Example sentences of "the first test [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There is , however , one procedure that has been found to produce apparently the reverse effect — Hall and Schachtman ( 1987 ) have demonstrated that leaving a long interval between the last session of pre-exposure to the stimulus and the first test session will result in the restoration of an habituated UR while leaving latent inhibition unaffected .
2 In the first test zone , the well produced oil at a rate of 1,972 barrels of oil per day and 3.7 million cubic feet of gas .
3 J.W.H.T. Douglas , became the first Test cricketer to win an Olympic title when he took the middleweight crown , beating the Australian R.L. ‘ Snowy ’ Baker , in 1908 , three years before captaining England on their tour of Australia .
4 1 patient withdrew because of symptomatic hypotension with visual illusions on the first test day with 200 mg Ro 40-7592 , but the other 10 completed study .
5 In Australia , W.G. Grace captained Lord Sheffield 's side to defeat in a three-match series , while Walter Read led England in the solitary Test at Cape Town ( Harry Wood scored the first Test century by a wicketkeeper and England won by an innings ) .
6 But despite Roebuck 's tip the Wallaby fullback is sure to be at the top of the list when Dwyer and his fellow selectors sit down to choose the first Test team to play Scotland in June .
7 He opens with a history of homebuilts dating from Sir George Cayley ( who would have approved the sage advice to get an experienced hand to make the first test flight of your creation , though in his case the unfortunate man was more adept at handling a coach-and-four than a flying machine ) and proceeds through the Flying Flea era to the post-war rebirth in France and the USA , thence to Rutan and the foam/fibreglass revolution , and on to the 1980s emergence of IFR-capable alabaster-smooth hot-rod kitplanes that will blow the socks off anything Vero Beach and Wichita are ( or more accurately are n't ) building .
8 For Weir , who like Kerr had a modest tour , the biggest personal highlights came when he scored 37 and 40 in the first Test match .
9 : WHEN Ian Smith caught Graham Gooch off the bowling of Danny Morrison in the first Test match last winter he broke a New Zealand wicketkeeping record which had stood for 45 years .
10 The first test match in South Africa was expected to be against India , which proposed South Africa 's membership .
11 Malcolm stoically prevented what would have been the first Test hat-trick in England since 1960 , but soon became Waqar 's record 22nd wicket of the series , leaving Smith a gallant 84 not out in four hours of great determination , to finish on the high note upon which he started the series , since which there had been much disappointment .
12 Couple 's joy : Alison Kitchen , 28 , and her husband David , 31 , who live in Hartlepool , are celebrating the birth of triplets the first test tube babies to be born at the town 's general hospital .
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