Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 2 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
| 3 | The age distribution of known opioid users was similar to that found in the first survey , with 69 per cent being aged between 16 and 24 years ( compared to 75 per cent in 1984–5 ) . |
| 4 | The first point is that , of the five people generally named in any discussion of the generation gap theory , four are Free Presbyterians , which is a similar concentration to that found in the first generation of Paisley activists . |
| 5 | Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob . |
| 6 | All this occurred during the first months of the Awlad Amira administration , while Mannaia still smarted from electoral defeat ; and at that time some lineages did not exclude the possibility of further Tibbu reprisals after the earlier fighting and homicides . |
| 7 | When this occurred in the first organisms on earth , evolution began , for such mistakes in copying are the source of variations from which natural selection can produce evolutionary change . |
| 8 | This happens in the First World as well as in the Third World . |
| 9 | Some die at the first hint of frost ; others , for example the damp-living larvae of chironomid midges , can be subjected repeatedly to temperatures of -20°C and below , with up to 90% of their body water frozen , and recover completely on thawing ( Scholander et al , 1953 ) . |
| 10 | This is a concept relatively new to English company law having been introduced by section 9 of the European Communities Act 1972 to comply with the First Company Law Directive . |
| 11 | This instigated for the first time the right of appellation in the form of the Appellation d'Origine Controlée ( AOC ) and regulations were imposed including a cunning proviso which dumped the entire issue of the Aube wines and the controversial ‘ Champagne Deuxième Zone ’ firmly in the lap of the judiciary . |
| 12 | Eight hours after injection , integrated postprandial CCK release was not significantly different compared with the first measurement , without treatment ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 13 | She 'd never retire ; but she could fix up the house , put in some extra loos and bathrooms , have the kitchen completely refitted — get her business on a sound footing for the first time in her life . |
| 14 | The quality of consular services was improved in a number of cases , notably in Britain where a departmental committee of 1903 introduced for the first time recruitment of consuls by limited competition ( instead of as hitherto purely by nomination of the secretary of state for foreign affairs ) and a rationalised salary structure . |
| 15 | CHESTER-based Paul Affleck and South African Ian Palmer both joined Ian Woosnam on the 67 mark in the first round of the Honda Open in Hamburg yesterday . |
| 16 | Aegean civilization , as this appeared during the first half of the second millennium B.C. , was sufficiently sure of its own identity to engage in traffic with the older ones of south-west Asia and the Nile Valley . |
| 17 | The judge in the later case finds some relevant fact in that case of sufficient importance to justify a different approach from that adopted in the first decision . |
| 18 | ‘ The Collector ’ is arranged in three parts , each told in the first person by Clegg , Miranda , then Clegg again . |
| 19 | Cork 's late strike made sure of a top 10 place for the first time since promotion — ‘ and a nice bonus , judging from the long faces in our boardroom , ’ grinned Mr Bassett . |
| 20 | Postage and paperwork is a waster of the Association 's valuable resources which the membership does so much to create in the first place . |
| 21 | From this position he could not expect to be prominent going to the first bend , the clubhouse turn , and Shoemaker held him back in about eighth place , some four horses out from the rails , as the runners came past the stands . |
| 22 | It was relatively easy to do in the first years of the regime , with a war- and hunger-cowed populace , a subsistence-level economy , and a country cut off from the outside world . |
| 23 | An invoice raised in April 1991 related to the first stage of contract payment on a verbal order given by the customer in March 1991 , ie the first payment was due from the customer on approval of the order . |
| 24 | In 1976 , unemployment in Britain passed the one-million mark for the first time since the Second World War . |
| 25 | Impossible to say of the first move , it was her will , and not to extend that to what followed , or reason is gone mad . ’ |
| 26 | The recent publication of all known speeches and writings of Hitler between 1919 and 1924 provides for the first time an opportunity to observe the self-image profiled in his public statements . |
| 27 | Midiscan for Windows is due to ship in the first week of July , with Macintosh and Atari versions following next year . |
| 28 | Opener Atherton was due to play in the first Test at Calcutta before being forced out on the morning of the match because of illness . |
| 29 | These men supplied many of the first generation of Russian permanent representatives in western Europe : of the twelve of these accredited in the first decade of the eighteenth century five had been members of the group of students sent to Venice in 1697 . |
| 30 | Why do they think trains are so hard to spot in the first place ? |