Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether , I have enjoyed the first day more than I anticipated . |
| 2 | Ola Barthelsson was the first man home so the Sailing Challenge was set to be an all Swedish affair . |
| 3 | With £400 to the first man home and £300 to the first lady and considerable training grants throughout , Lisburn looks sure to turn up trumps once again . |
| 4 | The Dutch government is introducing tax incentives for companies which buy electric vehicles : they will be allowed to depreciate them faster than conventional vehicles , setting the entire cost against tax in the first year rather than spreading it over five years . |
| 5 | In Dundee in the first year more than 2,000 students applied to the access fund and more than £300,000 was allocated to them . |
| 6 | More than 50,000 passengers used Braathens services in the first year more than double the airline 's predictions . |
| 7 | Perhaps physical geography has been overtly concerned with the parallel to the first law rather than proceeding to the equivalent of the other three ! |
| 8 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 9 | Following the first leg little or nothing separates the two teams . |
| 10 | One hundred and eighteen for three , which means thirty-nine runs added in the first hour today and it 's Tufnell coming up now to bowl , DaSilva , up he comes , bowls this one , DaSilva pushes forward and it just goes under the bat and fielded there by the wicketkeeper , no run . |
| 11 | That is , the relevance of the reformulation lies in the way it constrains the interpretation of the first segment so that it matches Carver 's own initial impressions . |
| 12 | The Pompeian house does , of course , only depict the Roman home of up to the first century A.D. and in later years , as can be seen at Ostia , the plan was developed . |
| 13 | These finely sculptured stele date to around the first century AD and the biggest is the largest single stone ever worked on by man . |
| 14 | The bridge was constructed in the first century BC and is attributed to Trajan . |
| 15 | The Roman system of dating ab urbe condita ( i.e. from the foundation of Rome ) was introduced by Varro in the first century BC and was based on the date assigned to the fabled founding of the city . |
| 16 | Many were , indeed , buried during the Hannibalic War or the civil wars after 49BC , when much of the fighting took place in Italy , but many other hoards were buried at times during the first century BC when there was no fighting there . |
| 17 | If one enters this part of the town from the west , past the Roman amphitheatre which fell on evil days in the Middle Ages when theatrical spectacles were banned — but has now revived its ancient beauty and a part of its function , as a setting for Aida and her kin — the road leads through a Roman gate , perfectly preserved , into the ancient grid of streets , laid down by Roman town planners in the first century B.C. and little altered . |
| 18 | But , in my personal experience in America , not so much Korea , certainly Japan , erm , the , the first question invariably that you 're asked is communication . |
| 19 | Oh and his wife 's got the first name too and the name of the his wife too and then you begin to you begin to put a few equations together . |
| 20 | He agreed to do the first voyage there and back before receiving payment , as long as Ralemberg agreed to underwrite the voyage , using his house as collateral . |
| 21 | Naturally enough , the latter group interpreted the first sentence appropriately but were unable to report what they heard through the unattended channel . |
| 22 | Okay but we have plenty more goals around the First Division yesterday and you 'll be able to see those in a couple of moments . |
| 23 | Monthly mailings are no use at all , and ideas are needed in the first instance rather than completed material . |
| 24 | Place the second panel , right side down , on to the edge of the first panel so that their two cut edges line up . |
| 25 | No I backed the first winner today and that got me out of trouble . |
| 26 | As anticipated , London W1-based software systems and consultancy Logica Plc avoided heavy losses but failed to ‘ bounce back ’ in a big way during the first half mainly because of its patchy performance . |
| 27 | BP fired the first salvo yesterday and chairman Robert Horton has arranged to see Chancellor Norman Lamont to try to assess the prospects for change . |
| 28 | You have n't even got over the first hurdle yet and you 're ready to quit ! |
| 29 | I could n't get to the first part again and yeah that 's right |
| 30 | In hexagonal close packing , a second layer sits on top of the first layer so that each sphere in the second layer is in contact with three spheres of the first layer ( see figure 3.22 ) . |