Example sentences of "first [coord] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( d ) Both operands are in accumulators and the result replaces the contents of one of the accumulators , whether the first or the second usually being fixed for a particular computer ( as with two-address instructions ) . |
| 2 | In none of these cases does either the first or the second element qualify as a semantic constituent : |
| 3 | I think it 's the around about the first or the second of April . |
| 4 | Here the choice is still simple : either the first or the second syllable will be stressed — not both . |
| 5 | Second song , first first or the second side . |
| 6 | His classmates started , started to curse erm to curse him and to humiliate him I think from the first or the second grade , and erm he was my friend , I had to , to fight for him . |
| 7 | It would not be the first or the last time . |
| 8 | As the view from its windows alters at sunset ‘ into a distant phantom ’ , so too will the house , ‘ not the first or the last of beautiful things that look so near and will so change ’ . |
| 9 | not the first or the fourth it must have been one of those in the middle , but I 'm not sure which one it was . |
| 10 | C : Aye , not the first nor the last you caused , neither . |
| 11 | Although John Locke was neither the first nor the last philosopher to address a problem which artists and aestheticians as well as other philosophers constantly must face , he exerted a telling influence on its history . |
| 12 | Between the first and the second DPQ over three-quarters of the participants either reduced to ( 72 per cent ) or remained at ( six per cent ) a medium or low level of risk . |
| 13 | The Munich version was finished first and the second ‘ Venus ’ , destined for Florence , was deliberately improved on by Canova , which makes this a key point of comparison for scholars who have debated whether later versions of the marble compositions were not in fact merely copies . |
| 14 | It is not easy to distinguish between the first and the second categories : Reynolds could well have belonged to both . |
| 15 | So the payment increased on average by 75% between the first and the second repetition , while the group payments rose from 93% to 108% ( of an individual payment ) between the first and second repetition clear evidence of a learning effect and slight evidence of a group effect . |
| 16 | Note the improvement ( though still to a high level ) in and the more modest improvement in between the first and the second repetitions . |
| 17 | It does n't look very good , having erm , first and the second name without a space between the two , but I can actually put a space there if we entered a formula , by putting a double quote space , another double quote , and then another ampersand , filling the spaces of D six . |
| 18 | Student 's t test was used to compare mean difference ( D ) between the first and the second biopsy labelling indices in relapsing and non-relapsing patients . |
| 19 | Owen Pickard got the first and the second came from Howard Clark … the comeback came too late … 3-2 to Preston |
| 20 | So that 's , and later on when you get to level two you can sometimes do the first and the second |
| 21 | Well the working in the pit and the first and the first time I went down the pit er the pit was er John Watson 's number four colliery in Motherwell . |
| 22 | Though accepting both the first and the third , the philosophically unsophisticated would reject the second . |
| 23 | The second cleavage is at right angles to the first and the third again at right angles . |
| 24 | In the earlier years , however , it was the first and the third that he most tended to emphasise — the otherness of God , and the impossibility of climbing up to true knowledge of him by our own efforts — so that even today his thought is widely interpreted as essentially negative , as circling ever around God 's ‘ No ! ’ to human presumption . |
| 25 | Mira herself makes several appearances , both in the first and the third persons , before also discovering that her name is on the list as the delegate from Amalgamemnon , whereupon she too ‘ dies ’ . |
| 26 | In the first and the third of these phases , roles and statuses are carefully distinguished ; in the second they are confused , " we " and " they " are mixed up , behaviour which would be outrageous in ordinary life becomes normal and even obligatory . |
| 27 | What some writers now term the ‘ widening gap ’ between the rich and the poor , both within countries and between the First and the Third Worlds , might tempt us to subscribe pessimistically to the view that the countries of the Third World are passive victims of the exercise of First World hegemon countries ' power . |
| 28 | The spread of the TNCs has brought significant changes to the sexual division of labour in both the First and the Third World . |
| 29 | This has been obscured because the connection between accumulation in the national context and the growth of the transnational capitalist class has been rather different in the First and the Third ( and also now the Second ) Worlds for a variety of reasons , of which corruption is one . |
| 30 | In Chapter 3 , for example , the first and the third , strict logic and comprehensiveness , were applied four times , ( pp. 27 – 9 , 30 – 1 , 32 – 3 , 35 ) and the second , explainability , once ( p. 27 – 8 ) and the eighth , beneficial consequences , once ( p. 31 ) . |