Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew the power and the reality of the Holy Spirit in the church of his day , when he wrote in the 60s of the first century . |
| 2 | Roger Owens is one of the is the quickest in the first division so |
| 3 | Moreover , in the 1890s the British for the first time consistently encouraged headmen to report all cases . |
| 4 | Imagine if Mr Osborne were to try to sell the concept of milk , eggs or , heaven forbid , blue cheese to the British for the first time — how would you rate his chances ? |
| 5 | We need to encourage as many schools as possible to shift from the third to the second , and from the second to the first category . |
| 6 | The first comes at his baptism , the second at the first sermon he preached ( Mark 1:11 , Luke 4:18 ) . |
| 7 | We were married eventually on 29 December in St Cuthbert 's Church , Edinburgh , in the little chapel which was a memorial to the fallen of the First World War . |
| 8 | Coventry had the better of the first half , with Ndlovu and Robson demanding good saves from Seaman , while Smith had a shot blocked on the line by Winterburn . |
| 9 | They had slightly the better of the first half but a poor pass to Sleightholme lost one chance and then Sleightholme could not touch down a useful kick by Maynard , Stabler getting there first . |
| 10 | Manager Atkinson said : ‘ I thought QPR were having the better of the first half until Deano did what he 's good at — scoring a goal when there is not really anything on . |
| 11 | Middlesbrough had the better of the first half once they survived the opening quarter of an hour when Ironside , deputising for the injured Pears , kept them on terms . |
| 12 | Hull had the better of the first half struggle with Russ Wilcox their outstanding player , unlucky when his powerful header was tipped over the top . |
| 13 | The average family pays nearly £2,000 a year in interest on debts and mortgages , but last year we ran our household budgets in the black for the first time since the mid-Eighties — and managed to tuck away £10.6 billion in savings . |
| 14 | Harry Christophers directs The Sixteen in the first volume of a projected thematic grouping for Collins Classics of Tudor church pieces from the Eton Choir Book . |
| 15 | ‘ Stick players who try the Grand for the first time are surprised at how fast they adapt to it , ’ says inventor , manufacturer and player Emmett Chapman . |
| 16 | Ballymena did most of the pressing in the first period with their pack driving well in the loose and set scrums . |
| 17 | These roads not only allowed the fenlands to be exploited to the full for the first time , they also changed the way of life there , to an extent never seen before or since . |
| 18 | I I do n't think that 's a problem because we 're doing erm we 're doing two blocks of six and we 're onto the fourth of the first block now , but then the second block comes up in September and October , so it 's certainly in time for that . |
| 19 | To take a team from the Fourth to the First in six years is n't bad going whatever style of football you play . ’ |
| 20 | A question worth asking is whether it will be easier to teach competent makers in the first three categories , in which engineers are well represented , enough about the work of the fourth to understand how a company works , or to teach the fourth about the first three to the same standard . |
| 21 | The 100 ton engine and tender set a record in the 1930's as the first steam loco to clock 100 miles an hour . |
| 22 | The simplest of the first type to record , but most difficult to interpret , is the electroencephalogram ( EEG ) , in which the activity of the brain is monitored continuously through the scalp . |
| 23 | If this is a universal understanding of the grief process , how does the church assist the bereaved in the first stage of their loss , bearing in mind that many people who make little or no claim to Christian faith still look to the church to provide a fitting funeral rite ? |
| 24 | The biggest single leap in information technology , however , was the development in the 1960's of the first ‘ integrated circuits ’ ( IC 's ) in the United States . |
| 25 | Could you please give some indication as to when you 're likely to respond to the letter sent to you on the twelve of the first nineteen ninety three ? |
| 26 | Everybody talks about the five he had at the end and the last hole , but he missed less than a two-foot putt on the first in the first round . |
| 27 | There is the objection , however , whatever else is to be said , that the third statement fails to follow from the first two only because of an ambiguity — and more precisely because the consequent of the first conditional is in fact not identical with the antecedent of the second . |
| 28 | Yeah if that one , that Elizabeth Terrace one is , is the one I think it is which is the one fairly near the end in that in that bottom , bottom row I think the live in the first one , they still live in the first one on the corner . |
| 29 | The view that the Lord 's Day is essentially the Jewish Sabbath — a ‘ taboo ’ day — transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week found expression from time to time in medieval law and theology . |
| 30 | The IBM concurrent copy , sequential data striping , enhanced dynamic cache management and search assist will be available for the 7980-3 as well as the 7690 in the first quarter 1994 . |