Example sentences of "that [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | That about the first weekend . |
| 2 | The point is , that for the first time in decades , the environmentalists have a powerful voice — and a Government which claims to listen . |
| 3 | It was that for the first time something illogical had crept into her world . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The evidence for the second point of view is limited , but certainly stronger than that for the first . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | If we represent these facts in mathematical form we would say that for the first state ( let us denote it by |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | The fourth key point was that for the first two years of the programme , between April 1989 and March 1991 , we committed a budget of £24 million to the programme . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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. |
| 19 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | No retro-bolting should take place without a common consensus of opinion , including that of the first ascentionists . |
| 22 | With astonishing speed , cults such as that of the first martyr , Stephen , spread over the whole Mediterranean world , and , eventually , beyond . |
| 23 | Measurement distortion will occur if the height of the last column is not exactly twice that of the first . |
| 24 | If the last column is more than twice that of the first , then the company 's profit trend will be enhanced ( positive measurement distortion ) . |
| 25 | On the other hand , if the last column is less than twice that of the first , then the company 's profit trend will be understated ( negative measurement distortion ) . |
| 26 | The topology of the molecule , which comprises two immunoglobulin-like domains , is the same as that of the first two domains of CD4 but the relative domain orientation is altered by a fairly flexible linker region . |
| 27 | The 1949 plan , that of the first year of the two year plan , was fulfilled by industry as a whole by 103 per cent . |
| 28 | : 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% ) . |
| 29 | Jump instructions could be a fourth group , if the layout of the addressing mode and operand fields differs from that of the first group . |
| 30 | 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 . |