Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enormous cost of the war — 10 times that of the First World War — created a large Federal government deficit , but the new-found wealth of the country was sufficient to fund it . |
| 2 | ONE SOURCE of solace to the so far disappointing New Zealand tourists , who have a last chance at Leeds tomorrow to silence the doubters prior to the first Test next Saturday , must be the rate at which Great Britain 's best players are falling by the wayside . |
| 3 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 4 | The uncertainty of the fat child or the onset of puberty which can make swimming baths one of the first circles of hell for the adolescent , so vividly evoked by Kathryn Ensall 's ‘ Girls in Line at the Swimming Baths ’ ( 1988 ) , or the terrifying prospect of the first day at school captured by Shanti Panchal are all expressions of modern sensibility and above all , of childhood and adolescent anxiety , constructed out of an acute embarrassment with themselves and their situation . |
| 5 | New nominations will be submitted by the Thursday , under the same procedure and with the same arrangements for consultation as described in paragraphs 4–9 for the first ballot , both for the original candidates if required and for any other candidates . |
| 6 | The visitors lethargic in the first half were very energetic in the second . |
| 7 | The machine , thirty feet long on the first floor of the new building had overheated . |
| 8 | Georgian federation president Nukri Kakilashvili said on Saturday the club would be contesting the allegations that officials bribed the referee and linesmen prior to the first leg game between Tbilisi and Linfield in Georgia nearly three weeks ago . |
| 9 | The data for each zone begin with the zone identifying number right-justified in columns 1–5 of the first data record for that zone . |
| 10 | And they , I do n't know what you 'll think , but they reckon they spend at least two to three days average in the first week of the new month purely doing new reports . |
| 11 | Fees for the session 1992/93 will be approximately £195 for the day classes and £171 for evening classes payable during the first few weeks of the course . |
| 12 | In the twenty years prior to the First World War there were numerous incidents of football hooliganism . |
| 13 | The German scheme of cheap overnight accommodation dated from the years prior to the First World War and had its origin in the central European tradition of ‘ wanderlust ’ . |
| 14 | Now the Big Daddy of them all … the astonishing revelation that the Georgians had attempted to bribe Turkish match officials prior to the first leg game . |
| 15 | They rejected the Georgians ' argument that the 5,000 dollars given to match officials prior to the first leg game was legitimate expenses and reinforced the judgement that Tbilisi be expelled from this season 's competition and the next one they qualify for . |
| 16 | For many weeks prior to the first of February we attempted to get a district council , a Labour council to agree that should apply in the case . |
| 17 | DEC expects to have production-quality Alpha PCs ready in the first quarter and will be sending them out to ISVs before the end-user version of Microsoft Corp Windows NT becomes available . |
| 18 | It is proposed to take the seven functions of budgets on pages 49/50 as the first dimension of a matrix structure to which either the rational economic or a political model can be applied in order to form the second dimension . |
| 19 | Unfortunately the route was chipped by persons unknown before the first ascent , but this misdemeanour has been rectified by Julian , who filled the offending holds with resin . |
| 20 | Three days into our trek we were only a few hours short of the first Zanskari hamlet . |
| 21 | In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment . |
| 22 | As with the first example , it was not certain whether the Hague Rules defences available to the first carrier were available to the second carrier . |
| 23 | Gross output per man or woman employed in production is considerable , because the value of goods passing through the various processes have to carry a return and recovery on the capital employed to make those processes possible in the first place . |
| 24 | Will Clark , the Giants first baseman who narrowly missed the 1989 batting championship with an average of .333 , drove in six runs with two homers - one a grand slam — as San Francisco routed the Cubs 11-3 in the first game of the best-of-seven National League championship series at Wrigley Field . |
| 25 | Sir : I have been reading with interest your article on Windows 3.1 in the first issue of Practical PC and I feel certain points about Windows Multimedia capabilities need clarifying . |
| 26 | He replaced seven ministers , most of whom were thought to be planning to stand as candidates in the legislative elections due in the first half of 1992 . |
| 27 | Newcastle are 12 points clear in the First Division and Keegan added : ‘ There have been massive changes here and we 're beginning to reap the rewards already . |
| 28 | HE institutions and industrial research bodies are being invited to submit proposals for partnerships involving 20 students each in the first year , and the five best schemes will be funded in 1992–93 . |
| 29 | Ticket prices are £7.50 but we have 10 pairs valid for the first day of the show ( Thursday 10 December ) to give away . |
| 30 | The wide range of novels typical of the first third of the twentieth century is perhaps unexpected and almost all the best sellers are there . |