Example sentences of "and [adv] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Founded in 1583 , the University has a distinguished tradition of learning and of innovation , including examples in the Arts ( Edinburgh established the first Chair of English Literature in Britain ) , in the Sciences ( with the UK 's first Chair of Agriculture and latterly the first Chair and Department of Artificial Intelligence ) and , of course , in Medicine and the other professions . |
| 2 | The Ambassador , Benedetti , was on leave and so the First Secretary of the Embassy was entrusted with seeing Bismarck in order to put the question to him . |
| 3 | As previously stated , rural land cover was not an important consideration , and so the first component image was discarded , together with the last three , leaving components 2 , 3 and 4 . |
| 4 | And so the first memories is in the meadows of Nottingham , going to infant school about the age do n't remember starting , but perhaps I 'd be six years of age , and it was a little church school and they were all lady teachers and most of them Mrs and not the Miss which is nowadays er more common . |
| 5 | This corresponds to a 1 symmetry , and so the first overtone of a b 1 vibration is an a 1 transition . |
| 6 | ( 10.68 ) It follows from this and ( 10.66 ) that , and so the first term in ( 10.64 ) must necessarily be included in these solutions . |
| 7 | It can be shown that and so the first term on the right-hand side of eqn ( 20.7 ) represents the transfer of energy between wavenumbers . |
| 8 | ‘ But it is mite dung that people become allergic to , and so the first thing to get rid of is the dung . |
| 9 | Such relations occur in hierarchies , but for a proportional series all the structuring relations must be ‘ one-to-one ’ , that is to say , each relation must be such that for any element there is just one other element to which it can stand in that relation , and only the first element can stand in that relation to the second . |
| 10 | The mechanical output power per phase is simply the product of the phase current and the induced voltage ( Fitzgerald and Kingsley , 1952 ) : As the system is assumed to have an inertia large enough to prevent significant changes in velocity , the time.varying components of mechanical output power are of no interest and only the first term of Eqn . |
| 11 | The comedy-writer Statius Caecilius was a Celtic speaker by birth , an Insuber from northern Italy ( St Jerome , Chron. a. 1838 , p. 138 Helm ) , and apparently the first writer the proud city of Milan ever produced . |
| 12 | How was Norway Chamberlain 's fault and not the First Sea Lord 's ? |
| 13 | For statistical reasons and because of the ever changing pattern of pedestrian and vehicular movement at treated sites and elsewhere the first Plan argued for an annual ‘ gross ’ target reduction of 60 casualties . |
| 14 | The next evening was dark and cloudy ; a storm threatened and already the first drops of rain were falling . |
| 15 | There was , indeed , found to be a greater right field advantage in verbal ability and thus the first hypothesis was supported . |
| 16 | Labour council leader John Williams said the pedestrianisation of Skinnergate and High Row was long overdue and just the first step in a town improvement strategy . |
| 17 | During this period Meldola discovered the first oxazine dyestuff ( Meldola 's blue ) , and also the first alkali green ( viridine ) . |
| 18 | That was n't what you said , that was n't what you said , and probably the first person to put your granny in a home . |
| 19 | He was the first to recommend skiing as a sport to the Norwegians themselves and probably the first man to ski in the Alps . |
| 20 | Paula was amazed by the security arrangements that were necessary to ensure that the new season 's collections remained exclusive — the windows at the rear of the premises were heavily barred and practically the first thing she had to do on commencing her employment was to sign a contract promising that she would not breathe a word about the designs she saw . |
| 21 | In Section 4.3 the correspondence between the metric components and the Newtonian gravitational potential was noted , and later in Section 6.8 it was seen that the metric connection and hence the first derivatives of the metric components correspond to the gravitational acceleration . |
| 22 | And now the first STV general election is being held , the voters in the polling booths are busily writing 1,2,3,4,5 … instead of marking the customary X , and the sun is shining . |
| 23 | Pallister survived a traumatic start at Old Trafford to win FA Cup and European Cupwinners Cup medals , and now the First Division championship is within United 's grasp . |
| 24 | Having read with interest the saga of the Ashley Court Hotel , and now the first instalment on the Valley Hotel ( Caterer , 11–17 July ) , it strikes me that the Povahs and the Cassons should combine their marketing , accounting and food systems skills . |
| 25 | Walking through the village on any racing day one would hear conversation like , " What do you know today Fred " and the reply would bring forth such words of wisdom as " Watch Richards in the 2.30 " , or " Back top weight " for these men had a language of their own and in the evening , meeting over a pint the locals would discuss the downfall of the favourite or starting prices and often the first greeting one would get on opening the door of the bar was " How did you get on today " Tich " " , and often the reply was " First and second , Fred " . |
| 26 | The police hastily threw a cordon across the end of Duke Street and here the first clashes occurred . |
| 27 | After two miles of road , and maybe the first blisters and unknown muscles making their presence felt , came the test ! |
| 28 | and then the first day I stop , I 've usually got flu , I 'm exhausted , I ca n't get out of bed , I feel rotten , but if I keep going for like , three weeks to a month , just on six hours , that 's fine , but the first day I stop I 'm like , in bed for a week ill usually . |
| 29 | Those who believe that klaxon horns or traffic lights ( as used elsewhere ) , would more securely given warnings overlook the long tradition of the British flagman , one of whom by law carried a red flag before the early railway locomotives and then the first motorcars . |
| 30 | It was patented in Germany sixteen years later as an appetite suppressor ( and then the First World War happened … ) . |