Example sentences of "[verb] that [det] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the same writer lamented that some of the first students ‘ in many cases alienated the more thoughtful minds from the denomination ’ . |
| 2 | He recognised that many of the first and second generation of industrial urbanites were morally and socially disorientated — in a state of anomie or normlessness ( a sort of perpetual culture shock ) . |
| 3 | I soon discovered that those in the first group had a poise and confidence that the rest of us did not . |
| 4 | The fiction was planned in three or four parts and I assume that most of the first and second parts was incorporated into The Childhood , the initial manuscript of which is in a notebook identical with the extant one , fiction II ‘ begun 12. iii . |
| 5 | On examination , it appears that some of the first papers were published in specialist journals , none of which appears in the highly-ranked journal set . |