Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 2 | A number of missions owe their existence to the initiative and financial support given in the first place by the Association . |
| 3 | What was needed was a simpler more speedy procedure and so Parliament intervened with the first Public Health Act in 1848 , the forerunner of modern public health legislation . |
| 4 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 5 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 6 | This is still some disadvantage for the acquirer because it is more difficult to gain agreement to a change made subsequently than to a provision included in the first draft . |
| 7 | Mr Runciman said the first warning of problems came in August when it was realised that a major contract expected in the first half of the financial year was not going to materialise . |
| 8 | So I think if you 've got the creativity to write in the first place , you just need to change , not so much the instrument , but maybe change the tuning or the pitch . |
| 9 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
| 10 | The only point I felt w you know we mentioned the other day that if , if there 's a rise say on the first of April then you wan na get in a couple of months before then . |
| 11 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 12 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 13 | An unused kitchen located on the first floor of this block , provided the necessary space for a new Staff Room , Kitchenette and Toilets , with supplementary Staff Toilets , Lockers and Resources Area being located in the link to the three storey block . |
| 14 | The male looks after the first and the female the second . |
| 15 | Here is the chance to see the direction alternating for the first time . |
| 16 | The Italians keep a second striker lurking behind the first . |
| 17 | In particular , I am pleased to note a number of important developments stemming from action points in the first Plan . |
| 18 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 19 | A second legal mortgage can be created by leasing the land to the second mortgagee for a term longer by at least one day than the term limited to the first mortgagee . |
| 20 | In most cat books , the figure given for the first domestication of the cat is between 3,500 and 4,500 years ago . |
| 21 | Scepticism arose with the first television interviews . |
| 22 | Mansell was slow to start … and Williams team mate Ricardo Patrase got a flyer sneaking into the first bend ahead of the field . |
| 23 | The monument stands on the first cross-roads in front of the Carmel Road entrance to West Cemetery . |
| 24 | Do not allow the horse to wander into the first fence . |
| 25 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 26 | THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December . |
| 27 | The elections were thus marked by a high rate of abstention : only 38.89 per cent of the electorate voted in the first round and 33.38 per cent in the second . |
| 28 | The trick is to prevent violence occurring in the first place . |
| 29 | The poet writes in the first person singular as a man talking to a loved one about the inevitable advent of his death , and yet the matter discussed here is not so much death as the gradual disappearance of life . |
| 30 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |