Example sentences of "the [noun sg] by the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long ridge-walk requires an early start , and a companion and I set off from the hotel at 8.30 , toast crumbs still trembling on our lips , to attain the ridge by the first peak , Creag a' Mhaim . |
| 2 | The attempt by the first headmaster to run Whittingham as a Jewish Eton was not appreciated by the children . |
| 3 | But he only said , ‘ It was raised from the rock by the first High Kings , and it is filled with rather strange enchantments . |
| 4 | An old shepherd Harry Mason confirmed [ the ] shedding of the corn by the first combines : ‘ I used to turn my sheep out on to the corn stubble . |
| 5 | Further the third to fifth defendants were also knowingly concerned in investment transactions entered into by the first defendant with members of the U.K. investing public in the course of and/or as a result of the aforesaid contraventions of the Act by the first defendant in which the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned in the respects set out in paragraph 29 herein . |
| 6 | To this end , some computers provide " reverse " or " inverted " subtract and divide , which ( respectively ) subtract the first from the second operand and divide the second by the first operand . |
| 7 | It was a town created on the marshland by the first Bishop of Norwich ( Herbert Losinga , 1091–1119 ) , to whom the site belonged and who saw its wonderful possibilities . |
| 8 | The foreword by the first President of the SSATs to The Guide to Procedure stresses the enabling functions of the tribunals : |
| 9 | Figure 5 shows that the cleavage pattern has returned to that in the control by the first time point ( 20 seconds ) and confirms that this antibiotic dissociates from DNA much more rapidly than actinomycin . |
| 10 | This is when there is the greatest risk of the glider being lifted off the ground by the first strong gust . |
| 11 | However , Manchester United 's backlog of League fixtures means that unless they play their First Division game with West Ham that night they could not finish the season by the first weekend in May . |
| 12 | ‘ An order under section 61(1) that the third , fourth and fifth defendants and each of them pay such sum as the court thinks fit to the plaintiffs or alternatively into court or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 30 or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 31 in such manner as the court may direct or alternatively that they take such other steps as the court may direct for the purpose of remedying the contravention by the first defendant of sections 47 and 57 . |
| 13 | It connotes the discovery of the world by the first and most direct way open to us , and the discovery of ourselves in our native environment . |
| 14 | An offer to purchase , at a recommended price of £38,000 , must come from within the country by the first of this month . |
| 15 | A development kit for applications developers will be available by year-end , and open microkernel on-chip products will be on the market by the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 16 | A development kit for applications developers will be available by year-end , and open microkernel on-chip products will be on the market by the first quarter of 1994 . |