Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the western clay plateau at Orwell the number of customary tenants who held yardlands or half-yardlands declined during the first thirty years of the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | Although Stars & Stripes led on the first two legs , America 's speed prevailed . |
| 3 | In particular , Siegel ( 1967 ) found that a close examination of his results led to the conclusion ( see also Riley 1968 ) that it was unwarranted to assume that responses learned in the first stage could not be the source of the transfer seen in the second . |
| 4 | Ernest Kombo , speaker of the transitional legislature , the Higher Council of the Republic ( CSR ) , warned on Sept. 14 , two days before the opening of the CSR 's session , that elections planned for the first half of 1992 might be postponed because a census of the electorate scheduled for mid-September had yet to take place . |
| 5 | Although it would be a mistake to see them as watertight compartments , or to pretend that issues raised in the first were not also relevant to the third , this division is helpful in indicating broad trends and key differences , which will be explored in the sections which follow . |
| 6 | Many of the tales and sketches included in the First and Second Series were extensively revised , and sometimes retitled , from their first periodical appearance . |
| 7 | It is thus possible , indeed common , for each of two rival lineages to claim , as the British and Germans did in the First World War , that ‘ God is on our side ’ . |
| 8 | If reserves play in the first team they still charge first team prices . |
| 9 | After the violent conditions that erm we think occurred in the early life of the earth and injected energy and churned up the atmosphere and formed the prebiotic molecules , we find that just those same molecules are actually in the clouds in space , and these clouds are the basic raw material from which stars and plants form in the first place , so we might ask the question could they have got into the earth 's atmosphere without this intermediate process , and I think there are mechanisms whereby these molecules can accrete into the earth 's atmosphere , and it certainly suggests that we should look at thse and certainly not be taken as a foregone conclusion that the Uray/Miller experiments are the only mechanism whereby the prebiotic soup was formed . |
| 10 | History in the making at Barbados : West Indian and South African players and officials meet for the first time in a Test match . |
| 11 | The independence of the people 's committees was not ultimately compatible with communist rule in north Korea and problems occurred in the first few months of communist dominance . |
| 12 | With the widespread translation of Early Irish stories into English around the turn of the century a younger generation of Irishmen and women discovered for the first time a fresh and potent source of images to define their sense of nationality . |
| 13 | On Feb. 14 , however , Nichol met representatives of the Association of Chief Ambulance Officers , and on Feb. 20 management and unions met for the first time since October in a session with the Advisory , Conciliation and Arbitration Service ( ACAS ) . |
| 14 | All telescopes and binoculars swivelled at the first shout of ‘ Merlin ! ’ and trained on the dashing raptor . |
| 15 | The broadcasting ‘ liberalization ’ phase under ‘ Chaban ’ had ended : the broadcasting law of July 1972 had distinguished between the state monopoly of radio and television broadcasting and the public organization ( ORTF ( entrusted with the monopoly ; the same law increased — on paper — the autonomy of ORTF and the powers of the ‘ MD ’ who became in addition chairman of the board of directors ( 'PDG' ) ; but conflicts arose between the first ‘ PDG ’ , Arthur Conte , and the Information Minister , Philippe Malaud . |
| 16 | While competitors sparkled in the first half , the Sussex-based cidermaker 's profits trickled down from £1.1m to £1.07m . |
| 17 | Meanwhile as hospitals wait for the first evacuees … surgeons say they 'll work for nothing to save the sight of a ten year old bosnian boyu . |