Example sentences of "[adv] that the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THEN you let go of the latch so that the first loop slides over and is cast off . |
| 2 | These orders may vary slightly from teacher to teacher , so that the first order , for example , might be think of not stiffening the neck … . |
| 3 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 4 | You need to stop so that the first square at the left is number 46 . |
| 5 | The book had been written in haste , he charmingly tells us in the Preface , so that the first part was already at the printers before the second part was written . |
| 6 | She let off a salvo of three guns , spaced so that the first ball fell well in front of the Genoese ship . |
| 7 | So that the first question for the Formalist ‘ is not how to study literature , but what the subject matter of literary study actually is ’ ( p. 102 , my italics ) . |
| 8 | Now you could have two buses doing that and forming fifteen minute service because one bus went out in thirty minutes another one fifteen minutes behind it , that came back so that the first bus was able to do the third one . |
| 9 | Multiple passes through the camera increase the difficulty of exact placing and synchronization , which is why two or four projectors are often preferable While the projectors can be used in line , with the light of one lamp passing through two or more strips of developed and printed film , so that the first image goes through the second before hitting the unexposed film , the use of four rather than two projectors generally requires the use of a prism to bring the beam of light to the camera lens . |
| 10 | You got so that the first thing you did every day was to go into the kitchen and say good morning to it . |
| 11 | To help out , the second player holds up the mirror so that the first player can see his reflection . |
| 12 | Because of injuries and unavailability , Chelmsford were often stretched to field three teams this season so much so that the first team was left short of substitutes . |
| 13 | For example , the Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui has written that the reason why the Swahili word for a newspaper is gazeti is merely that the first papers that East Africans came into contact with were government gazettes . |
| 14 | It 's just that the first time it happens , especially if you are used to the more genteel reduction in power and revs of a Lycoming or a Continental when you throttle back , it does n't half make the old adrenalin start flowing . |
| 15 | It emerged much later that the first casualties had been on Thursday night — Konserven , one at Gleiwitz , six at Hohnlinden — who had been dressed as Polish soldiers and shot . |
| 16 | Now that the first shock was wearing off , he was beginning to feel annoyed , angered by the position he had been put in . |
| 17 | Young and healthy and spirited , now that the first shock had passed and the inhibiting stiffness was on the mend , after eating her lunch Luce would have got up if Michele , alerted by Rosa , had n't appeared and put his foot down . |
| 18 | Now that the first batch of boat people has successfully been dispatched , the government intends to move swiftly to step up the deportations . |
| 19 | It was only the year before that the first aeroplane had flown the English Channel . |
| 20 | CAN it really be 10 years ago that the first ship — M.V. Arriaga — was loaded with 2,600 tonnes of barley by . |
| 21 | No surprise then that the first number is ‘ Viva Boys Wonder ’ . |
| 22 | No surprise then that the first number is ‘ Viva Boys Wonder ’ . |
| 23 | And yet Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi argue pretty persuasively that the first invasion was more reasonable than it seemed , and that the second was caused by the first . |
| 24 | It is not surprising therefore that the first video materials that came with video into the classroom were materials which had been made originally as films or broadcast television programmes . |
| 25 | It would appear therefore that the first traveller to offer substantial plant records was Martin Martin ( 1698 & 1703 ) . |
| 26 | It was , however , only fairly recently that the first challenge occurred with Mr Malone attacking the practice on a number of grounds . |