Example sentences of "first [vb -s] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first automates the exchange of data between central site and office automation applications . |
| 2 | The first involves the use of sprinklers mounted in the face of the rack , and the second the use of horizontal barriers within the rack to delay the upward spread of flame . |
| 3 | The first involves the use of the Command Line Interpreter and the second used the BBCBASIC(Z80) command , PRINT# . |
| 4 | The first has the advantage of producing particularly strong contrast , but at the cost of a sometimes inconveniently large density increase . |
| 5 | Of these two approaches , the first has the virtue of identifying differences of ideology which were unquestionably important to some members of each right-wing party and were later to influence the internal politics of the Franco regime . |
| 6 | The first has the effect of moving the cusp towards the back edge of the catastrophe surface . |
| 7 | The first exposes the limitations of modern medical practice , often exposing its claims to scientific status as dubious . |
| 8 | The first describes the forms of English , spoken and written , at various levels from individual letters or sounds to connected discourse . |
| 9 | We have tried to create a centre which first meets the needs of the city , but which can also assume a national role . |
| 10 | The first includes the pavements of Woodchester , Stonesfield , Barton Farm and probably the Seasons mosaic of Chedworth . |
| 11 | Marriage tables ( analagous to life tables ) can be constructed showing , as might be expected , that advancing age first increases the chance of an imminent marriage but is finally an unfavourable factor . |
| 12 | The first concerns the pretensions of the theory itself . |
| 13 | The first concerns the issue of self-management by workers and peasants . |
| 14 | The first concerns the protection of the individual , which is a matter for the Home Secretary , and the second concerns the state of Anglo-Iranian relations . |
| 15 | The first concerns the structure of the snowball sample itself in which the 60 interviewees were evenly distributed between four ‘ representative ’ townships , 15 from each . |
| 16 | The first concerns the interchange of " k " and " q " ( Qashga'i or Kashga'i , or even Kashgay ) . |
| 17 | The first concerns the definition of confidential information . |
| 18 | The first concerns the metallicity of the gas , the abundance of elements heavier than lithium . |
| 19 | The first concerns the appearance of the famous Temple of Diana at Ephesus , one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ( fig. 12 ) . |
| 20 | The first concerns the application of knowledge : |
| 21 | The first concerns the reign of King John , whose monarchy dates from his coronation on Ascension Day 1199 . |
| 22 | The first concerns the effect of the company 's employment of debt on its share price and the second is the relevance of dividend payments . |
| 23 | It appears that , despite the way he first introduces the topic of personal identity , his detailed interest is not so much in what makes a person the same over time , but in the sense one has of oneself , one 's past deeds and actions , and the relation of this to questions of moral praise and blame . |
| 24 | The first requires the subsidence of a whole series of oceanic islands : the second attempts to use the fluctuating sea levels of the Pleistocene , which are well evidenced by all sorts of phenomena , as the explanation of the features of coral reefs . |
| 25 | At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world . |
| 26 | first finds the key of the record found at the beginning of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 27 | The first indicates the range of entries you want to change by filling in only some of the fields . |
| 28 | The aggregate approach , used by the DES , first forecasts the number of qualified school leavers and then multiplies this by the proportion entering HE . |
| 29 | If a manager was addressed by his surname and subordinates by their first names the power of the manager would increase because subordinates are no longer treated as equals . |
| 30 | To test the prediction that the unpredictable component of monetary growth affects real variables , Barro first regresses the level of unemployment on the current and lagged values of his variable and on two other variables which are seen as influencing the natural rate of unemployment . |