Example sentences of "[subord] [det] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible Minton also knew that the house was built on the site of former warehouses where some of the first slaves brought to Britain were unloaded and where many died . |
| 2 | The evidence for the second point of view is limited , but certainly stronger than that for the first . |
| 3 | In some words , we can observe a type of stress that is weaker than primary stress but stronger than that of the first syllable of ‘ around ’ , for example in the first syllables of the words ‘ photographic ’ , ‘ anthropology ’ . |
| 4 | I think we 'd be er prepared to accept this at , what 's asked for is a feasibility study , no more than that in the first instance and I think we 'd be prepared to accept . |
| 5 | Société Générale , one of the country 's biggest banks , had to raise provisions against dud loans by more than half in the first six months of 1990 . |
| 6 | They were often shorter and plumper than those of the first category , excelling in pirouettes , élévation and batterie , because of their natural gift of ballon . |
| 7 | If either of the first two did so , the defendant would not be liable . |
| 8 | If any of the first five are included in your list , take heart , because these can be dealt with and are avoidable . |
| 9 | Taylor has stipulated that third and fourth division clubs have until the end of the decade to become all-seater , while those in the first and second divisions have just two close seasons . |
| 10 | It appears that a reworded criterion : " can represent a given decimal number on a number line to one decimal place " would have yielded a success rate of 75 per cent , about the same as that for the first item . |
| 11 | The topology of the molecule , which comprises two immunoglobulin-like domains , is the same as that of the first two domains of CD4 but the relative domain orientation is altered by a fairly flexible linker region . |
| 12 | Where the causes are successive and the second defendant 's breach of duty has caused the same damage as that of the first defendant , the but for test will exonerate the second defendant . |
| 13 | As half of the first full-time two man drug squad in the North-East of England , I was tasked with defining and dealing with the new social aberration of ‘ flower power ’ , ‘ the counter culture ’ , and the ‘ psychedelic trip ’ . |
| 14 | While a broad toleration of different opinions characterized Jewish religious thought as such during the first century B.C. the conflicts between political and religious leaders , especially of the Pharisaic persuasion , were murderous . |