Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even before 1905 , a solidly-based mass press had come into being , and in the last decade of the Empire there was an explosion in the publication of newspapers , while the number of books appearing more than trebled in the first decade and a half of the century . |
| 2 | In discussing the interactions of mental illnesses and brain failure Gray and Isaacs ( 1979 ) showed that illnesses such as depression , psychosis and neurosis do continue to occur in old age but are more likely to recur than appear for the first time . |
| 3 | ‘ we are persuaded that , there being no authority to prevent us , it is preferable as a matter of justice to hold parties to their clearly expressed bargain rather than to introduce for the first time in 1971 an extension of a doctrine of land law so as to deny the efficacy of that bargain . |
| 4 | His true value would have been far more appreciated if introduced in the first place to more mature minds . |
| 5 | She flushed and hesitated , as if realizing for the first time where all this was leading . |
| 6 | When stopped for the first offence , he claimed the cruise control on his BMW was set at 98mph . |
| 7 | If these do not yield results which support the hypothesis , it may either be because the experiments were ineffectively designed , in which case the researcher will - design some more , or because the hypothesis was invalid as formulated in the first place , in which case the researcher will reformulate it , and then work out what new experiments are needed to test it . |
| 8 | The metabolic clearance rate of G17 was 8 ( 6–93 ) before and 8 ( 6–76 ) ml/kg.min after treatment when calculated by the first method and 9 ( 6–74 ) and 8 ( 6–62 ) ml/kg.min respectively by the second method . |
| 9 | This estimate of classical unemployment , when added to the first estimate of natural unemployment , will determine the magnitude of the Keynesian component of observed unemployment . |
| 10 | This is also the first thing we can tell about a person when meeting for the first time . |
| 11 | We reach this conclusion in the light of the evidence that notwithstanding the rules as to dismissal for theft as applied in the first place … each case can be and is reviewed on the intervention of the security officer who … will make an appropriate recommendation where the case does not warrant dismissal . ’ |
| 12 | This measurement may , therefore , be of clinical value in the assessment of a patient with impaired renal function when seen for the first time . |
| 13 | He himself claimed to have been present at the battle of the Boyne , as a private soldier in King William 's army ; later he deserted from the Royal Regiment of Dragoons ( Scots Greys ) when serving under the first Duke of Marlborough [ q.v. ] in Flanders . |
| 14 | The reduced weighting of standardised mortality ratio in the final formula resulted in a shift in resources from the regions with higher premature mortality ( predominantly in the north ) to those with lower premature mortality ( mainly in the south east ) as shown in the first column of the table . |
| 15 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 16 | If he moves into an enemy then he is engaged in hand-to-hand combat and must fight in the following hand-to-hand combat round ( he counts as charging in the first round as is also the case with magically induced movement ) . |
| 17 | The Bridge of Ice may be used to move friendly troops into hand-to-hand combat , in which case they may fight from the following combat round and count as charging in the first round . |
| 18 | The match seemed as good as settled by the first evening . |
| 19 | When introduced for the first time , technical terms can be helpfully identified by having inverted commas round them . |
| 20 | So the first defendant was entitled to ‘ all costs charges and expenses … on a full indemnity basis ’ and the receivers were entitled to retain out of the mortgaged property their remuneration as fixed by the first defendant . |
| 21 | As indicated in the first chapter , there has evolved during relatively recent times a " traditional " listing of Muftis , the tradition beginning essentially with Mustakimzade and reaching perhaps definitive expression in the widely-used the equally widely-used chronological history by Danismend , and , more recently , Altunsu 's In respect at least of the origins of the institution this tradition has triumphed over another of some antiquity , advanced by Katib Celebi and followed by Hezarfen and the western authors d'Ohsson and Hammer , which names Hizir Bey ( d. 863/1459 ) , the first kadi of Istanbul , as the first Seyhulislam and which differs in several other respects from the now-accepted account of the succession of fifteenth-century Muftis . |
| 22 | They are not illustrated here , because the nature and extent of digestion are the same as illustrated for the first category . |
| 23 | As illustrated in the first chapter , formal community care services are provided by a variety of different agencies . |
| 24 | With handwriting , there are similar problems concerning the identification of letter boundaries , as illustrated in the first example ( ’ cl ’ and ’ d ’ can be easily confused ) . |
| 25 | As illustrated by the first patient , recovery from arsenical neuropathy is generally poor , even after treatment with chelating agents . |
| 26 | The United States would probably have reverted to isolationism as happened after the First World War ; Congress would have cut back Defence spending , starving the US defence/industrial base ; and American big business would have looked elsewhere for profitable enterprises . |
| 27 | But in order for means to be classified as means in the first place they have to be something that we can utilize . |
| 28 | The rule for pre-trading expenditure which deems such capital expenditure as incurred on the first day of trading will not apply in determining whether the expenditure was incurred in the year ending 31 October 1993 . |
| 29 | Unfortunately these two categories overlap , whilst those temporary workers ( or those who are giving proxy answers for them ) who are unsure of the precise nature of their temporary employment are also more likely to describe themselves as falling into the first category . |
| 30 | Suffice it to say here that a payment which is large in relation to salary is unlikely to be viewed as falling within the first category . |