Example sentences of "[conj] the first [noun sg] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | These observations show that the first absorption band of at 37 900 cm -1 consists of two electronic transitions . |
| 5 | That time lag is a feature that bedevils the software industry and led to the absurdity that the first generation 32-bit chip , the 80386 , had been superseded and obsoleted by the 80486 before there was a 32-bit desktop operating system available for the processor . |
| 6 | Filling in these forms correctly will ensure that the first Council Tax bills will be as accurate as possible and take account of any entitlements to discount , exemptions or rebates . |
| 7 | Anniversary date for the periodic charge The Government think it right as a corollary of the introduction of these reliefs , that the first anniversary date on which the periodic charge under paragraph 12 of Schedule 5 to the Finance Bill will be payable is the anniversary date next after 31st March 1980 . |
| 8 | This assumption of improved supervision is put forward as a great strength of the proposals , but in fact what is being suggested is that the first year house officers would receive supervision from second year staff who are not yet fully registered . |
| 9 | But there is no mistaking the fact that the First Division door has been left ajar . |
| 10 | The League felt that it was important , especially as United are chasing the championship , that the First Division programme came to an end on schedule so they moved the Rumbelows Cup replay . |
| 11 | Emilio Botin , Santander 's chairman , asserts that the First Fidelity stake ‘ fits perfectly ’ with Santander 's other American alliances , a small shareholding in a financial group , Kemper , and a co-operation agreement with an insurer , Metropolitan Life . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Housing advice centres were coming into existence at about the time that the first law centre was being opened , and it is not unrealistic to attribute their inception to the generally increased awareness of the need for advice services . |
| 14 | Some writers express humility in a particularly strange way : when they wish to express an opinion but feel that the first person singular is too assertive , they use the plural ( ‘ we submit ’ ) . |
| 15 | Hence ( vi ) to say , as Wittgenstein does , that the first person utterance is not verified by observation is tantamount to saying that it has no truth-value . |
| 16 | Ralston did say that the first volume Knopf intends to publish ( and is now rushing to complete ) will be entitled French Masterpieces of the Barnes Collection , with an introduction by Richard Wattenmaker , an alumnus of the Barnes art appreciation classes , who is currently director of the Archives of American Art in Washington , D.C. Catalogue essays , by a team of ten writers five from the National Gallery in Washington , five from the Réunion des Musées Nationaux in France will examine eighty works from the Barnes to be displayed at the National Gallery , the starting point for the Barnes tour . |
| 17 | It was decided that the First Aid Post would be at Doctor and Nancy Little 's cottage and that the village hall was to be the Rest Centre . |
| 18 | It was not until the very end of 1905 that the first Party Congress was summoned and an official programme adopted , and the immediate sequel was the defection of splinter groups to left and right . |
| 19 | In the 1960s there is evidence that the process of equalisation began to slow down somewhat and statistics suggest that the first oil shock of 1973 actually reversed the trend altogether with disparities tending to widen . |
| 20 | Its rapid post-war development was based upon its close association with trade unionism , already firmly established before 1914 , and it seems likely that the First World War simply speeded up the process of political change . |
| 21 | Paul Fussell has developed the interesting point that the first world war was a peculiarly literary war . |
| 22 | It was not only in the area of economic ideas and cultural criticism that the First World War was to be important to the roots of British fascist thought . |
| 23 | There was this view that the first world war would be rather like a re-run of some of these wars at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | It is often asserted that the First World War rescued the Unionist Party from an impossible position and left it poised to become the dominating force ; the war broke up Liberalism and destroyed the Liberal-Labour alliance , so opening the way for Unionism ; Lloyd George carried the party to victory in 1918 , incurred the odium for the post-war slump and was cast aside ungratefully in 1922 . |
| 25 | Freud had always held that the first instinct theory could be changed , and indeed it was . |
| 26 | It is anticipated that the first Answer Pack will be available in the autumn and cover Marketing ( Third Level ) examinations . |
| 27 | This clause should be amended to provide that the first rent payment will be due on the Rent Commencement Date . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The more normal condition is that it will only be available to those shareholders of the target who have accepted both the share offer and the cash alternative not later than the first closing date . |
| 30 | The only year where they coincide is nineteen twenty , the great erm influenza epidemic actually killed more people than the first world war , and er as you 'll see , despite increasing trends in health care which have reduced the overall rate , the difference in death rate between males and females has remained in the same or , if anything , widened slightly in recent years . |