spring . |
| 2 | Early complications were defined as those occurring during or within the first 72 hours after the procedure and were present in six patients ( 15% ) . |
| 3 | Except for the first two days , the decaying component is well fitted by an exponential with 18-day time constant , but we now see that the glitch also leaves a nondecaying increase in rotation rate . |
| 4 | The Gongsters are complete for the 3 years 48–51 except for the first two issues . |
| 5 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 6 | The best cleavage is found at the central GpC ; all the ApT sites are cut at about 25% of this rate , except for the first ApT on the 5'-side which shows no detectable cleavage . |
| 7 | Applying sections 1 and 2 to the facts of this appeal , the position is that for the first six months ( the period of the original letting ) the tenant was a protected tenant . |
| 8 | It had been a shock to discover that for the first five years they went to homes in the country where women were paid to nurse them , and it seemed to put a stop to any hope of seeing Angel again . |
| 9 | He proved and illustrated from Bede that for the first hundred and forty years after its foundation as an archbishopric , Canterbury had held primatial authority over the whole country ; then he went on to prove , though more sketchily , that this state of affairs had lasted without intermission until the Norman Conquest . |
| 10 | Although the night-time itching has been put down to the nocturnal habits of the mite , it is interesting that for the first few weeks of infestation , when the mites are presumably just as active , there are often no symptoms at all . |
| 11 | Gd-DTPA is also of value in assessing tumour recurrence after surgery , with the rider that for the first few postoperative months the hypervascular scar tissue does not have a blood/brain barrier and hence enhancement at this stage does not necessarily indicate that residual tumour is present . |
| 12 | The experiment with actinomycin suggests that for the first 3 hours or so LTP does not depend on gene transcription . |
| 13 | The chances are that during the first eight or nine years you may appear to be treading water in the process of proving yourself . |
| 14 | Royal watchers said that during the first official engagement of the day the royal couple appeared to be in fairly good spirits , although they were not seen to talk to each other or exchange glances . |
| 15 | Latest figures show that during the first two months of this year more than 14,000 took up the Company 's invitation to find out more about nuclear power by visiting Sellafield . |
| 16 | Mr MacGregor will be told that during the first 12 of the 13 four-week periods of the 1992-93 financial year — which ends in a fortnight — fare income was up 9 per cent on the equivalent periods a year earlier . |
| 17 | The Minister will recall that during the first Tory recession , Ministers claimed that making many people redundant was a price worth paying to make British industry leaner and fitter . |
| 18 | The evidence for this stage , Morgan and Engels believed , was stronger than for the first two stages . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | ( So crucial was the bike in everyday life that throughout the first two years of the Club 's existence the Committee discussed the erection of a permanent bike shed more than any other matter ) . |
| 21 | That inexperience was to prove disastrous , although in the first two financial years there was a £12.5m profit . |
| 22 | ‘ I found that within the first two years I more than trebled my external income simply because I was entertaining at a large conference-style table in a nicely furnished area . |
| 23 | Indeed , it is rather illuminating to discover that within the first few pages of her book — and before she has even introduced her own work — she peremptorily dismisses the idea that genius is akin to madness . |
| 24 | This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall . |
| 25 | It was further reported ( Danas , 10 November 1987 ) that in the first nine months of 1987 there were 17 rapes in Kosovo , every one of which was between two members of the same ethnic group , and that in this period the incidence of rape in Kosovo was lower than in other parts of Yugoslavia . |
| 26 | The official New China News agency ( Xinhua ) reported that in the first nine months of the year 11,503 people had been arrested for such crimes . |
| 27 | Walberg , Hose and Raster ( 1978 ) showed the significant relationship between LOR and proficiency in English with Japanese children in the USA , but also point out that the rate of learning slows down very quickly over time , so that in the first two months the child learns as much as he will in the next five months , the next year and so on . |
| 28 | In The Form he comments that in the first two degrees it is possible to say " I languysch for lufe " or " Me langes in lufe " ( 106.53 – 4 ) but in the third degree all is comfort and joy . |
| 29 | These satellites and more recent balloon and rocket flights show that in the first six years of the 1970s the Sun 's radiation had increased by 0.2 per cent . |
| 30 | Indeed , City analysts reckon that in the first six months of 1992 listed companies ' dividends only increased by 2% as companies tried to improve their balance sheets and build up dividend cover . |