Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] by the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , of course , Dorothy knows in those particular circumstances it was not a risk — the mental parameters fixed by the first half of the lesson controlled the freedom of the second half — and any individual child who could not cope could turn it into a ‘ reporting to the boss at the manhole ’ game . |
| 2 | Today the planes are flying home … their pilots shaken by the first accident at Fairford in 23 years . |
| 3 | formula , and substituting for Nl the total of unique ( initials/date of birth/sex ) identity codes generated by the first prevalence study for each of the four townships , for N2 the 15 individuals nominated for each township during the snowball sampling ( that is , excluding the zero stage ) , and for X the number of identity codes occurring in both samples , we arrive at a total user population of 814 for these townships during the prevalence period . |
| 4 | Even Art finds himself overcome at times by incredulity or revulsion , especially in the section of this second volume , where he confronts problems posed by the first 's inordinate success in 1986 . |
| 5 | Judging by the many Figures covered by the first letter of the alphabet — fifty-eight at the beginning — it can be appreciated that Miller had been justly advised ; such expansion throughout the work would have priced it far outside the purse of the ‘ generality ’ if , indeed , it could have been completed in his lifetime . |
| 6 | The list of transitions produced by the first program is sorted ( numerically , by the first node number ) , and the node numbers are converted into edge numbers , by a simple nawk ( Aho et al , 1988 ) program . |
| 7 | Thus , for each of the four townships , it should be possible to compare the users identified by the first prevalence study with the users generated by the snowball sample in the same township to produce the required ratio of hidden to known use . |
| 8 | It would appear that there was some increase in the marriage rates among those in their early twenties during the early 1920s , perhaps because of the delays caused by the First World War , and after 1934 , when the domestic economy began to revive from the worst excesses of the slump . |
| 9 | Wind power advocates have expressed concern that its potential has been neglected in the initial list of renewable energy projects covered by the first Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation . |
| 10 | When implemented this will complete the initiatives introduced by the first General Directive . |
| 11 | The pickup coil signals connect to analogue switches controlled by the first ( and higher frequency ) bistable in the driving divider chain , in order to isolate only those signals which coincide with the saturation waveform transitions . |
| 12 | The dichotomous partitions of categories enumerated by the first authors are : |