Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chairman , Sir Ernest Harrison , promised that the first half loss would be reversed in the second half , but pressure on margins is not going to go away . |
| 2 | Benn promised that the first thing he would do when returning home would be to go straight to see Michael Watson . |
| 3 | It will be recalled that Thales , the first Greek philosopher , was Ionian , and he maintained that the first principle ( arche ) of all things is water . |
| 4 | In a famous library somebody found that the first two volumes had vanished . |
| 5 | Mendel crossed tall peas with short peas and found that the first generation were always tall . |
| 6 | Although the government reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and equipment , the cost is so far proving light for Mr Average . |
| 7 | Secretary reported that the first set of four photographs had proved to be very popular and sales to date had covered costs . |
| 8 | Radio Cotonou reported that the first round took place " in a calm and serious atmosphere " . |
| 9 | Russian radio reported that the first group of 14th Army troops had left Moldova on May 26 , and that airborne units stationed in Kishinev would withdraw between June 15 and Sept. 1 . |
| 10 | Erm now erm as regards when it happens to people erm , again going back to this B B C Childwatch Survey um of girls sixty percent reported that the first incident happened when they were ten , forty percent of boys reported the first incident occurred when they were under ten so it seems , if you look at the sort of average , averages are quite deceptive in this area but nevertheless if you look at the average um it seems to happen slightly earlier for girls than for boys . |
| 11 | ‘ What 's up Jackie , ’ Yanto shouted as the first boy jumped the fence into the pub yard . |
| 12 | Charles Wright , Director of Admiralty Scientific Research , prophesied that the first country to develop such a device would win the war . |
| 13 | After the battering the team had taken in Australia , he realized that the first job was to restore morale , and he did manage to instil some of his own determination into his players . |
| 14 | Er , first of all may I give my sincere and abject apology for not being here to chair the Garrick 's A G M , this is due to a longstanding appointment made before I realized that the first Thursday in December is traditionally the day for the A G M. |
| 15 | It was all too late for the ILTF , however , which , in 1962 , announced that the first Federation Cup would take place at Queen 's Club in June 1963 . |
| 16 | As the search began in January 1989 for 12 people who had never watched his testimony to sit as a jury at North 's trial , one cartoonist imagined it would have to be composed of mujahedin from Afghanistan ; a satirist announced that the first two jurors selected were Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling , the pandas from Washington Zoo . |
| 17 | Nehru , having accepted Commonwealth membership , was content to pay Mountbatten the compliment ; Jinnah announced that the first Governor-General of Pakistan would be himself . |
| 18 | She announced that the first meeting of the Friends will be held on 13th November ( further details in the Calendar ) , and she stressed that all members of staff will be particularly welcome at all Friends meetings . |
| 19 | In 1975 , Mr Heath , as Leader , accepted amended rules which had been drawn up under Lord Home 's chairmanship and announced that the first ballot would be held on 4 February 1975 ( the Party , of course , then being in opposition ) . |
| 20 | Chairman , thank , thank you very much indeed erm Chairman , I will in fact and er perhaps if I read that in the first instance I have n't circulated it erm if I read that the first instance it will set the of what I have to say . |
| 21 | But the new Queen 's champion admitted that the first meeting ever between the two players dominated by heavy serves and containing few spectacular winners was a poor spectacle for a 6,000 crowd which included Princess Diana . |
| 22 | Ornithologists gave the bird a Christian foundation and believed that the first mute swans were brought to Great Britain by the Crusaders from Cyprus in 1192 . |
| 23 | Why should the first use of ‘ Here ’ bask in the reflected glory of the second , granted that the first serves to inform others of my whereabouts only in virtue of their being able to locate sounds ? |
| 24 | At six o'clock everyone assembled for dinner and Mr Priddy signalled that the first course could be taken in , a heavy tureen of mock turtle soup which was to be served from a side table . |
| 25 | ISS assumed that the first three years would continue with a broad curriculum and would include subjects ( such as home economics ) which at present few schools consider to be compulsory in the fourth and fifth years . |
| 26 | We noticed that the first speaker , Susan did not use the JC vowel in STRUT words [ P3 ] . |
| 27 | It so happened that the first person to come a cropper on the steps was the warden Jane Cartwright , who was a good deal younger and more agile than those in her care . |
| 28 | However , it happened that the first audio typist in Britain was a woman , Mary Ferguson , who was governess to the children of Colonel Gouraud , Edison 's representative in Britain . |
| 29 | Though sites around the Scottish coast could be used for any plans by oil companies to adopt the technique for UK waters , he predicted that the first deep-water application of the method would be in the Norwegian sector and Brazilian waters . |
| 30 | Investigations by S. E. Winbolt showed that the first two had small rectangular enclosures of about three acres and these are so like the burgi on Watling Street that it is not impossible that they represent part of the fortified system established by Constantius Chlorus , although the dating evidence indicates an earlier origin . |