Example sentences of "[subord] the first [noun sg] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is the score for the bigram transition [ i , j ] ; the second is the index in the trigram matrix where the first trigram transition beginning with [ i , j ] is to be found . |
| 2 | What was decided in regard to the applicant Handscomb was that where the first review date predicated an equivalent determinate sentence well in excess of that which could have been imposed under established sentencing practice , there was impugnable unreasonableness . |
| 3 | For species actually to act with a sense of past and future history would be a far more radical departure than the first land creature crawling out of the sea . |
| 4 | He added that the phenol compounds were imported from Germany until the First World War cut off the supplies , whereupon Edison almost singlehandedly founded the US plastics industry . |
| 5 | But the first shake-up since the First World War does mean a deep-seated reform in the principle behind the choice of names in the Birthday and New Year Honours lists . |
| 6 | Never since the first world war have we had homeless teenage children begging in the streets . |
| 7 | It is nearly a year since the meeting which led to the setting-up of the Network and six months since the first registration forms went out . |
| 8 | But the two ‘ warriors ’ explain that ever since the first Earth party came to the Sense-Sphere years ago , repaying kindness with treachery in a bid to seize control of the planet 's rich stocks of the metal molybdenum , all humans are now made permanent prisoners . |
| 9 | After the first melting mouthful reminded her how hungry she was , it was much easier to push disturbing visions and hurt-filled memories to one side and devote her attention to the food . |
| 10 | But the news broadcast after the first missile attack failed to mention it . |
| 11 | There were several others who used to come and see me in Baldersdale , particularly after the first television programme went out in January 1973 , including some of the nurses . |
| 12 | There there was the message of Marcus Garvey , whose writings and activities before and after the First World War laid the foundations of what became Black Power . |
| 13 | It 's nearly 1000 hours before the first mexeflote raft brings ashore an assortment of Land-Rovers , trailers and four-tonners . |
| 14 | Stephen Whiteheadof Whitehead & Partners , another school fees specialist , recommends various savings options depending on the period before the first school fees fall due . |
| 15 | Even before the first exit polls came in he was buying new tackle in readiness . |
| 16 | The BB , a church-based , inter-denominational youth movement , was started twenty-five years before the first Boy Scouts appeared on the scene . |
| 17 | In fact , both were deposited many millions of years before the first pine tree grew on earth . |
| 18 | Such settlement , indeed , took place just in time , before the First World War created a whole new set of conditions . |
| 19 | For the precise location of a site , dialogue with local elected officials began in the preliminary planning stage , when the first field work had to be done . |
| 20 | Field changes become increasingly difficult once Stage II is entered , but they are permitted in exceptional circumstances , for example , when the first school experience convinces an applied education student of the need to change to the education field . |
| 21 | Manchester Utd 1 Manchester City 1 JUST when the First Division championship seemed within touching distance for the first time in a quarter of a century , Steve Bruce pushed it just out of Manchester United 's reach at Old Trafford last night . |
| 22 | Production was mid-way through ‘ The Daleks ’ when the first survey results came through . |
| 23 | A crushing Unionist victory in 1915 , bringing with it disaster for the Labour party and a major setback for the " New Liberalism " might have ended the difficulty , but when the First World War intervened the problem remained . |
| 24 | You were six years old when the First World War began ; later you were to live through some of the worst days of the blitz in Berlin . |
| 25 | Erm how did when when the first world war came do you remember that ? |
| 26 | When the First World War broke out in 1914 schools were on holiday , which proved to be an advantage to the military authorities who promptly requisitioned the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf at Doncaster and the Dundee School for the Deaf . |
| 27 | And hence the feeling in nineteen fourteen when the first world war broke out that it would er all be over by Christmas . |
| 28 | When the First World War broke out diplomatic services were still markedly concentrated in Europe and still thought predominantly in terms of European problems and rivalries . |
| 29 | The Home Rule Bill was about to become law , heralding a clash between British forces and the Ulster Volunteers , when the First World War broke out and postponed the problem . |
| 30 | And Thomas and John Smith , who I 've just mentioned were actually a split family , Thomas Smith was erm so loyal that when the first round of parliament , sorry , when the first Royalist troops came into Oxford , he , as a J P prosecuted some of the citizens who tried to stop them blocking down Botley Bridge as a defence measure . |