Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had looked for a loophole in their guard , he had found that crevice at the first time of asking . |
| 2 | Why then did you put over a hundred thousand pounds in that budget in the first place ? |
| 3 | In other words these Guatemalan children show , as do Dennis 's institutionalized infants , that retardation during the first year or two of life is reversible , and that early experiences , however drastic at the time , do not necessarily set up patterns of behaviour that can not subsequently be modified . |
| 4 | ‘ If she 's dead , ’ said Sam , ‘ she 's not going to mind much about anything , and anyway , if she went to all the trouble of making that tape in the first place , she 's obviously not bothered about leaving it lying around . |
| 5 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , facing probably the biggest crisis in its history now that it is confronted with an administration not prepared to pour ever more good taxpayers ' money after bad ( CI No 2,166 ) , yesterday reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m ; sales slumped 16.5% to $422m and rentals and services fell 5.1% to $521m . |
| 6 | And now facing probably the biggest crisis in its history , Bull last week reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m . |
| 7 | If the hon. Gentleman is seeking to make a charge against me , he must make that charge equally against the chief veterinary officer for raising that issue in the first place . |
| 8 | Traffic through the Mersey tunnels was down 4.9pc in the year ending in April but a spokesman said indications were that it had regained 3pc of that business in the first few months of this year . |
| 9 | But I mean they were banging they were banging fifteen hundred in for that disco for the first |
| 10 | WHAT on earth did Scotland do with that ball in the first half ? |
| 11 | Having listened to most of that stuff for the first time in seven years yesterday , most of it is pretty embarrassing . |
| 12 | The crucial question is whether it manages to liberate at least as much energy from fusions as was expended in running a particle accelerator to produce that muon in the first place . |
| 13 | On Dec. 23 two Palestinians were shot dead and more than 40 injured during fresh unrest in the Gaza Strip , the borders of which had been opened that day for the first time since the abduction of Toledano . |
| 14 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 15 | What happens in is you do have the people in that area in the first few weeks . |
| 16 | Peter Shore , Wilson 's Parliamentary Private Secretary in 1965–6 , puts it even more strongly : ‘ Harold 's supremacy within that Cabinet in the first two , perhaps even three , years was enormous . ’ |
| 17 | The following day Lord Francis Douglas , who was to die later that week on the first ascent of the Matterhorn , made the second ascent , accompanied by Peter Taugwalder , the guide , Joseph Vian . |
| 18 | To acknowledge hunger ( which is not a disease but a social illness ) would be tantamount to political suicide among leaders whose power has come traditionally from the same plantation economy that produced that hunger in the first place . |
| 19 | More remarkable than his treatment of the mistress as recipient or subject-matter of the sonnets is Shakespeare 's treatment of the man who fills that role in the first 126 poems . |
| 20 | At the same election the Republicans gained twelve seats in the Senate and won control of that chamber for the first time in twenty-five years . |
| 21 | Now , you start that building that information into the first statement of the girl goes for a walk . |
| 22 | wrong anyway in that er I 'll say it 's the er early on it in the report Good defines what he determines a prus trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively orb enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund er is against that duty in the first place , but it to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty which I will say stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 23 | Oh , I 'd say it is w wrong anyway in that er I say it 's the it 's early er on it in the report Good defines what he determines a trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively ought enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund then it is against that duty in the first place , but it 's to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty saying stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 24 | The trouble was , it should never have been parked in that corner in the first place , so there was n't much the owner could say , apart from making the air blue for half an hour or so . |
| 25 | More than that , the caring crème de la crème were also confronted by the result of what had put them at the forefront of that generation in the first place : they were very good at what they did ( teaching , lecturing , theorizing , media of all kinds , creativity of all stripes ) , and they were becoming , perish the thought , Successful . |
| 26 | I shall not forget my visit that year with the first National Union of students delegation to the USSR , and limping out of our aircraft at Vilna in Poland into the great reception area . |
| 27 | In fact I do n't know what made me think he was that way in the first place — unless it was you , of course , leading me off the trail ! |
| 28 | She picked up her bag and followed him out to his car , hating him for making her feel so gauche , and hating herself more for acting that way in the first place . |
| 29 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 30 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |