Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies in future will be able to write off against taxes only the first $1 million of what they pay any director or executive . |
| 2 | We have n't got to the reselling stage with these yet because we 've been going about six months so the first resale is eighteen months away . |
| 3 | And they gave thanks when the first buds appeared in spring . |
| 4 | Eight days later the first Duke of Wellington was calling on her with reports of a coming clash : the king 's desired divorce from Queen Caroline . |
| 5 | A link-up with the western end from Kalgoorlie was finally made on October 17 , 1917 and five days later the first passenger train completed the historic crossing . |
| 6 | Ed. note : Two weeks later the first commode was delivered to Maria Frantzia . |
| 7 | Two years later the first monuments were taken into care , and many more followed . |
| 8 | The field was discovered in 1974 and 10 years later the first gas flowed ashore . |
| 9 | 4 weeks ago the first trident nuclear submarine rolled out from the Barrow shipyard with hardly a headline and still less protest . |
| 10 | ‘ Several weeks ago the first hint was given . |
| 11 | Seven years ago the first Hôtel Formule 1 opened in France . |
| 12 | Nearly a thousand years ago the first settlers made the Glemmtal valley their home , and ever since they 've made a point of extending a warm welcome to all-comers . |
| 13 | It ended in a stormy divorce after three years when the first Mrs Smith walked out , leaving the then 4-year-old Andrew locked in a wardrobe . |
| 14 | It ended in a stormy divorce after three years when the first Mrs Smith walked out leaving the then 4-year-old Andrew locked in a wardrobe . |
| 15 | Five minutes later the first team was back . |
| 16 | If you have two males then the first sign will probably be the continuous conflict . |
| 17 | If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 . |
| 18 | Judge then my feelings when the first face I was to see at Jo'burg airport was the self-same Second Secretary , delighted that he had again been honoured with an important secret mission . |
| 19 | The second round , to take place by late July , would decide the issue in those constituencies where the first round failed to give any candidate at least 50 per cent of the vote . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , even if it is insisted that some degree of regularity is normally required , there are situations where the first transaction entered into by a supplier can be treated as being made in the course of business , for example , one-off adventures integral to a business activity . |
| 21 | He ca n't have been so crap otherwise he would n't have been picked in such a brilliant side but the mistakes I 've seen were just appalling , and in the most important games e.g. the first Chelsea 70 Cup Final game when the ball went right under his body . |
| 22 | Instances where the first air is not in the principal key are frequent in Bononcini and Scarlatti but are infrequent in cantatas composed by Frenchmen . |
| 23 | Although Miller stated that he had collected most of the information from well-known authors and always acknowledged them , there are instances when the first person indicated his own contributions . |
| 24 | Along intermediate axes where the first layer interatomic spacings are longer , incident trajectories can make more direct collisions , resulting in off-specular scattering . |
| 25 | A combative mood at the congress had been set at the very opening of proceedings when the first speaker in the debate on the agenda , Vladimir Bludov from Magadan in the Far East , had called for the entire politburo to resign . |
| 26 | This decision was subsequently approved by the Court of Appeal , but limited to cases where the assets comprised in both charges are the same , and it appears that a general floating charge on the whole of the undertaking may be postponed to a subsequent floating charge on a particular class of assets where the first charge contemplates the creation of the later charge . |
| 27 | Moments later the first boat arrived . |
| 28 | Former Olympian and Commonwealth Games champion Mike Bull will join other guest runners when the first party calls in to meet the Lord Mayor , Reg Empey , en route to the first stop at Daisy Hill Hospital in Newry . |
| 29 | You should enter the name of each of your students when the first test is received and maintain an ongoing record of the following information in respect of each test : — |
| 30 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |