Example sentences of "by [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1911 , when the second Moroccan crisis had shown how easily Europe might now be engulfed by war , it was discussed by parliament for the first time . |
| 2 | The Hood block , which lies close to recent discoveries , was awarded to a group operated by LASMO in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 3 | Houston-based Compaq says its sales rose by 10% during the first three months of this year . |
| 4 | To visit London again from Swanage he would travel by boat for the first part of the journey or by carriage along the rough road to join the Emerald coach at Wareham , both taking a whole day . |
| 5 | One interpretation for the lack of overall relationship might be that the laboratory simulation was not actually successful in producing levels of subjective risk of the same magnitude as those experienced by drivers in the first study . |
| 6 | It rested on a grant of authority over the whole country by Gregory to the first archbishop , followed by a long history of the exercise of this authority from the seventh century onwards . |
| 7 | And if yesterday 's result is followed by defeat in the first Test at Old Trafford , the clamour for change at the top will reach a crescendo . |
| 8 | Production of luxury cars at Jaguar rose by 56% in the first four months of the year , largely due to increased demand in its biggest market , America , where sales in the first four months were 27% higher than a year ago . |
| 9 | The FT property-company index soared by 32% in the first five months of the year , while the FT-All Share gained just 3% . |
| 10 | If the right arises by reference to the first marketing of the article , such as where a semiconductor topography is designed by a Brazilian in Brazil but is marketed in the United Kingdom by an importer , then the importer will be deemed to own the semiconductor design right . |
| 11 | If , however , those tastes have been generated by companies in the first place then the idea of consumer sovereignty is overthrown . |
| 12 | The rotating presidency of the Council was held by Ireland for the first half of 1990 , by Italy for the second half of 1990 , and in 1991 it was held first by Luxembourg and then by the Netherlands . |
| 13 | Eight days before the choice Mains ' face seemed set in a state of shock , for the All Blacks had just escaped 24–21 from defeat by Ireland in the First Test . |
| 14 | Worse , many bad habits can be especially difficult to cure because they are likely to have been created by anxiety in the first place , and trying to stop the habit increases the horse 's anxiety . |
| 15 | John S. Herold , a consultancy based in Connecticut , says its index of share prices of large companies producing oil and gas in America rose by 12% during the first quarter . |
| 16 | It is certainly true that one strand at least in a Northumbrian view of the past seems to have thought of Nechtanesmere as destroying the position of military dominance originally achieved by Eadwine in the first half of the seventh century ( HE II , 5 ) , whereas Eadwine 's ascendancy over the Britons in Wales had disappeared by the mid-630s and an overlordship of the southern English kingdoms , restored only temporarily in the late 650s , was lost long before 685 ( see above , p. 85 ) . |
| 17 | Indeed , Grant 's malt exports began almost by accident with the first significant shipments beginning in 1963 . |
| 18 | Hereford fell again … only one goal in it … they 're always so close are United … but not close enough on the attackers for the winner which was scored by Morris in the first half … |
| 19 | Just out of Bainbridge by the road that snakes up by Brough Hill are the remains of a Roman camp built by Agricola in the first century AD to police the area . |
| 20 | Unaware that she had called him by name for the first time , she halted , still some feet away , gazing at him uncertainly . |
| 21 | Orders in the UK rose by 15% in the first five months . |
| 22 | So the payment increased on average by 75% between the first and the second repetition , while the group payments rose from 93% to 108% ( of an individual payment ) between the first and second repetition clear evidence of a learning effect and slight evidence of a group effect . |
| 23 | This concern was voiced by Joanne within the first month of the new way of working : |
| 24 | At the conclusion , the top element of the final column is found by use of the first row of A1 . |
| 25 | In this context we may distinguish ( i ) the impartiality which is part and parcel of making moral or legal-judgments on the basis of formulating universal rules permitting or prohibiting certain types of conduct as distinct from making decisions only about particular persons and particular occasions : the impartiality not just of universalisability but of rules which actually are to be universalised ; ( ii ) the impartiality of being a non-involved person which is particularly relevant to the position of the person who is applying legal or moral rules to particular circumstances and which is directly to do with the characteristics of the judge who according to this standard must have no personal interest in the outcome of the case , but which may also be relevant in the process of legislation since legislators may have particular and personal interests in the outcome of the legislation in question ; ( iii ) there is the idea of impartiality as a norm of moral and judicial reasoning which has to do with giving due consideration to all relevant factors , a practice which may further but is not guaranteed by impartiality of the first two types . |
| 26 | Greek historian ( c .200–120 BC ) of the rise of Rome , referred to by Gibbon in the first chapter of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . |
| 27 | The Gnostic critique and rejection of the Creator God of the Old Testament was taken to extremes by Marcion in the first half of the second century . |
| 28 | Twenty two points in the final quarter underlined Bangor 's superiority , but did scant justice to a gutsy defensive show by Collegians in the first half . |
| 29 | Yet Israel occupies less than a quarter of the mandatory territory controlled by Britain after the first world war . |
| 30 | On Feb. 20 the government reported that some 5,000 people had been detained and transported by air to the first two of five detention camps being set up in the Sahara region of southern Algeria . |