Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [vb pp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way around this particular problem would be to adapt the approach recommended by the Canadian Sentencing Commission ( 1997 ) , in which guide-lines are used in the first instance simply to indicate offences for which the presumptive sentence would ( or would normally ) involve a community sanction , and those which would ( or would normally ) involve a custodial penalty . |
| 2 | Foundation skills are acquired in the first five years of life . |
| 3 | If you are sending information to us on a monthly basis , please ensure completed forms are returned by the first day of the month preceding the event ( eg for events taking place in November , information should reach the editor by 1 October ) . |
| 4 | Thus , where all taxes are levied on the first generation ( ) , as assumed by Diamond 11965 ) . |
| 5 | Human existence , for Marx and Engels , occurs in terms of people 's concepts , which are incorporated in their mode of life and their subjective experience , but it is from man 's interaction with nature and from the history of this interaction that these ideas , beliefs , and values are created in the first place . |
| 6 | European eyes are fixed on the first of these figures : public spending that is now shooting through the ceiling set in the EC 's self-denying ordinance of 1988 . |
| 7 | Normally courses in three subjects are taken in the first year and , commonly , these are followed by second courses in at least two of the subjects in the second year . |
| 8 | The basic plan for joint honours is that both subjects are taken in the first and second years ; then , in the third and fourth years selected parts of the honours courses in mathematics and the other subject are taken . |
| 9 | The property is impressively maintained and has well proportioned accommodation on 2 floors , with a superb Kitchen/Breakfast Room with light oak units being a particular feature of the property , 3 good sized Bedrooms are provided on the first floor , whilst , outside is car parking space and Carport with attractive walled and private Garden beyond . |
| 10 | Candidates are registered in the first instance as supervised postgraduate students . |
| 11 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 12 | It is very important that we recognize the possibility of accepting the best features of comprehensive schools while getting rid of the worst , remembering with reasonable humility that the schools were introduced in the first place as experimental , and that all the trial and error may not yet be over . |
| 13 | The housing problems detailed in the TSA report and potential solutions were discussed on the first day . |
| 14 | At the end of the season , three clubs would be relegated from the Premier Division , with only the championship winners being promoted from the First Division . |
| 15 | Serum calcium and albumin concentrations were measured for the first 7 days and at least weekly for 4 weeks after treatment . |
| 16 | During the relaying of this track , the Marton trams operated in a complete circle , returning to Talbot Square via Royal Oak and Lytham Road , while the St. Annes blue cars were diverted for the first time to the Promenade at Talbot Square . |
| 17 | The first multiparty general election since independence in 1975 took place on Nov. 22 , with a second round on Nov. 29 in 34 constituencies where no candidates were elected in the first round . |
| 18 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 19 | Over the millennia , other wrecks and crippled vessels were welded to the first , in whole or in part , or were crashed into place in what became a vast assembly kilometres across and deep . |
| 20 | The right of elderly people to take risks is emphasised in the first national guidelines on restraint in residential care and nursing homes . |
| 21 | The extensive studies on removal and transplantation of the ovaries by Knauer in Vienna ( see Chapter 5 ) appeared in 1900 and the more general concept of hormones or blood-borne chemical messengers was elaborated for the first time by Starling in his Croonian lectures a decade after Beatson 's observations ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 22 | ( One of her brothers was killed in the first . ) |
| 23 | Nevertheless , in the restless whirl of Disney expansion that is itself something akin to a rollercoaster ride , the six Euro Disney hotels , 4500 cast members , golf course and 30 separate attractions are all on schedule for the opening in April and 11 million visitors are expected in the first year alone . |
| 24 | Its component elements are absorbed in the first few years of life largely unconsciously , and later more deliberately by informal and formal learning processes . |
| 25 | Other competition matters are handled in the first place by the Office of Fair Trading , which can , under the Competition Act , seek undertakings from firms to desist from certain anticompetitive practices . |
| 26 | Belt loops were specified for the first time , and the khaki trousers were not to bear branch-coloured leg stripes . |
| 27 | The plates were developed for the first migration in a solvent saturated chamber consisting of chloroform/methanol/ammonium hydrate/water 184:105:7.5:7.5 vol and then dried in cold air . |
| 28 | Though the duties were reduced throughout the first half of the 19th century , they were not finally abolished until 1861 . |
| 29 | Along with the technology came the new scientific breed of brewers , and the skills of brewing chemists , administrators and engineers were harnessed for the first time . |
| 30 | On Feb. 12 some 36 such refugees were returned in the first mandatory repatriation of 1992 . |