Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the first ministrations the Swedes discreetly left him to his agonies . |
| 2 | Throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries the myth of a decline from former prosperity tended to conceal these limits and it was not until the 1890's that a first and very approximate calculation of her agricultural potential radically reversed the notion of a nation richly endowed by nature . |
| 3 | For one of the first things the maltster looked for was just this : uniformity of seed in the samples that the farmer showed to him . |
| 4 | One of the first things the children notice about the stone is his odd logic . |
| 5 | Naturally , one of the first things the Fields did on arrival at Lartington Hall was to start their own pack of hounds . |
| 6 | It says that it is the counsel of the witan determined upon as soon as Cnut and his witan established peace and friendship between Danes and English , and that one of the first things the witan decided was that they would zealously observe Edgar 's law and " investigate further at leisure what was necessary for the nation , as best they could " . |
| 7 | Above all , IR spectrometers are almost universally available , and so IR spectroscopy is one of the first techniques the inorganic chemist will call upon when studying a new sample . |
| 8 | But not many of the seventh years the year I am |
| 9 | By about 1860 , the cloth trade in Painswick was all but extinct , one of the last survivors the concern of E.P . |
| 10 | In the first months the Provincial Juntas acted as independent sovereign states . |
| 11 | It was certainly the case that in the first centuries the example of Jesus must have been a tremendous model for living and for dying . |
| 12 | Similarly in the next lines the sun is fading but has not yet disappeared . |
| 13 | Over the next months the wild females produced babies on a 25–28 day cycle . |