Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is the chance to see the direction alternating for the first time . |
| 2 | The Italians keep a second striker lurking behind the first . |
| 3 | Mansell was slow to start … and Williams team mate Ricardo Patrase got a flyer sneaking into the first bend ahead of the field . |
| 4 | THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December . |
| 5 | The trick is to prevent violence occurring in the first place . |
| 6 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | I can see nothing in principle to prevent a contemnor applying to the first instance court to be released from custody on the ground that the failure to serve him with the committal order has kept him in ignorance of the contempts for which he has been imprisoned and that , in the circumstances , justice requires his release . |
| 8 | One hundred and twenty one patients with parenchymal cirrhosis presenting with the first variceal bleeding episode between June 1983 and December 1988 were studied . |
| 9 | On 15 May , in a second telegram continuing from the first [ KP 120 ] , he reported on his " brief flying visit to General Keightley at Headquarters 5th Corps at Klagenfurt " . |
| 10 | This can be done by apply the formulae of Chapter 6 or , directly , by noting that replacing x 2 + σ 2 = 7 with x 2 + σ 2 = 3 can be effected by replacing σ 2 with σ 2 + 4 , so that the equation corresponding to the first row : becomes which is equivalent to replacing the RHS with 4 . |
| 11 | The formative period from 1850 to 1914 witnessed the birth of a clearly identifiable movement , with labour organising for the first time on a massive scale . |
| 12 | The Cordillera Real Mineral Programme is an in-depth metallogenic study following on the first four years ' reconnaissance . |
| 13 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 14 | Georgia attended an NACC meeting for the first time , Albania was also admitted as a member , and Finland attended as an observer . |
| 15 | Claudia lying in her hut listening for the first sounds of life . |
| 16 | As part of its future direction , ADDS previewed a 3270/X software package for migrating 3270 users to NCR 's Open Cooperative Computing Architecture beginning in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 17 | In fact patriarchy , class , and hierarchy all presupposed a law of gender difference which was at once divinely , naturally , and socially laid down , the law descending from the first through the second to the third . |
| 18 | Squashed between the driver and the mechanic on top of the engine housing in the first truck , we found ourselves in the role of unwitting umpires , keeping the two men from each other 's throats . |
| 19 | This is hot enough for fusion to occur but so far they have been unable to confine the hot plasma long enough and at high enough densities to generate more energy from fusion than is used to keep the machine working in the first place . |
| 20 | None of that extra quality , whatever it was , which had got the business going in the first place , which had ensured John-William success in those early rough-and-ready days of colossal risks and colossal returns , when so many had failed . |
| 21 | Under contract from the Business Jets Division of Pan Am , Little Rock Airmotive in Arkansas converted a Standard Falcon into a specialised cargo aircraft , the prototype flying for the first time on 28 Mar 72 . |
| 22 | More specifically , the accident resulting from the first incident had only taken place because of a concatenation of events leading to it which could not have been foreseen . |
| 23 | For pre-industrial society , youth was a long transition period lasting from the first signs of independence of the young child to marriage . |
| 24 | To support these managers he established a marketing department , improved the financial system and introduced business planning for the first time to AEA . |
| 25 | In my view , when the truth of representations is being considered , no objection can be taken to the request relating to the first audit , nor to the second audit since the latter may well reveal material relevant to the conduct of the company 's business before acquisition and after acquisition in a way which reflects on the earlier conduct of the business . |
| 26 | Both arguments failed with the Court responding to the first by holding that the existing notification procedures were enough , there being no need for mandatory notification in all cases : |
| 27 | It starts pattern knitting at the first point cam . |
| 28 | Turquoise was also present among the grave goods of Fu Hao , consort of a Shang king , in a tomb dating from the first half of the twelfth century B.C. One of several nephrite halberd blades was hafted in a bronze mount studded with turquoise inlay . |
| 29 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 30 | Demonstrations resumed in University Square on the evening of Aug. 22 when protesters staged a six-hour occupation , chanting anti-government slogans and complaints about food shortages ( especially the reintroduction earlier that day of sugar rationing for the first time since the December 1989 revolution ) . |