Example sentences of "the first [noun] [conj] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 2 | The first doubt that this proposal might , after all , be genuine occurred to her . |
| 3 | The first evidence that this was on its way was noticed towards the end of March , when a patch of snow just below and to the south of the Main Crater began to melt , and simultaneously , activity in the North-East Crater began to die down . |
| 4 | The first sign that this was happening in Langbaurgh came shortly after 1am , as the votes came in from Marske and Longbeck , Marton and Nunthorpe . |
| 5 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |
| 6 | Of course , there are relatively as well as absolutely very many more poor people in the Third World than in the First World but this is not only a question of geography but also of transnational class location . |
| 7 | As the sopranos of the WI soared off into the upper atmosphere he began to feel for the first time that this Christmas had meaning . |
| 8 | This is the first time that this development has been made manifest . |
| 9 | As Robert points out this is the first time that this function has been run as a single corporate entity . |
| 10 | This is not the first time that this issue has reached the public domain , or will it be the last time that the House is asked to focus on the rights and duties of citizens in circumstances — from time to time inevitable circumstances — when the interests of one individual or one set of individuals necessarily impinge on and potentially damage the interests of others . |
| 11 | The referendum results were thus automatically invalidated — the first time that this had happened . |
| 12 | The in-can system , for which we hold the patent , won The Queen 's Award for Technological Achievement in 1991 — the first time that this award has been given to a brewer . |
| 13 | This is because the students will be dealing with this for the first time and this is thought to be a clearer presentation . |
| 14 | The new accommodation means we are under one roof for the first time and this means communication between departments , a critical factor in my job , is improved tremendously . |
| 15 | There has been a very considerable delay to the first flight but this is now scheduled for April this year . |
| 16 | It is accepted by Mr. Marten for the first defendant that this was a correct direction . |
| 17 | Making up her mind is the first stage as this gives her a clear aim and plan . |
| 18 | The audience influences the style by indicating the seriousness , formality , or otherwise that the publication should adopt and the first area that this affects is the way the text is laid out on the page . |
| 19 | These three groups will now be considered in more detail , although most attention will be paid to the first group because this includes by far the majority of self-injury cases . |
| 20 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 21 | One of the first indications that this belief would have to be abandoned came when calculations by the British scientists Lord Rayleigh and Sir James Jeans suggested that a hot object , or body , such as a star , must radiate energy at an infinite rate . |