Example sentences of "from the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 2 | A head is all that part of a tone-unit that extends from the first stressed syllable up to ( but not including ) the tonic syllable . |
| 3 | The head was defined in the last chapter as ‘ all that part of a tone-unit that extends from the first stressed syllable up to , but not including , the tonic syllable ’ . |
| 4 | Sellafield 's Assistant Director , Projects and Decommissioning , , presented the prizes and paid tribute to organisers who had worked tirelessly from the first tee-off at 7.30 am to the presentation of the final raffle prize at 10.30 pm . |
| 5 | It emerged from the First Annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries in the USA in 1971 , and became a working reality as Project LOEX in 1972 . |
| 6 | The adoral shields are long and slightly flared distally , separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 7 | The adoral shields are long and narrow , flared distally so that they separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 8 | The adoral shields are wing-like often completely separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 9 | The adoral shields are flared and wing-like separating or nearly separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 10 | The adoral shields are about twice as long as broad not particularly wing-like and not separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 11 | The adoral shields are long and thin and barely separating , if at all , the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 12 | The adoral shields are longer than broad separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 13 | The adoral shields are large but do not separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 14 | The adoral shields are long and narrow and do not separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 15 | The adoral shields are slightly convex ; they do not separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 16 | The adoral shields are wide and distinctly wing-like , separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 17 | The adoral shields are large with lateral projections making them appear wing-like ; they separate or appear to separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 18 | This species is very similar to O. simulans but differs in the following respects : it appears to reach a much larger size ; the spinelets of the disk are less elaborate and have fewer points to the crown ; the shape of the oral shield differs and is depressed in O. aculeata ; the adoral shields are more wing-like and separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; the arm spines are less rugose particularly the proximal ventral spines ; and finally the ventral most arm spine is not so distinctly sabre shaped as in O. simulans . |
| 19 | The adoral shields are large prominent about twice as long as broad and only just separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 20 | The adoral shields are large , slightly convex and situated totally proximal to the oral shield not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 21 | The adoral shields are nearly rectangular and situated almost entirely proximal to the oral shield not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 22 | The adoral shields are short , rectangular in shape , they do not or only just separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 23 | The adoral shields are about 2–3 times as long as broad , wing-like , nor separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 24 | The adoral shields are large , wing-like , and do not separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 25 | They lie proximal to the oral shield and not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 26 | The adoral shields are short slightly larger than wide with the proximal edge at nearly right angles to the jaw : they do not separate the oral shields from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 27 | The adoral shields are larger about twice as long as broad , slightly curved , and do not separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 28 | The adoral shields are large , swollen , slightly curved and not separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 29 | The adoral shields are large , about twice as long as broad , and do not separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 30 | The adoral shields are about twice as broad as long and are wing-like separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |