Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 2 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
| 3 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 4 | Scepticism arose with the first television interviews . |
| 5 | Two years of basic research led to a first description of Mamprusi court ritual and the system of succession . |
| 6 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 7 | As he had argued in Totem and Taboo , murder occurred in the first human groups , and the prohibition on killing came from the father . |
| 8 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |
| 9 | Critics of this theoretical approach emphasise that spectator violence existed before the First World War . |
| 10 | When something in that costly box of tricks above the pool side malfunctioned on the first night at the Grove , they had no option but to call on a back-up team of stopwatch timekeepers . |
| 11 | This penal optimism reigned throughout the first half of this century ( Bailey , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | Is it possible to tell us how your advertising revenue performed in the first half on your Westminster Press and F T and whether you 've experienced any improvements in sits vac advertising since the end of the first half ? |
| 13 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 14 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
| 15 | John 's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness . |
| 16 | The Admiralty had from the first a ‘ prize ’ jurisdiction , i.e. a jurisdiction to determine all questions as to the ownership of ships and goods captured at sea by a belligerent . |
| 17 | The land was sold to the second to fourth defendants on 21 July 1988 , and by order dated 16 December 1988 they were added as defendants and the action stayed against the first defendants . |
| 18 | His rise to prominence came during the first Dutch war ( 1652–4 ) . |
| 19 | One of the liveliest days of the campaign came during the first week . |
| 20 | British sport began for the first time to embrace commercialism , although the process was cautious and gradual . |
| 21 | erm The second half started as the first half finished , with a again a very erm entertaining game erm in the fiftieth minute , on a break , Almondsbury 's Alex Stocker was nearest to scoring for them when he floated a long ball forward which Mark Sibble was very glad to tip over the bar . |
| 22 | A separation appeared for the first time between design and production . |
| 23 | Sun said in the first half it shipped 28,000 Sparcstation 10s including 1,500 Model 41s . |
| 24 | The Chancellor said in the first nine months of 1992–93 the Employment Service found jobs for 31,000 unemployed disabled people , 25 per cent more than in the same period of 1991–92 . |
| 25 | For Hegedus one of the greatest distortions of Marxism was the ideology of centralized and hierarchical state management propounded during the first period of socialist development . |
| 26 | The thaw in US-Soviet relations and the unwillingness of both super-powers to prolong the war led to the first publicly acknowledged round of talks between Najibullah and sections of the mujaheddin alliance in November [ see p. 37855 ] . |
| 27 | A flight of granite steps to his right led to the first floor of one of the buildings and an arrow carried the word , ‘ Office ’ . |
| 28 | All this suspicion arose from the first nylon yarn that appeared on the market . |
| 29 | The announcement came on the first day of a planned four-day general strike called by the Confederation of Trade Unions ( CTU ) to protest at the country 's perilous economic situation [ see p. 38836 ] . |
| 30 | The first group consisted of the first 15 consecurive patients and 11 consecutive volunteers who were asked not to swallow any saliva ( they were asked to spit it out ) . |