Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | International law experts say the first reason is the strongest and the last the weakest . |
| 2 | Losses on domestic mortgage indemnity policies alone , where insurers stand the first slice of losses on the sale of repossessed houses , were cut from £257 million in 1991 to £160 million . |
| 3 | All of you in our Service teams create the first impression after the contract has been signed . |
| 4 | Warner Bros release the first picture disc album — ‘ Airconditioning ’ by Curved Air . |
| 5 | I 've always done this , and have never known a horse get chapped heels or skin infections — whereas I have known horses whose owners follow the first course get mud fever . |
| 6 | The provisions represent the first time that the Chinese Wall concept has been explicitly enshrined in statutory language in the US . |
| 7 | The topics include the first design , the sculptor 's aims , the carving of the work , the memorial 's defenders and attackers , and a final general reflection on the standing of great art and how it is likely to provoke opposition . |
| 8 | Scientists make the first plant-animal hybrid |
| 9 | These linkages constitute the first criterion of what I have labelled a ‘ successful development effect ’ ( Sklair , 1989 , ch.9 ) . |
| 10 | The releases mark the first improvement in the human rights situation in Malawi for several years . |
| 11 | Basically the full time I was in basic training and when I went to the Regimental the Royal Highl Fusiliers Regiment the first battalion , I was physically beaten and mentally tortured er into the same bargain . |
| 12 | All these examples involve the first sub-maxim of Quantity , which appears to be the important one , in which the provision of full information is enjoined . |
| 13 | This year 's Republican Party primary elections mark the first time that the controversies of the past three years over the National Endowment for the Arts , the federal agency charged with arts support , have entered the realm of American presidential politics . |
| 14 | The national curriculum proposals form the first part of the Education Reform Bill , which also contains proposals in relation to open enrolments , financial delegation to schools , the establishment of grant maintained schools and various proposals for higher education . |
| 15 | If the records make the first hypothesis unacceptable , then you must submit to the second . |
| 16 | ‘ If the records make the first hypothesis unacceptable … |
| 17 | DEC has decided to withdraw from exhibiting at the London Open Systems Show the first week in November , saying that it is worried about lack of support for the event . |
| 18 | As Plowden ( 1985 , p. 407 ) comments , ‘ few ministers know the first thing about running large organisations ’ whilst civil servants are generally not trained in financial and management skills . |
| 19 | Successful candidates — and very few students fail the first grading — are promoted to the next kyu grade . |
| 20 | A 16-bit computer has two instruction formats : Two schemes are possible for allocating bit patterns to operations : ( a ) One 4-bit pattern ( say 1111 ) in the 4 most-significant bits of an instruction word indicates the second format , while all other 4-bit patterns represent the first format . |