Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [conj] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Construction on Moriconium Quay , named after the Roman settlement of AD45 , will begin early this spring and the first properties will be ready in the summer of 1992 . |
| 2 | And on the Jimmy Young Show , as the news of Telecom 's unannounced increase in charges was discussed : ‘ Well , said Jimmy , brightly , ‘ let's take some calls on this issue and the first one is Mrs so-and-so from whatnot … ’ and , yes you 've guessed it , what did Mrs so-and-so from whatnot have to say ? |
| 3 | It is from this period that the first two political bonds of the mid sixteenth century come . |
| 4 | It was in this period that the first organised adult meetings began to be held , first in Glasgow then in Edinburgh , London , Manchester and Leeds . |
| 5 | A few weeks after the first officials went into the remote poppy valley , the charity began receiving visits from Pakistani and Afghan tribesmen and landlords demanding large sums in ‘ compensation ’ . |
| 6 | It is not possible to match a large defined pattern in the normal way ( page 32 ) with this seam as the first row of stitching is carried out with wrong sides facing . |
| 7 | Me and all my friends ended up in this cult and the first thing this guy said we had to do was turn all of our friendships against each other so that we could n't trust anybody . |
| 8 | and she had to ask Reception for another vase because the first one was full up . |
| 9 | To those who , like me , find it difficult to relate the education of the young child to a future market place and to the , as yet unknown , technological changes which the last decade of this century and the first decade of the next will bring , the debate is somewhat arid . |
| 10 | It was the fourth rise in German interest rates this year and the first time for several years that they have risen by a full percentage point . |
| 11 | There was this view that the first world war would be rather like a re-run of some of these wars at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | Whenever I put food out around a sett prior to an evening watch , I can usually hear a badger munching a peanut or two for some time before the first animal comes into view . |
| 13 | Curiously , this is the only Powell/Pressburger film to give such credits and the first Powell one to do so since the multi-directed The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ) , which in fact won that year 's Oscar for effects and sound . |
| 14 | The concept was translated into practical terms with such urgency that the first true thermonuclear device ( MIKE ) was exploded on 1 November , 1952 , and gave a yield of 10 megatonnes ( about 1000 times as great as the bombs dropped on Japan ) . |
| 15 | Access to special procedure material can only be obtained by virtue of a warrant issued by a circuit judge who can issue such a warrant either where , prior to the Act , there would have been access to such material and the first set of access conditions apply or where the judge has reasonable grounds to believe ( i ) a serious arrestable offence has been committed . |
| 16 | It was for these reasons that the first ‘ valves ’ for radios and televisions and computers were evacuated glass vessels , descendants of Crookes ' radiometer and cathode ray tube , rather than semiconductors . |
| 17 | ‘ But it raises fewer objections than the first theory , that he came in half-naked and armed with a razor and yet there are no obvious signs that Berowne put up any resistance . ’ |
| 18 | My boyfriend knew nothing of these habits and the first move was to tell him , which relieved me incredibly ( actually to admit to someone how unhappy I was with these eating habits ) . |
| 19 | She was the first Labour candidate to be returned for that constituency and the first woman MP for a Liverpool seat . |
| 20 | A multiple.length value is held in a number of consecutive store locations ; the left-most bit of all words but the first ( which holds the sign bit ) may either be used arithmetically or may be ignored . |
| 21 | Thus it was n't for many years after the first inhibitor experiments were reported that I actually got around to test their effects myself . |
| 22 | It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 . |
| 23 | The oddity is that the jurist seems to deal only with the second question , which is of much less complexity than the first . |
| 24 | A second charge over the side brought no more response than the first , and a rising moon showed up the wild seascape . |
| 25 | The only year where they coincide is nineteen twenty , the great erm influenza epidemic actually killed more people than the first world war , and er as you 'll see , despite increasing trends in health care which have reduced the overall rate , the difference in death rate between males and females has remained in the same or , if anything , widened slightly in recent years . |
| 26 | I think he had a thing about it particularly because he knew the record company really was going for that song because the first American space shot was coming up . |
| 27 | The infradental papillae are block-like usually contiguous lying above the broad rectangular teeth , but in smaller specimens these papillae may lie on the same level as the first tooth and be separated by it . |
| 28 | Her opening words , which echo a pair of lines in Chaucer 's first fabliau in the sequence of the Canterbury Tales , the Miller 's Tale ( I : 3768 – 9 ) , invite a dialogue charged with sexual connotations , not only in the obvious case of " " ryse " " , but also in the detectable reference to a conventional love-sickness : The monk 's answer immediately confirms the sexual topic of the dialogue , and dispenses with any euphemistic disguises : This rapid movement to a contextually surprising level of familiarity on the topic of sexual intimacy is paralleled in the French fabliau Auburee , where the old bawd , Auburee , in procuring a young wife for a besotted admirer , visits the wife and moves smartly into the bedroom , declaring : ( " I should certainly like to see your bed : then I should know for certain if you lie in the same splendour as the first wife did . " ) |
| 29 | They have both used the same quotation but the first writer takes it wholesale . |
| 30 | To his credit , Tony scored a hat-trick for the reserves on the same night that the first eleven where jeered off the pitch . |