Example sentences of "that [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That about the first weekend .
2 If we represent these facts in mathematical form we would say that for the first state ( let us denote it by
3 The point is , that for the first time in decades , the environmentalists have a powerful voice — and a Government which claims to listen .
4 It was that for the first time something illogical had crept into her world .
5 The significance was not that a testator 's intentions were allowed to play more freely , but that for the first time the law was dealing with an open rather than a closed system , a system that offered unlimited possibilities for expansion .
6 I do n't know whether it affects anyone else but what happened to me was that for the first time in my adult life I began to feel part of a community .
7 What was new in Althusser was that for the first time this epistemological tradition was developed for a Marxism .
8 It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ …
9 They believe it will mean that for the first time in El Salvador 's history , there will be genuine political freedom .
10 He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass .
11 Only out on the water with Pedro panting in the prow had she dared to admit that for the first time in her life she had felt herself a prisoner at the Hall .
12 Does he also admit that for the first time in the history of the national health service , waiting lists for day patients and in-patients combined have risen above 900,000 people ?
13 It is true , of course , that for the first time in 75 years , Russia now has in place the mechanisms of national democracy — a government whose president has been elected and a parliament able to enforce , by argument and voting , restraints on what the government does , as well as a constitutional court .
14 And I think a significant point is that for the first time in ninety three we were likely to take something in , in relation to B Sky B.
15 It appears that a reworded criterion : " can represent a given decimal number on a number line to one decimal place " would have yielded a success rate of 75 per cent , about the same as that for the first item .
16 I 'm not certain , I 'm not a great expert on it , but erm , the situation seems to be , that after the First World War , the central power was Germany and Austria , were defeated .
17 No retro-bolting should take place without a common consensus of opinion , including that of the first ascentionists .
18 : It can be seen from the first of the above tables that the mean coverage given by the second level ( 8% ) is just over half that of the first level ( 14% ) .
19 The 1949 plan , that of the first year of the two year plan , was fulfilled by industry as a whole by 103 per cent .
20 With astonishing speed , cults such as that of the first martyr , Stephen , spread over the whole Mediterranean world , and , eventually , beyond .
21 Jump instructions could be a fourth group , if the layout of the addressing mode and operand fields differs from that of the first group .
22 The enormous cost of the war — 10 times that of the First World War — created a large Federal government deficit , but the new-found wealth of the country was sufficient to fund it .
23 Our earliest play-text of The Winter 's Tale is that of the First Folio , also of 1623 , and whether this represents a play-text from the missing licensed text or a later version we do not know .
24 If the latter 's optical axis is parallel to that of the first crystal than the beam is totally transmitted , if it is perpendicular to the first optical axis none of the beam gets through .
25 In some words , we can observe a type of stress that is weaker than primary stress but stronger than that of the first syllable of ‘ around ’ , for example in the first syllables of the words ‘ photographic ’ , ‘ anthropology ’ .
26 DUAO was calculated as the difference between the urine H + /creatinine molar ratio of the urine sample collected after basal acid secretion , and that of the first urine sample passed after gastric stimulation .
27 Where the causes are successive and the second defendant 's breach of duty has caused the same damage as that of the first defendant , the but for test will exonerate the second defendant .
28 The difference is that with the first type , the innocent party , though entitled to damages , must still perform his part of the bargain , whereas with a repudiatory breach he may , in addition to claiming damages , regard himself as discharged from his obligations under the contract .
29 Now we have to repeat that with the first team . ’
30 They were like that from the first time I met them . ’
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