Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Losses on domestic mortgage indemnity policies alone , where insurers stand the first slice of losses on the sale of repossessed houses , were cut from £257 million in 1991 to £160 million . |
| 2 | In England too , industrialization meant that peasants became the first working class and were alienated from the earth and its fruits . |
| 3 | Liverpool SC and Renegades shared the first leg spoils at 6–6 , and it was all square again in the second leg , which means it now goes to a three frame play-off at a date to be decided by the committee . |
| 4 | Nakabayashi and coworkers reported the first system based on methyl methacrylate , with tributyl borane as initiator and 4-META as bonding comonomer . |
| 5 | At the February meeting Chris Mattson came along to present his superb talk and slides illustrating the First World War . |
| 6 | Their senior branch of railway promoters and philanthropists produced the first Quaker MP Joseph Pease as well as marrying back into the Gurneys . |
| 7 | TV MAGICIAN Wayne Dobson has had to buy the family Christmas presents all over again — because thieves made the first lot vanish . |
| 8 | Tass confirmed on Sept. 18 , 1989 , that two Japanese journalists had been selected , in line with a $12,000,000 agreement made in March 1989 with the Tokyo TBS television network , as candidates to give the first space broadcast from Mir at an unspecified date in 1991 , despite earlier protests from Soviet journalists that the decision was unpatriotic . |