Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The citation currency period for each cited thesis is here defined as the difference ( in years ) between the year of the last recorded citation , and that of the first . |
| 2 | DUAO was calculated as the difference between the urine H + /creatinine molar ratio of the urine sample collected after basal acid secretion , and that of the first urine sample passed after gastric stimulation . |
| 3 | It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ … |
| 4 | Any upturn in demand also produces a substantial improvement in profit in several other of our businesses , for instance Westminster Press , Les Echo Lazards Tussaud and I 'd like to remind people that we 're a very second half oriented company and that in the first half of nineteen ninety two we had some major one-off contributions to profits which very much helped the figures , but nonetheless , we 're pleased at the way the trading profits of the operating companies are moving . |
| 5 | But there are at least four levels of understanding clearly discernible in a biblical view of faith and each of the first four categories of doubt runs parallel to one of these levels . |
| 6 | Sabrina opened the top file and leafed through the first few invoices . |
| 7 | DEC and IBM will follow along with support for Chinese and Korean in the first quarter . |
| 8 | In at least two of the areas I visited the regional health authority and some of the first wave fundholders were wrangling over the savings accrued during the first year . |
| 9 | No one familiar with the performance of domestic industry in most countries outside and some inside the First World would be surprised by this but , even so , one might wonder why the figures for local sourcing are quite so low when local materials and components are available . |
| 10 | Hazel and his companions had spent the night doing everything that came unnaturally to them , and this for the first time . |
| 11 | You know you have to do something but are unclear and afraid of the first step . |
| 12 | Yet one study showed that about one in five of all premarital pregnancies occur in the first month of a sexual relationship , and half within the first six months . |
| 13 | So I could always go up there and I used there little drill for one thing and another in the first place and er built that premise for me there did and I did er |
| 14 | The top layer was built , that you saw in the photograph , was built later , so 31 and 32 had two rooms , erm on the ground floor , and 2 on the first floor , 33 , which was smaller , but it does have a fair sized room , and another upstairs , and then the very small one is 34 . |
| 15 | ICI will be able to stop manufacturing CFCs 11 and 12 in the first quarter of next year , having secured supplies for its remaining customers through a deal with Akzo . |
| 16 | Humphrey Lyttelton recounts : ‘ We brought along with us a strong contingent from Camberwell Art School , and John Minton , now recognised as a distinguished painter , was among the most formidable and dangerous of the first school of dancers . ’ |
| 17 | Now by the usual rule for differentiation of determinants , unc is linear and homogeneous in the first minors of{ gd } ( |
| 18 | Apologies for absence , minutes of the previous meeting , agenda , jokes and folksy parables bored one and all for the first half-hour . |
| 19 | Of the eleven who won the Cup for Manchester United in 1948 , most of whom were internationals and all in the first rank of senior professionals , five went into football coaching and management , three ran newsagents ' shops ( customers presumably enjoyed discussing the sports headlines with men who had once made them ) , two worked in factories , and one became a night-telephonist . |
| 20 | ‘ Halziel and Lingary , ’ he says , staring at me , and he looks really concerned , worried and harried and tired for the first time ; yes , it 's all change here in Paddington Green . |
| 21 | Scores of one and 25 in the first Test at Calcutta were in line with his dismal average of 17 , but in the first innings of the second Test in Madras , he at last showed signs of mastering the Indian spinners . |
| 22 | Beck , who had defeated Aki Ohmachi of Japan 8 and 6 in the first round , was heading for an even bigger defeat . |
| 23 | RIVER WEAVER : Usually a good starter and busy for the first few days . |
| 24 | We say that if food is good and wholesome in the first place , we do n't need irradiation . |
| 25 | So we 'll go a hundred and eighty in the first three hours . |
| 26 | This was the first poem Dana showed me , and one of the first I reworked with him . |
| 27 | Building a tractor from scratch is largely a process of jumping endless technical hurdles , and one of the first problems was fitting the clutch . |
| 28 | It has been estimated that two-thirds of all undiscovered oil and gas are to be found offshore and one of the first acts of the Reagan administration was to accelerate the process of offshore leasing in the Gulf areas , the California coast and also the North Atlantic coast . |
| 29 | But many archbishops were delighted by the excuse to go on pilgrimage to Rome ; and one of the first to benefit from the custom was Sigeric , archbishop of Canterbury ( 990 — 4 ) , who has left us a kind of diary of his visit — first of the churches in Rome which a pilgrim had especially to visit and to pray in , and then of the stages on his long journey back to Canterbury . |
| 30 | Bernie Grant , representing Tottenham in the borough of Haringey and one of the first black MPs , was unequivocal and unambiguous in his opposition from the very start . |