Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEC also announced NAS support for Sun and NAS Advantage — a higher level of conformance with DEC 's Network Application Support architecture , with SAS and Progress as the first applications to win the brand-level . |
| 2 | Jack 's full-back partner was ‘ Dusty ’ Rhodes , while behind them was the fabulous Jack Alderson and these three heroes played an amazing sequence of exactly 100 consecutive matches together ( including cup-ties and friendlies ) helping the Palace into the Football League in the process and then into the 2nd Division as the first champions of the newly formed 3rd Division in 1920–21 . |
| 3 | The exceptions were in four main areas : in the west during the first onslaughts when the khanate of Kuchum was being eliminated ; in the far north-east against the Chukchis and Karnchatkan Itelmens ( here Russian losses may not have been very severe , but the effects on the aboriginal population were catastrophic ) ; in the south-east in the struggle with the Manchus for domination of the Amur , where the Russians were beaten ; and finally in the south-west against the nomadic horsemen of the steppes who were a thorn in the Russians ' flesh for over a century . |
| 4 | As a new father I am only too aware of the importance of expert guidance through the first months of parenthood . |
| 5 | Reduction of dose is similarly used for so-called sensitive cases who are immediately over stimulated or prove the remedy during the first days , or hours , of treatment . |
| 6 | A generation of politicians is now in power whose opinions have been shaped not only by the Stalinist dictatorship but also by the defeat of the first attempts at reform . |
| 7 | Another but more legally complicated way of arriving at the same result under the subsection is to say that , when the police seek to intervene , it is likely that a belief is likely to arise in the mind of the first victims , that violence towards the police is a likely outcome of the defendant 's conduct . |
| 8 | In Huntington 's chorea , the time-point of the outbreak of the first symptoms will vary considerable . |
| 9 | The campaign for the Republican and Democratic Party presidential nominations began in earnest during February with the holding of the first caucuses and primary elections . |
| 10 | We could lead an evening or afternoon meeting on Street Children , shantytown life , organising for change , or the coming of the First Europeans and the consequences of the indigenous peoples . |
| 11 | These include physical measures of word length and overall word shape ( e.g. details of ascending and descending characters ) , the accuracy of recognition of the first letters of words , and possible feedback from syntactic analysis . |
| 12 | But could I say to the minister that she will be aware that the South Thames tech actually is the first tech to get involved in kids club network and that one of the very useful things that has happened in my constituency is the setting up the first kids after school club in in in Vauxhall . |
| 13 | A British experiment in the first years of the twentieth century with commercial secretaries , diplomats detailed for a few years to make a special study of the trade of the area in which they were stationed , had little effect . |
| 14 | The giving of often lavish presents to diplomats when they left a court to which they had been accredited , when a treaty was signed between two states or a special embassy of congratulation or condolence was sent , still a widespread practice in the first years of the nineteenth century , fairly soon became unimportant . |
| 15 | The Lancet 's sustained opposition to the first women doctors , the ‘ advance guard of the Amazonian army ’ as it dubbed them , was argued on the grounds that young ladies would be rendered indelicate , and by implication immoral , by attending lectures and dissections on human anatomy and pathology . |
| 16 | Behind him , the horses moved to a trot , and he could feel the wariness giving way to disbelief , and the disbelief to the first stirrings of a dazed expectancy . |
| 17 | I think I think it is a good idea though to erm oh right er to y'know kind of break it up a bit er particularly if at an early stage you 're intending to y'know kind of go through erm and get people to go through quite a lot of questions erm as a by way of er y'know kind of the first stages in in er developing this thing . |
| 18 | Stonehouse , also for Glasgow , was designated in 1972 , but after the building of the first houses , was aborted in 1976 : a vivid illustration of a change in priorities , for resources were to be channelled into the renewal of inner Glasgow ( the Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal — GEAR — scheme ) . |
| 19 | These papers , the fruits of extensive collaboration among most of the groups involved , provide a comprehensive description of the first steps of this critical pathway along which messages pass from the cell surface to the nucleus . |
| 20 | ‘ By the look of the first issues it will suppress itself . ’ |
| 21 | I can not give a reliable date as to when the Metropolitan police report in the case of the first matters will be available , but I have no reason to suppose that it is not being prosecuted with all celerity by the dedicated team that the Commissioner has made available . |
| 22 | So far , I have discussed the hunting economy purely as an immediate-return one , and such indeed it is in central Australia and must have been in the case of the first hunters . |
| 23 | The detailed work for the first drafts of the Information memorandum can usefully be carried out by non-MAS staff using example documentation . |
| 24 | It is exclusively a business concept although simpler versions of videoconferencing may one day enter the home as the first videophones . |
| 25 | Most Germans were in expectant but uneasy mood during the first months of 1940 . |
| 26 | He had put a Greek monogram of the first letters of the name of Christ ( CHR ) on his standards , and it had been a talisman of victory . |
| 27 | 50% ( fifty per cent ) on signature of this Agreement 25% ( twenty five per cent ) on receipt of the final version of the Program following Beta testing 25% ( twenty five per cent ) on publication of the first packages of Reading for English |
| 28 | Univel Inc was down taking pictures for its scrapbook of the first editions of UnixWare coming off the production line last week . |
| 29 | Medical opinion believed that early breast milk ( antigen-rich colostrum ) was harmful , and that feeding should be delayed until the passage of the first stools . |
| 30 | First we see , in piano , unmistakable dots over ( ex.2b ) , where the theme returns in forte : here we see the crotchets in all instruments , followed by dots over a clear strokes to indicate emphatic forcefulness. similarly gentle descending passage of the first violins . |