Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study draws together the results of five years ' work by the investigator and the findings of the ESRC 's extensive research programme in this field to provide the first comprehensive account of central-local relationships in the UK for nearly twenty years . |
| 2 | Any higher level processing must begin with orthography , hence this study forms the first part of a contextual system . |
| 3 | This chapter uses the first measure to give an outline indication of how big a part credit , overall , plays in consumer spending , and how that has changed over time . |
| 4 | I have made few attempts in this chapter to give the first references to ideas or discoveries . |
| 5 | Simons claims that this work provides the first reliable description of how an animal virus enters the cell and initiates infection . |
| 6 | This conference provides the first opportunity in West Belfast itself for the unemployed , community groups , local business people , policy makers , managers and administrators of employment and training schemes , funders , careers teachers , trade unionists and others to discuss present and future employment prospects of people living in West Belfast . |
| 7 | This canon marks the first and crucial step to the creation of ‘ patriarchates ’ , a dignity soon to be shared by Constantinople ( founded 330 ) and Jerusalem , giving the Greek East four patriarchates to the West 's one . |
| 8 | ‘ We have trained the nurse caring for this infant to recognize the first signs of desire for food . |
| 9 | This announcement represented the first explicit US endorsement of an offensive military option . |
| 10 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |
| 11 | Their postcards and T-shirts sell by the crateload , they 've done cover art for Marc Almond , Erasure and Boy George — and yet this month sees the first ever UK exhibition of their work ( including ‘ The Gipsy ’ , right ) . |
| 12 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 13 | This report provides the first direct evidence for expression of P3A + variant mRNA in human thymus . |
| 14 | This software enabled the first of a number of useful commercial applications of AI to be constructed ; many of these can be considered as the second generation of expert systems . |
| 15 | They froze , listening as another burst followed the first . |
| 16 | She welcomes discomfort , counts hostile situations and relishes third world countries , for she is driven by her life long ambition to be a travel photographer and this trip marked the first rung on the ladder . |
| 17 | She welcomes discomfort , counts hostile situations and relishes third world countries , for she is drive by her life long ambition to be a travel photographer and this trip marked the first rung on the ladder . |
| 18 | Out of this time came the first stories of his boldness — answering back to a teacher , taking out girls , and of course the all-dazzling displays at rugby and cricket . |
| 19 | ‘ Basically we have adopted the original Decca configuration of microphones used from the 1950s through to the 1970s , but we do n't use a tree microphone in the middle of the orchestra ; we have a three-point microphone in front of the conductor and an omni-pair on either side to cover the first violin and first cello . |
| 20 | Like any other youth , I was thrilled by the annual visits of the big circus , and when the Al G. Barnes Circus came to town I paid my own way in to the ‘ show ’ and sat up that night writing the first big-top review for the Times-Herald , which Fred Workman accepted with alacrity . |
| 21 | Place three of the wider ones on top of each other to form the first tower . |
| 22 | I was there the night that Madame made the first move in what I now see was a careful campaign to prepare Boy for this romance or meeting . |
| 23 | Naturally enough , the latter group interpreted the first sentence appropriately but were unable to report what they heard through the unattended channel . |
| 24 | It was at this moment , with a faint feeling that made the hair on his head prickle , that Coffin got the first intimation that even if it was not his case , he himself was in it . |
| 25 | She has , she says , only enough petrol to reach the first garage . |
| 26 | These sculptures must date from the middle or later seventh century , and from much the same time come the first carved fragments plausibly associated with a Doric temple . |
| 27 | Later that year came the first signs of health trouble when he was taken to hospital with a heart problem . |
| 28 | It was his management at the end of last season that cost United the First Division title . |
| 29 | 14 members of each section attended the first night . |
| 30 | A searcher reaches the second level of understanding when he is satisfied that Christianity answers the first of these questions . |