Example sentences of "the first [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't you see , as far as I knew , I was the first man ever to be displaced in time , though no doubt the timeslips were now making a regular thing of it . |
| 2 | The output produced consisted of the cost of implementing the proposed grade boundaries in the first year together with estimates of the cost in forthcoming years . |
| 3 | The works on show range in date from the first millenium BC to Oriental and contemporary objects . |
| 4 | An extensive seismic programme will begin in the second half of 1992 with a view to drilling the first exploration well in late 1993 . |
| 5 | An exploration and appraisal programme prepared for 1993/94 involves spudding a well in the JX satellite in November — the first exploration well in the area for some 20 years — and drilling two appraisal wells in the FS and WX satellites early next year . |
| 6 | The second point of considerable interest is that this court case provided the first occasion anywhere in the world where a sign language interpreter was appointed by a court to assist in the questioning of , and providing answers from , a deaf person . |
| 7 | A fine barn lies beyond and the wool room was in the house on the first floor away from the gallery . |
| 8 | Coun Chris Abbott hopes that Langbaurgh Council 's £70,000 budget saving by disregarding the first £10 instead of the normal full pension is a misunderstanding . |
| 9 | If meaning can be derived by participants in the communication then there must be a significatory system operating and it can be analysed at the level of the first order regardless of what the meaning is . |
| 10 | The first generation especially in the history of organised abolitionism could not derive the quality of their commitment from pre-existing norms or groups . |
| 11 | He did the first course anywhere in air pollution meteorology . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On March 26 , 1952 , they signed the agreement now sued upon which has three clauses : ‘ ( 1 ) the husband will pay to the wife for her support and maintenance a weekly sum of One Pound Ten Shillings to be paid every four weeks during the joint lives of the parties so long as the wife shall lead a chaste life the first payment hereunder to be made on the Fifteenth day of April 1952. ( 2 ) The wife will out of the said weekly sum or otherwise support and maintain herself and will indemnify the husband against all debts to be incurred by her and will not in any way at any time hereafter pledge the husband 's credit . |
| 14 | Take the first turning left for Bouzy and look at the formation of vines on your right as you approach the village . |
| 15 | The proportions on the first trip across to the island had been strange — almost no cars , few locals and 2,000 passengers in guernseys with kit bags , carrying damp cardboard boxes of food . |
| 16 | It just it just takes the edge off it so it is a good tip actually it 's just if you 've time beforehand is just even as you were saying producing a thought pattern like this even just doing the first level just in pencil . |
| 17 | You 're not allowed to work on it and er that 's about it really , our programme , we 've decided to er start the pipe at the first position away from the tank construction and we 've , we 've set out , we employed a concrete layer and to lay out the pipes while we 're doing nothing and continue on with the so that while this gang is actually laying there 's only er six people in total . |
| 18 | Well I mean it 's the first position ever of such sort . |
| 19 | We may want to make a dash straight back to Olbia so that we can catch the first ferry across in the morning . ’ |
| 20 | However , this represents the shape of things to come , with the first type increasingly in the ascendancy aided and abetted by the demand for cheap food and the agricultural policies of successive governments aimed at ensuring the expansion of home production . |
| 21 | I watched them decide on the wrong place and paint the first mark carefully round a sapling 's trunk . |
| 22 | They frequently equate the first phoneme only with the graphic display , and then apply configuration and context cues , or merely wild guessing , to the rest of the word . |
| 23 | Take the first sentence only of the implicit example , |
| 24 | ‘ If I knew the answer to that , I 'd be a manager in the First Division instead of a player in the Third . ’ |
| 25 | Leeds United3 , Chelsea0 LEEDS returned to the top of the First Division yesterday with a sudden scoring explosion that masked a deeply unconvincing performance . |
| 26 | This is a fundamental point because if they are merely to be ombudsmen then the emphasis of ensuring regulations have been adhered to and best advice proffered rests in the first instance heavily upon the customer , and it is up to the customer to complain . |
| 27 | Craobh nan Ubhal ( The Apple Tree ) is the first play ever to be written and performed in Gaelic , Doric and English . |
| 28 | Take the first turn left onto Sweden Bridge Lane and branch off this road onto Belle Vue Lane which leads eventually to Nook End Farm ( 0.5 miles ) . |
| 29 | The first survey ever of such tests has found that another 59 companies say they may start testing . |
| 30 | the first romance there of a girl . |