Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb pp] [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 | 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 ) . |