Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifteen ( 83 per cent ) of the older children assisted in the first assessment as did 23 ( 77 per cent ) parents , foster parents and residential workers . |
| 2 | In Perth , a sixth-wicket partnership of 136 between Martin Crowe ( 87 ) and John Bracewell ( 86 ) lifted New Zealand to 271 for seven on the first day after they slumped to 97 for five against Western Australia . |
| 3 | The first year after I moved in I found snails , morning after morning , an infantry of them , silvering across the damp lawn . |
| 4 | Forty-eight hours after the Novell-buys-Unix announcement , Microsoft was out telling folks like The Wall Street Journal that it would sell more than a million copies of Windows NT the first year after it comes out . |
| 5 | Although a fall in numbers occurred in the first year after charges were introduced , that was largely due to the building works , but the figures have increased and Welsh men are looking forward enormously to the addition to their national museum . |
| 6 | The mean height increment during the first year after diagnosis was 4.4 ( 2.3 ) cm . |
| 7 | Height velocity in the first year after operation increased dramatically compared with year before operation among patients with growth potential . |
| 8 | The H pylori reinfection rate in the first year after eradication was 6.25% ( two of 32 patients ) . |
| 9 | And so quite a big job has been cutting reeds back around the islands and the banks , and also we 've had what they call blooms of blanketweed , not so much recently but , apparently it 's more common with new ponds and I had a tremendous bloom of blanketweed the first year after I made it . |
| 10 | This was the first year since he became leader of his party six years ago that Mr Kinnock was relieved of his preoccupation with an ungovernable party and was able to turn his attention properly to the government of the country . |
| 11 | The US-Canada free trade accord came under severe political scrutiny in the first year since its ratification [ see p. 36426 ] . |
| 12 | This is the first year since Greenpeace 's foundation 21 years ago in which contributions — all of which come from individuals — have failed to rise . |
| 13 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 14 | That five thousand per annum figure is a guaranteed figure , we could in fact print seven thousand in the first year if they wanted . |
| 15 | Even with such a drastic cut , we estimated our losses for the first year as being in the region of £148,000 . |
| 16 | Pesticide use was reduced by 65 per cent in the first year whilst crop yields increased . |
| 17 | The thickness does not decrease linearly , but follows an exponential curve , with the thickness decreasing much more over the first kilometre than the second , and so on . |
| 18 | I hate doing that , drives me up the wall the first bit cos I 've got all them houses in the first bit have n't I ? |
| 19 | Their inspired utterances , which were cast in the first person as direct statements by the Paraclete , were collected . |
| 20 | Dutch settlers planted the first vineyard when they arrived in 1652 . |
| 21 | While celebrating the first occasion since the Spanish occupation of 1571 on which foreign troops had not been based in the Philippines , the country 's President , Fidel Ramos , expressed the hope that his country could develop " even stronger ties with the USA " following the withdrawal . |
| 22 | That was the first occasion when I saw my exercising as an irritating use of time , because it got in the way of our friendship . |
| 23 | This was the first occasion when I experienced the disillusion of actually seeing a place I had come to love through a poem — that had been , in Drinkwater 's phrase , ‘ lissom in a dream ’ . |
| 24 | The Big Bang may have encouraged a greater familiarity among companies with search firms , simply because it was the first occasion when they had called on their services , often reluctantly and as a last resort . |
| 25 | This is the first occasion when one of Palazzo Grassi 's exhibitions has been so closely linked with a Venetian public institution . |
| 26 | It is also important because , as the coordinator of the exhibition , the Soprintendente Giovanna Nepi Sciré said , ‘ This is the first occasion when one of Palazzo Grassi 's [ owned and administered by Fiat ] exhibitions has been so closely linked to Venetian public institutions . |
| 27 | The plaintiff objected to paying the tolls , and on the first occasion when he did so the owner seized his goods . |
| 28 | I had never been a member of the Labour Party , and on the first occasion when I could claim a vote I voted for the Liberal candidate in the Hampstead constituency . |
| 29 | It is tempting to see this as the first occasion when the judges insisted on independence on this principle . |
| 30 | just remind members by er , way of introduction that this is the the first occasion when the external auditor has been er invited to answer questions and make points on the management er er , letter to the full committee . |