Example sentences of "first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm who can do the first sentence for me . |
| 2 | The alarm had been raised by two peasants who , as the first sentence of the newspaper story recounts , were walking in the park and noticed a cap lying on the ground , together with a hood and a cudgel . |
| 3 | The first sentence of Feminism in Eighteenth-Century England makes her position clear : ‘ A significant new interest in woman 's nature and position , caused in part by a radical change in attitudes toward marriage , appears in eighteenth-century literature . |
| 4 | Select the first sentence of the second paragraph . |
| 5 | The first sentence of Hartley 's The Go-Between ( 1953 ) , which appeared when its author was nearly sixty , has by now entered into the valhalla of literary allusion : |
| 6 | An editorial error resulted in the wrong reference being given at the end of the first sentence of the second paragraph of this editorial by Tom Keighlty and Jan Maycock ( 28 November 1992 , p 1310 ) . |
| 7 | If at all possible , answer these questions in the first sentence of the release or at least in the first paragraph . |
| 8 | If we take the first sentence of extract ( I ) as S , and present it below as ( 2a ) , we can also present the negation of S , as ( 2b ) , and the logical presupposition , S' , as ( 2c ) . |
| 9 | Yet the circumstances in which ( 2d ) might be uttered are likely to be quite different from those in which the first sentence of extract ( I ) was uttered . |
| 10 | If the writer also uses adverbial expressions initially in the first sentence of this new part of his text , then we might say we have overwhelming evidence that the writer is marking a ‘ topic-shift ’ in his discourse . |
| 11 | But they do make sociolinguistic assumptions : in context it is clear that they also assume the early development of a socially elite variety , and we can see from the first sentence of the quotation that ‘ carefulness ’ is probably also involved . |
| 12 | Surely Ivan 's first sentence of the New Year had alerted her ? |
| 13 | THIS IS NOT the first sentence of my column . |
| 14 | I hand initially intended to start this column with the first sentence of what is now its second paragraph , but felt it would amusingly underscore the premise of the piece — the ubiquity and infinite adaptability of Magritte 's once exclusively surrealist insights — were it to open thus . |
| 15 | It is submitted that the first sentence of that paragraph applied to the conversations in the shop . |
| 16 | Effect is wrongly used in the first sentence of the passage . |
| 17 | The first sentence of the fifth paragraph , which started ‘ Risk attributable to drugs is poorly estimated , ’ should have started ‘ Risk attributable to disease is poorly estimated . ’ |
| 18 | The historian 's main points or ideas can usually be discovered in ( a ) the first and/or last paragraph of a chapter or section , ( b ) the first sentence of a paragraph — this is the key point for the paragraph and it is usually expressed in one sentence . |
| 19 | She hurried out of the room , before the astonished Victorine had completed her first sentence of protest . |
| 20 | Having formed the first phrase and its complement as the first sentence of our theme , we must turn to the problem of what to do in the second sentence . |
| 21 | In order to provide an adequate period of relief it should be at least as long as the first sentence of the theme . |
| 22 | The essence of the matter was stated in the first sentence of Article 613 : ‘ when an enterprise or a part of an enterprise is transferred to another owner ( sic ) as a result of a legal transaction , the latter shall succeed to the rights and obligations under the contracts of employment existing at the date of the transfer ’ ( my translation ) . |
| 23 | Why is the first sentence of ( 3 ) grammatical while the second is not ? |
| 24 | Or you can SKIM , which involves just reading the first sentence of every paragraph and anything prominent or highlighted ( in this case , it is the general sense and flow of the book you are trying to absorb ) . |
| 25 | Consider the following passage from de Man 's discussion of Rousseau 's Discourse on the Origins and the Foundation of Inequality among Men ( " second Discourse " ) : The first sentence of the extract is a kind of free indirect speech ( FIS ) , the second and third are authorial commentary , the fourth is indirect speech ( IS ) announced by the reporting verb " describes " and the fifth is divided between FIS and direct speech or citation . |
| 26 | Here , at last , is the original Hemingway vignette:2 Dealing firstly with the similarities between this and the student reconstructions , it is noticeable that the preferred opening is vindicated : sentence ( i ) is indeed the first sentence of the story . |
| 27 | First sentence of sect article two section one says the executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America full stop . |
| 28 | We are introduced to Imamu in the first sentence of ‘ The Disappearance ’ seeing as he is one of the main characters of the book , but although Boo Radley plays a large part in ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ , I would n't consider him to be one of the main characters and it is not until we are well into chapter one that Boo is first mentioned . |
| 29 | Yes , it could be the first sentence of ten . |
| 30 | The first mention of £100 clearly demands an ‘ at least ’ interpretation ; what Arthur has is ‘ exactly ’ £100 ; one might therefore not expect the it of the second sentence to be able to refer anaphorically to £100 in the first sentence without antagonism . |