Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although the first production order for V-bombers ( the Valiant ) was placed in December 1950 , the V Force itself , carrying British-manufactured atomic bombs , could not become operational before the mid-1950s at the earliest . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the latter years of the last century and until the first world war , American massemployment industry and the less agreeable urban occupations drew their workforce extensively from eastern Europe as well as from the labour surplus of American farms . |
| 9 | The sense of moral crisis and social discontinuity reflected here was deeply characteristic of late Victorian and Edwardian society , and from the late 1890s until the First World War there was a flood of such accusations against the youth . |
| 10 | Although the great American Thomas Jefferson in 1807 used the term " public relations " , and in England the pen was mighty and writers such as Swift and Dickens promulgated their ideas hoping to change public opinion about a whole host of social or scientific or political issues , until the First World War , public relations was thought of as propaganda . |
| 11 | However , not much in the way of working-class housing was constructed on the bank tops until the 1850s , when housing development began in earnest and continued until the First World War with the construction of ‘ By-Law ’ housing by builders of a variety of scales but always using land ‘ developed ’ by large-scale investors . |
| 12 | It was not until the First World War that the last vestiges of the Habsburg , Ottoman and Romanov empires finally crumbled , making way for a tier of nation states which lay across the map of Europe from the Baltic to the Aegean . |
| 13 | The 100th anniversary if the first street collection was of particular interest , as it was an historic event for volunteer fund raisers nationwide . |
| 14 | This method can be used even if the first letter position is unknown , or if there is more than one letter unknown within a word , whatever the word length . |
| 15 | He had a poor opinion of the utility of book-learning to the Masai , and it was no doubt in part due to his influence that nothing was done in Tanganyika to bring education to them till the 1930s , whereas the first government school was opened in Kenya Masailand in 1921 . |
| 16 | The Commonwealth War Graves Commission was established by Royal Charter in 1917 — while the First World War was still being fought . |
| 17 | ‘ People forget that we 've had forty years of scientific advance since the first atom bomb was dropped . |
| 18 | Since the first timber trade conference of this kind was set up , a year ago , nearly 50 million acres of tropical forest have disappeared from Mother Earth 's bountiful face . |
| 19 | Since the first closing date , only 0.03 per cent further acceptances have been received . ’ |
| 20 | Until this year it had hardly occurred in Latin America since the first world war , when indentured workers stopped arriving from Asia . |
| 21 | Since the First World War the railways in the developed world have been in decline , their role usurped by motor transport and in particular the car . |
| 22 | For decades ( since the First World War ) society has encouraged smoking , depicting it as glamorous , soothing , attractive . |
| 23 | Many such branch operations currently have most of their taxable investment income determined according to apportionment rules that have changed little since the First World War and have become increasingly inappropriate . |
| 24 | The Tremaynes owned a few acres where Tom , disabled since the First World War , grew early tomatoes and potatoes and , in peacetime , daffodils . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Very broadly , his conclusion is that class inequalities in education — at least for boys — have changed very little since the First World War . |
| 27 | Orford Ness , where a staff of 2,000 once worked , has been involved in national defence research and development since the First World War when aircraft fitted with armaments were first tested.Research into bomb ballistics was carried out from 1929 and among the researchers was Barnes Wallis who became famous for inventing the bouncing bombs used against the Mohne and Eder dams during the Second World War . |
| 28 | Major smallpox may have become extinct in Britain since the First World War , with all subsequent cases imported ( Gale 1959 ) . |
| 29 | This chapter will describe the course of fertility since the First World War , relate its trend to social and economic change , and discuss some of the differences in fertility within British society . |
| 30 | Indeed , since the First World War , the development of archaeology has accelerated dramatically . |