Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even before 1905 , a solidly-based mass press had come into being , and in the last decade of the Empire there was an explosion in the publication of newspapers , while the number of books appearing more than trebled in the first decade and a half of the century . |
| 2 | In discussing the interactions of mental illnesses and brain failure Gray and Isaacs ( 1979 ) showed that illnesses such as depression , psychosis and neurosis do continue to occur in old age but are more likely to recur than appear for the first time . |
| 3 | ‘ we are persuaded that , there being no authority to prevent us , it is preferable as a matter of justice to hold parties to their clearly expressed bargain rather than to introduce for the first time in 1971 an extension of a doctrine of land law so as to deny the efficacy of that bargain . |
| 4 | Using a rate of discount of 10% per annum ( 0.027% per day ) implies that the expected duration of a job is about 1.3 years if accepted in the first three months of the unemployment spell and three years if accepted later ( see footnote 3 ) . |
| 5 | His true value would have been far more appreciated if introduced in the first place to more mature minds . |
| 6 | If the company has been dormant from the time of its formation , the special resolution will be effective if passed before the first general meeting at which accounts are to be laid . |
| 7 | Rubella is the most serious maternal infection and can cause severe mental and physical damage if contracted during the first 16 weeks of pregnancy . |
| 8 | She flushed and hesitated , as if realizing for the first time where all this was leading . |
| 9 | While rejoicing in the first full month of the closed fishing season also look out for the pale new leaves of spring . |
| 10 | When stopped for the first offence , he claimed the cruise control on his BMW was set at 98mph . |
| 11 | If these do not yield results which support the hypothesis , it may either be because the experiments were ineffectively designed , in which case the researcher will - design some more , or because the hypothesis was invalid as formulated in the first place , in which case the researcher will reformulate it , and then work out what new experiments are needed to test it . |
| 12 | The metabolic clearance rate of G17 was 8 ( 6–93 ) before and 8 ( 6–76 ) ml/kg.min after treatment when calculated by the first method and 9 ( 6–74 ) and 8 ( 6–62 ) ml/kg.min respectively by the second method . |
| 13 | This estimate of classical unemployment , when added to the first estimate of natural unemployment , will determine the magnitude of the Keynesian component of observed unemployment . |
| 14 | This is also the first thing we can tell about a person when meeting for the first time . |
| 15 | We reach this conclusion in the light of the evidence that notwithstanding the rules as to dismissal for theft as applied in the first place … each case can be and is reviewed on the intervention of the security officer who … will make an appropriate recommendation where the case does not warrant dismissal . ’ |
| 16 | This measurement may , therefore , be of clinical value in the assessment of a patient with impaired renal function when seen for the first time . |
| 17 | He himself claimed to have been present at the battle of the Boyne , as a private soldier in King William 's army ; later he deserted from the Royal Regiment of Dragoons ( Scots Greys ) when serving under the first Duke of Marlborough [ q.v. ] in Flanders . |
| 18 | I recalled that in the New Testament , in the life of Jesus as written in the first four books , there were many psychic happenings . |
| 19 | To do this , the cases are reordered so that the X values are in order , as shown in the first two columns of figure 10.6 . |
| 20 | The reduced weighting of standardised mortality ratio in the final formula resulted in a shift in resources from the regions with higher premature mortality ( predominantly in the north ) to those with lower premature mortality ( mainly in the south east ) as shown in the first column of the table . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Adverse currency movements in Brazil and a worse result in Puerto Rico also contributed to the increased deficit , although the latter showed some improvement in the second quarter when compared to the first three months of the year . |
| 23 | If he moves into an enemy then he is engaged in hand-to-hand combat and must fight in the following hand-to-hand combat round ( he counts as charging in the first round as is also the case with magically induced movement ) . |
| 24 | The Bridge of Ice may be used to move friendly troops into hand-to-hand combat , in which case they may fight from the following combat round and count as charging in the first round . |
| 25 | The match seemed as good as settled by the first evening . |
| 26 | Their only rule of religious , moral and social life was the Law of Moses as found in the first five books of the Old Testament ( called the Pentateuch or the Torah ) . |
| 27 | When introduced for the first time , technical terms can be helpfully identified by having inverted commas round them . |
| 28 | So the first defendant was entitled to ‘ all costs charges and expenses … on a full indemnity basis ’ and the receivers were entitled to retain out of the mortgaged property their remuneration as fixed by the first defendant . |
| 29 | As indicated in the first chapter , there has evolved during relatively recent times a " traditional " listing of Muftis , the tradition beginning essentially with Mustakimzade and reaching perhaps definitive expression in the widely-used the equally widely-used chronological history by Danismend , and , more recently , Altunsu 's In respect at least of the origins of the institution this tradition has triumphed over another of some antiquity , advanced by Katib Celebi and followed by Hezarfen and the western authors d'Ohsson and Hammer , which names Hizir Bey ( d. 863/1459 ) , the first kadi of Istanbul , as the first Seyhulislam and which differs in several other respects from the now-accepted account of the succession of fifteenth-century Muftis . |
| 30 | The history syllabus as defined in the first national curriculum which ended in 1926 : |