Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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1 | The pattern shop was a haven of relative peace and quiet , reminiscent of cottage industry , a place where carpenters fashioned the wooden shapes that contributed the first stage of the moulding process . |
2 | H. P. I 've seen inspectors go round the police huts and examine the First Aid Kit . |
3 | But it was neither safety , monopoly nor dangerous debt loads that precipitated the first major intervention in the industry by Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner last week . |
4 | Lakatos offers Marxism and Freudian psychology as programmes that satisfy the first criterion but do not satisfy the second , and modern sociology as a programme that perhaps satisfies the second but does not satisfy the first . |
5 | One of the areas that shows the first signs of body ageing is the upper arms — they can become thick and flabby and as a result shapeless . |
6 | While the company has still not announced how much vendors will have to pay in royalties on top of the $400,000 licence fee for buying the 135,000 lines of code , it did say that royalties had been reduced significantly , and the second release of the code will be free to those companies that buy the first . |
7 | The biggest Complication of mid-Cretaceous times were the circumstances that produced the first great spasm of the Alpine orogeny . |
8 | She wrote it as a series of articles and sent the first three to Richard Crossman , then editor of the New Statesman . |
9 | Later Caroline specialised in Special Needs classes and introduced the first class to help stroke victims . |
10 | From the late eighteenth century the rise of the cotton industry not only reversed the long relative decline in the importance of textile exports but pushed the first industrial nation , if not in an entirely new direction , at least up a much steeper path . |
11 | In the context of a general discussion of Nicholas I 's attitude towards non-Russians ( both inside and outside the empire ) , it is more important to note the sheer complexity of Caucasian affairs than to grade the first Viceroy 's performance . |
12 | Taking our places under the lights and feeling the first twinges of nervousness , we watched the cameras moving into position . |
13 | Chairman David Nairn thanked Grant for the open manner with which he had answered these questions and brought the first day 's business proceedings to and end . |
14 | Given that for every person who attends live opera , at least 1,000 more buy and enjoy reading poetry , will the Minister change his priorities and become the first legislator to acknowledge the unacknowledged legislators of the world ? |
15 | The drive is lined all the way by graceful lime trees and provides the first hint as to the verity of Tennyson 's description of Gunby Hall in a poem dated 1849 , where he describes it was a ‘ haunt of ancient peace ’ . |
16 | There was again strict security at the court building in Liverpool town centre but there was no repeat of the noisy scenes that accompanied the first two remands. — PA |
17 | Two months later Deborah passed the Pony Rider tests and became the first Brownie in the Pack to win the badge with the pony on it . |
18 | His ‘ Wares had left their billets and accomplished the first part of the plan , leaving some of their number behind to allay suspicions . |
19 | Like the 41-foot tree trunk under which Hippocrates , the father of medicine , was said to have made the world 's first diagnoses and issued the first prescriptions . |
20 | Childhood instincts caused the individual to turn , on those occasions when his self-confidence failed him , to animate and inanimate objects to which he ascribed comforting powers similar to those originating in his parents , and these real objects eventually gave way to the imaginary ones that became the first ‘ gods ’ . |
21 | In chapter 3 , we examine the emergence of the first handheld CD-ROM systems and preview the first palmtop CD-I player , due for launch in 1992 . |
22 | But when Mr Cheng looked at his papers and asked the first question , Hassan closed his eyes . |
23 | According to Les Echos that could not be corroborated with information from Bull , employees that choose the first option will get three months salary for agreeing to reduce their work time for two years . |
24 | Cheshire , champions in 1990 and ‘ 91 , had halved the morning foursomes and shared the first four singles when Caldy 's Bailey claimed a 4 and 3 win over Neil Graham of Newcastle United . |
25 | Stirling himself spent a lot of time in Cairo wheedling supplies and planning the first operation . |
26 | In the Holy City of Mashad , Mrs Ghodssieh Alavi , a 50-year-old doctor associated with the ‘ pragmatist ’ faction supporting Mr Rafsanjani , took the highest number of votes and became the first Iranian woman to be elected outside Teheran . |
27 | Northern coal miners observed a long Christmas break and from time to time proclaimed " gaudy days " on such occasions as hearing the first cuckoo . |