Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Childebert and Chlothar were indeed adding to the first sixty-five , or even the first seventy-eight , clauses of Lex Salica , then the first Merovingian code can be dated before 511 . |
| 2 | And so the first full-time students began class in May , 1977 at the Guitar Institute of Technology ( G.I.T. ) in Hollywood . |
| 3 | The method used for climbing steep ice which employs the two forward facing points and perhaps the first two of the downward ones . |
| 4 | But if Charles was the first Carolingian , and perhaps the first medieval king , to show an insider 's appreciation of contemporary scholarship , he had ( directly or indirectly ) his mother to thank . |
| 5 | Seven nations ( Australia , France , New Zealand , Norway , the UK , Argentina , Chile ) claim sectors of the continent ; the claims of the last three overlap substantially , and only the first five recognize each others ' claims reciprocally . |
| 6 | The UK government measures the lead in tapwater that has been running for several minutes , as it would be if you had a bath in it , and not the first few pints or cupfuls , as you would use for cooking or making a cup of tea . |
| 7 | Most unintentional stalls occur , by definition , unexpectedly and usually the first obvious sign of what has happened is that the pilot is banging the stick on the rear stop with the nose still dropping — a frightening feeling . |
| 8 | Malaise and appreciable increases in serum transaminase activities coincided with a marked increase in the number of hepatocytes staining for HDAg and also the first histological appearance of HBcAg ( Fig 6 ) . |
| 9 | Thus , we have chemical control — albeit naturally derived — of a chemical contaminant not a biological one , and probably the first recorded instance . |
| 10 | The subject of this short ‘ case study ’ is the new Bachelor of Education degree and particularly the first two years . |
| 11 | Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm . |
| 12 | Fromanteel 's importance in English clock-making lies in the introduction of the first pendulum clocks , and therefore the first long-case clocks , into England . |
| 13 | Among the more successful privately owned terminals have been the Glaswegian trio of Deanside , Mossend and Law junction , all of which ( but especially the first two ) have attracted healthy quantities of regular traffic . |
| 14 | The range was wide , but only the first two attracted much notice , the Arts Council Working Party pointing out in 1969 that since these were not crimes at all , how could it be ‘ a heavily punishable crime to ‘ induce ’ these particular non-crimes ? ’ |
| 15 | Members of Village community made use of the second and third but not the first social argument against school closure listed on page 35 , and added a number of other way of life arguments of their own . |