Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The increased likelihood of referral occurred among both male and female patients in the two groups of practices , although female patients between the ages of 5–24 and 45–74 in fundholding practices were slightly less likely to be referred in the second phase of the study than in the first ( table IV ) . |
| 2 | It was an historic statute since for the first time it provided a statutory power for the banning of marches and processions of protest and demonstration . |
| 3 | I was in less difficulty than on the first two days : I no longer pushed the ends of the shafts but gained better control from between them and was able to look around without overbalancing . |
| 4 | In conclusion , the population of England remained fairly stable for much of the fifteenth century , at a far lower level than in the first half of the fourteenth . |
| 5 | New light on an Old Master is illuminated indeed , and it 's what you will find at Canada House Gallery where for the first time , an almost forgotten body of work by Henri Matisse , relating to his fascination with the Canadian Inuit , has been mounted together with much original source material in the way of Inuit masks , photographs and books which the artist studied . |
| 6 | Will my hon. Friend commend as compulsory reading part of our proceedings in Committee when for the first time hon. Members listened for two or two and a half hours to — |
| 7 | That is , in spite of revising their reservation wages upwards , they are exiting faster in the second period than in the first period . |
| 8 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 9 | But this effect was weaker in the Second World War than in the First . |
| 10 | Generally there was much less anti-enemy hysteria in the Second World War than in the First ; but in the post-Pearl Harbor atmosphere the Japanese Americans ( the Nisei ) , mostly inhabitants of California , were rounded up and transported from their Pacific coast homes . |
| 11 | to each other than in the first two species . |
| 12 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 13 | On the assumption that they would continue to fall at the same rate as in the first half of the decade , it was estimated that the population would be only one tenth of its size in a hundred years time . |
| 14 | He was strong and his resources of stamina enabled him to play just as forcefully in the final ten minutes of a game as in the first ten . |
| 15 | Thirdy , the owner 's belief as to the first and second elements must be reasonable . |
| 16 | After listening to each pair of words decide whether the sound in question is the same or different in the second word as in the first word , and put a tick in the appropriate column , first having ticked off word no. 1 . |
| 17 | Of course , there are relatively as well as absolutely very many more poor people in the Third World than in the First World but this is not only a question of geography but also of transnational class location . |
| 18 | Yet there is a deeper , yet more exultant sense of the delights of love , of its mellifluous sensuality , in this second book than in the first ; though Scobie overstates his case when he claims it as ‘ nothing more than a joyous celebration ( of love ) richly seasoned . ’ |
| 19 | The understudy 's is a strange role , and never is he made more aware of its strangeness than on a first night . |
| 20 | Needing 361 to avoid the follow-on , England find themselves in a similar but even tougher position than in the first Test at Calcutta where they lost by eight wickets . |
| 21 | By then the product will have reverted to being a reasonable business again — but not in a glamorous way as in the first phase . |
| 22 | We are concerned with the Secretary of State 's decision as to the first period , the ‘ tariff . ’ |
| 23 | In fact as of the first of this month , the number of real vacancies was a hundred and four now today I 've received another list of er so called vacancies from the Leicestershire South area . |