Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had , especially in the hard hopeless times of the first half of the century , been fused into a homogeneous mass of the discontented and the oppressed . |
| 2 | The offence is in outline very similar to the pre-existing offence under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5A , although it adds ‘ behaviour ’ to the list of proscribed activities for the first time . |
| 3 | These steps were agreed by the government , the African National Congress ( ANC ) and 17 other political groups at the first meeting of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa ( CODESA ) in December [ see pp. 38662-63 ] . |
| 4 | The authors do not ask why the players adhered to and implemented these unnecessary checks in the first place . |
| 5 | The other part is having coherent policies in the first place . |
| 6 | Laws without strong enforcement are words without deeds , and the tragic truth is that courts in both England and the United States have displayed a general unwillingness to mete out harsh punishment to those found guilty of cruelty to animals and an even greater reluctance to render guilty verdicts in the first place . |
| 7 | I said that , as brewers never sell beer at a loss , why did not the brewers knock £30 or £40 off the price of a barrel to the tenants of their tied houses in the first place ? |
| 8 | A protocol was signed , however , preserving economic ties into the first quarter of 1992 and with the aim of guaranteeing over that period deliveries of the equivalent of 70 per cent of first quarter deliveries in 1991 . |
| 9 | Witness , for example , the wildly discrepant assessments of the effectiveness of allied air-raids in the first days of the war or the ‘ classification error ’ which led to the deaths of hundreds of civilians in Baghdad . |
| 10 | Past the school I walked through a stone gate manned by two uniformed guards into the first courtyard ( the palace has fifteen ) , which is overlooked by a high drumtower , used three times a day to summon the household for prayers . |
| 11 | Portsmouth against Swindon … 13 goal Guy Whittingham … takes on 11 goal Craig Maskell … they 're the top scorers in the first division … what a head to head … |
| 12 | It seemed obvious that the best form of organization for overseas trade was the one that was used first in exporting wool and then by the cloth traders , who still accounted for three-quarters of English exports in the first half of the century : all the merchants involved would sell together at a ‘ staple ’ town , usually in Belgium or the Netherlands , where they could avoid competing with each other and so increase their bargaining strength . |
| 13 | Although there was no official statement concerning the content of the agenda , it was widely believed that the two sides would begin detailed discussions for the first time since the negotiations began in July 1990 . |
| 14 | Liberal democracies always manifest signs of the first phase , as proletarian organizations try to overcome racial or ethnic divisions , to persuade a large majority of workers to push for radical change , and to counter the strong efforts made by capitalists and the state to maintain or accentuate existing divisions within their ranks . |
| 15 | GAVIN HASTINGS leads the British Lions into the first Test against New Zealand 's All Blacks tomorrow determined to give British sports fans something to cheer . |
| 16 | They were driving into the city now , and she looked around her , seeing it with different eyes for the first time , seeing it as a garrulous old lady with so much to tell to anyone willing to listen . |
| 17 | The tree was gleaming green with new foliage that had broken out from the charred branches of the first encounter between the English and the islanders . |
| 18 | An Indian External Affairs Ministry official said on June 18 that India had agreed to a meeting of Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries in the first half of July to discuss reducing tension on the border . |
| 19 | The Norwegian whaling fleet has already set sail to study stock sizes and to establish how many fish minke whales eat , and in May will begin commercial catches for the first time since 1987 . |
| 20 | In his discussion of The Legal Aspects of Sanitary Reform , Edward Jenkins includes an account of newly built cottages in the East End of London in the 1860s , where the contents of an adjacent cesspool were actually being used to make mortar for further dwellings , crammed into the back gardens of the first . |
| 21 | Lansink is the only rider who has jumped double clear rounds in the first four contests designated for the Everest Challenge . |
| 22 | Each member of each pair contains genes which are different from those of the other member , since the genes have been " handed on " from different parents in the first place . |
| 23 | A more fundamental question is : to what extent do we allow cultural elements of the first century to be transferred to our day ? |
| 24 | Dave Lewis , a local authority planner and then chairman of the Cornwall Anti-Nuclear Alliance , says it is still somewhat of a mystery why the CEGB chose such apparently unpromising sites in the first place . |
| 25 | The new organizations catering for this were to be economically more efficient and culturally more bland than the popular movements of the first half of the century . |
| 26 | Rather belatedly , Crick and Linsley ( 1983 ) estimated that a total of 20 ‘ health effects ’ ( cancer deaths plus hereditary effects in the first two generations ) would have resulted from the accident . |
| 27 | Foster parents can often claim fostering allowances of 2–3 times the Supplementary Benefit that the natural parent would have received for looking after the same child … which is peculiarly ironic when one considers that some children might not be in foster-care at all if their parents had adequate incomes in the first place ( Fairbairns , 1976 ) . |
| 28 | The weight percentage retained on the coarsest sieve is plotted at the appropriate grain diameter , the sum of weight percentages retained in the two coarsest sieves is plotted at the next finer mesh , the cumulative contents of the first three sieves at the next finer mesh and so on until the entire sediment has been accounted for at 100% . |
| 29 | ‘ We did a big campaign , with WHS in particular , and gave away free extracts of the first chapter in the shops . |
| 30 | We find that : ( i ) there is disutility from being unemployed , with individuals disliking unemployment even more after the first three months ; ( ii ) unemployment benefits have no effect on the behaviour of the unemployed individuals after the first three months ; ( iii ) income receipts other than unemployment benefits and earnings have only a very small effect ; ( iv ) the conditional probability of leaving the unemployment spell shows no sign of decreasing with duration for most of the members of our sample , while 50% of the teenage men have an increasing hazard ; ( v ) the effects of unemployment benefits on the expected duration varies with age ; the average elasticity of 0.12 is much smaller than those estimated by NNS and NN , who used the same data set but different models . |