Example sentences of "[subord] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Since the first British Crime Survey ( BCS ) was conducted in 1982 there have been several local surveys ( among others Merseyside , Islington , Broadwater Farm and Hammersmith and Fulham ) concerned with the incidence of crime , fear of crime , attitudes to the police and |
| 32 | After the first involuntary repatriation operation , carried out by the Hong Kong authorities on Dec. 12 , 1989 [ see pp. 37121-22 ] , the process was temporarily halted pending a meeting of the 29-nation UN steering committee for the Comprehensive Plan of Action on Indochinese refugees ( CPA ) established in June 1989 [ see p. 36734 ] . |
| 33 | Oppenheimer himself was refused security clearance in December 1953 , four months after the first Russian H-bomb was exploded . |
| 34 | First , that early prognosis after the first variceal haemorrhage is not only related to the residual liver function but also to the requirement in transfusions within the 72 hours after the admission . |
| 35 | It is not the scenery — after the first million pine trees there are a billion more . |
| 36 | After the first half hour I was hooked by its beautifully lucid narrative , but thrown by the guffaw factor in some scenes . |
| 37 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 38 | An analysis by the Council for the Protection of Rural England ( CPRE ) showed that less than a year after the first structural concrete was poured , the project was already £136 million over budget . |
| 39 | By 9 a.m. the shore party reported a swift victory and shortly after the first reluctant emigrant arrived at the ship 's side . |
| 40 | Even after the first national curriculum was quietly abandoned , elementary schools remained under the general regulations of the Board of Education , which meant in effect , continuing to teach history . |
| 41 | This involves not only the introduction of new practices into a system , but their consolidation and continuation after the first enthusiastic impulse has worn off . |
| 42 | After the first rotary press was established at the Daily Times , that paper 's circulation soared from 25,000 in 1951 to 55,000 in 1955 ; ten years later , it reached 120,000 copies daily . |
| 43 | The text , after the first one-sentence paragraph , was a jumble of meaningless words . |
| 44 | After the first fair flush of spring , nothing went right . |
| 45 | The editing pattern consists of one entry per character position in the destination string : each of these specifies insertion either of a designated character or of the next character from the source string , and this may depend on the sign of the value being converted or on whether the first significant digit has yet been reached . |
| 46 | At 28 , Labour 's parliamentary caucus was smaller than at any time since 1931 , before the first Labour government had ever been elected . |
| 47 | Actually it was only a matter of perhaps fifty seconds before the first convulsive rattle of protest shook his ribs , and then she felt the first thread of breath drawn out long and fine under her coaxing fingers as she sat back from him . |
| 48 | Further revision took place before the first combined edition was published , by Chapman & Hall , in 20 monthly parts , price one shilling , between Nov. 1837 and June 1839 . |
| 49 | The year before the first one-day tournament took place , 1962 , saw the end of the distinction between amateur and professional cricketers , between gentlemen and players . |
| 50 | According to traditions in Benin , casting was introduced there from Ife at a date estimated to be towards the end of the 14th century , about a century before the first European contact with Benin was made by sea . |
| 51 | Daly suggests that before the first interglacial period there were no coral reefs in the modern sense , which is disputable . |
| 52 | In this case , the system-wide logical LIFESPANCONFIGURATION may be reassigned by the second startup procedure before the first main image has accessed it . |
| 53 | From Lesley Wittle to Zeebrugge , it has always been a matter of hours before the first risqué punchline filters in . |
| 54 | In October 1930 , ten months before the first National Government was formed , Sir Arthur Balfour , an industrialist and a member of the Economic Advisory Council , wrote to Ramsay MacDonald , saying that he had been forced to the conclusion : That our industrial and commercial economic situation is steadily deteriorating and if this continues , in a few months time , we shall be on the verge of a debacle . |
| 55 | Nevertheless , when the first real wave of evacuation took place , on and after 1 September 1939 , it was conducted in an atmosphere of haste and confusion . |
| 56 | Nobody knows exactly when the first sparkling Champagne was made but the famous Benedictine monk from the abbey of Hautvillers certainly was a crucial figure in its early development . |
| 57 | Later that week we were given a first indication that the previous three ‘ greenhouse ’ winters may merely have been within the normal climatic variations and that a better season may be on its way , when the first Pitztal race was cancelled due to extreme cold ! |
| 58 | But when the first Labour man put up for for in the area , West , 's constituency now as near as possible . |
| 59 | A BUS enthusiast is to have a dream come true when the first Quaker rally and road run is held in Darlington this summer . |
| 60 | they ask , when the first defective test-tube baby is horn ? |