Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ concluded that the submissions raised in it were not of sufficient substance to justify referring the same to the judiciary or altering the first review date . |
| 2 | And you are left in this condition during the operation , then at the end of the operation they give you a second injection that reverses the first one that paralysed you . |
| 3 | But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity . |
| 4 | ‘ Old school ’ , a term that describes the first wave of US rap originators , is now a bona fide street fashion craze . |
| 5 | All thirteen LEAs in the region served by the District were represented on the Council together with the University , the WEA , the YMCA and the Educational Settlements Association and formed the first consultative body of its kind in the country . |
| 6 | Begin with the first page of the transcript and count the first 50 utterances which fulfil the following conditions : |
| 7 | We 're holding an arm-wrestling and spinach-risotto evening at the Cock and Pullet in Poplar and we 'd very much like you to do a twenty-five minute cabaret and cut the first slice of a twelve-metre onion quiche , baked by MOLES , you know , Mothers of Optometrists Lesbians , Esperantists and Social Security Clerks . ’ |
| 8 | But when Strawberry reached under the seat and produced the first bottle of an apparently endless supply of Star Tiger rice spirit we realised it was not going to be that kind of adventure . |
| 9 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 10 | If you are honest , approaching with an open mind and saying the first thing that comes into your head , you will gradually find you are able to contribute real information and will gain confidence in your abilities . |
| 11 | At Great Bedwyn we stop for welcome break and cheer the first of the singles through . |
| 12 | His name too , with all its starkness and its distinctly masculine aura , fitted him exactly — though this man possessed none of the innocence and wonder the first Adam must have had in his Garden of Eden . |
| 13 | His foremost maxim — of never admitting defeat , of sticking to your guns through thick and thin — came to his aid and offered the first shreds of comfort since the unpleasantness of the night before . |
| 14 | GEOFF Hornby had a close shave while making the first ascent of Peak 9070 on the south side of Mount Hunter in Alaska . |
| 15 | This would not necessarily occur for the risk ratings since these may have been initially quite high because of the drivers ’ unfamiliarity with the car when giving the first ratings . |
| 16 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 17 | It was tiredness that finished the First Church . |
| 18 | This was the issue that dominated the first session of the Council , the only one Pope John knew . |
| 19 | In 1841 , when the Great North of England Railway opened up for coal traffic , it was a Kitching engine that pulled the first train . |
| 20 | Corbett made his way through the thick clogged sand and entered the first one . |
| 21 | She returned to England on the death of her Father ; she did not attend the funeral ( in a picturesque little English church ) , but did become his literary editor and published the first and most authoritative biography . |
| 22 | they would terminate the contract and refund the first instalment . |
| 23 | To illustrate the way word-processors use embedded symbols , type a paragraph of text and indent the first line with a single tab . |
| 24 | Outside facilitators worked with the committee to look at current staff development issues in the University and to take the first steps in producing a new strategy paper on Staff Development Policy for the University . |
| 25 | This is the second Point that balances the first and safeguards it from the other extreme — being too soft on doubt . |
| 26 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 27 | In this decade , Glasgow held a Grand Bazaar and the first ever exhibition of deaf art ; it also built its new deaf centre , had a flourishing soccer team and staged the first soccer international between Scotland and England . |
| 28 | Toss the first ball in your right hand towards your left one and as it peaks throw the ball in the left hand towards the right and catch the first ball in your left . |
| 29 | They emanate from a time about 300,000 years after the Big Bang and show the first signs of fluctuations in the density of matter in space . |
| 30 | Not that Andrew Orkney will dwell too much this week on leading them into the Canal Turn and over the final six flights and up the long finish and on to the post and becoming the first optician to win and riding into history . |