Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | My initial impression , on seeing this guitar for the first time , was that Rockwood have tried very hard to steer away from total Strat clone , whilst keeping all the essential ingredients pretty much to the fore . |
| 2 | In response to Air Ministry Specification R14/24 calling for a large , long-range flying-boat , Blackburn Aircraft ventured into this field for the first time in 1924 with their RB.1 Iris ( Blackburn 's previous flying-boat experience had been with the diminutive N.1B and Pellet single-seat designs ) . |
| 3 | Indeed , I have found that students and businessmen who are using this technique for the first time tend to get confused between the two axes . |
| 4 | Is this extract from the first ‘ brave new world ’ document or the ‘ let's look at this again ’ release ? |
| 5 | The two tasks are interrelated but in this book we separate them and look in this chapter at the first and most difficult task . |
| 6 | As we pointed out in a tailpiece to this chapter in the first edition , the CNAA announced in June 1979 a modification of validation procedures for public sector institutions offering its courses . |
| 7 | Eliminating between these equations gives or on separately equating the real and imaginary parts The second of these two relations simplifies to and substitution of this condition into the first yields Equations ( 8.34 ) and ( 8.35 ) , representing the conditions that must be satisfied to procure total rejection , become much simpler if it is assumed that , for they then reduce to Evidently , if and , total rejection occurs at a frequency close to . |
| 8 | ah , it was alright , er , it was a bit , David did a good performance , erm , and there was this boy in the first year , and he was apparently been turned down by Lambda Do you know who Lambda are , I do n't even know who they are . |
| 9 | I hand initially intended to start this column with the first sentence of what is now its second paragraph , but felt it would amusingly underscore the premise of the piece — the ubiquity and infinite adaptability of Magritte 's once exclusively surrealist insights — were it to open thus . |
| 10 | Thus this work on the first century of Ottoman history bears the marks of the great disappointment at the collapse of Bayezid 's empire . |
| 11 | The CASE projects aim at least to double this proportion in the first three years of secondary schooling by developing new teaching skills in science teachers . |
| 12 | Not wildly entertaining , but with unintentionally wildly funny moments , this recollection of the first crossing of the Atlantic by Christopher Columbus 500 years ago , is more round the bend than round the world . |
| 13 | If we 're so smart we would n't be in this mess in the first place . |
| 14 | ‘ If she had done her job properly , I would never have been in this mess in the first place . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And I 'm sorry , too , ’ puts in Rainbow , ‘ for getting you into this mess in the first place . |
| 16 | Part of her , that stubborn , spirited side , the side that had got her into this mess in the first place , would n't let her give up , back out and admit that Luke Denner and his sexuality were more than she could handle . |
| 17 | Yet he is required to hand over his children 's future to the ‘ non-ideological ’ market forces he thinks are largely responsible for getting us all into this mess in the first place . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer . |
| 19 | The biggest question mark over Major out of the row is how the Government got into this mess in the first place . |
| 20 | In fact they were clearly entranced by Hannah — which , it has to be said , is par for the course with everyone meeting this lady for the first time . |
| 21 | It will be the 50th Irish match at this venue since the first in 1868 . |
| 22 | The fact that at least half of the world 's children would not actually go through this process beyond the first two stages is conveniently forgotten or ignored and , no doubt , the reasons for this were largely social . |
| 23 | Some babies affected like this die in the first year of their life , those who do not die can face a lifetime of handicap . |
| 24 | Some babies affected like this die in the first year of their life , those who do not die can face a lifetime of handicap . |
| 25 | It is worth emphasizing quite how serious a refusal this finery of the first Edwardians represented . |
| 26 | In this period of the first twelve months of the life of the new church we experienced doubt , uncertainty and spiritual attack . |
| 27 | For the first time in his life , he really looked at his son , weighing up this product of the first six months of marriage before disillusionment set in . |
| 28 | A Marxist writer would probably identify this group as the first stirrings of a black petit bourgeoisie . |
| 29 | ‘ That was something I missed terribly when I retired and doing this race for the first time is a way of replacing it . ’ |
| 30 | General Motors and Ford both expect to lose money on car manufacturing this quarter for the first time since the 1982 recession , largely as a result of overcapacity in the market . |