Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also any major life event is stressful and this experience may precipitate the first symptoms of anxiety . |
| 2 | Students who wish to enter a combined course must complete the first year satisfactorily , with passes in two units in each of the two subjects which they wish to combine . |
| 3 | A poor man who entered into a partnership could complete the first stage in a year to fifteen months ; he could start a partnership with a poorer man in two or three years . |
| 4 | For solar flares , a system of early warning satellites around the Sun could detect the first sign of trouble . |
| 5 | Angel could see the first light in the east . |
| 6 | The trimpot used to set the first stage gain , should be set at maximum resistance and the multi-turn zero offset trimpot to the centre of its range before this check . |
| 7 | Readability will remain the first principle of Cobol , no matter what paradigm fashion dictates it must embrace . |
| 8 | Brussels-based ODA Consortium will publish the first release of its Open Document Architecture toolkit for EDI on March 31st next year . |
| 9 | Once in nineteen times your opponent will get the first pair correct , so you will only win nine to one , but the main point is that , as soon as you begin your turn , you play faultlessly . |
| 10 | Monie will lead the first New Zealand side into Australia 's Winfield Cup in 1995 . |
| 11 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 12 | DEC says its results for this quarter will reflect the first growth in its business for eight quarters . |
| 13 | This sawn surface will become the first face of the section , and it is lapped with paraffin oil and 600F Carborundum on the precision lapping machine . |
| 14 | I think that the instructor should treat the first flight on a particular glider as if it was the first flight of the day , and on subsequent flights he should just check for full and free movement and that the surfaces are moving fully . |
| 15 | The Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday it was hoped that next week would see the first dairy farms released from the restriction orders . |
| 16 | All subsequent sections of colour for the background must be designed in multiples of two , but the last section , where the upper portion of the pattern will join the first section , must also be an odd number . |
| 17 | The main area or areas of complaint will indicate the first tables to consider . |
| 18 | Mac-on-Unix house Quorum Software Systems Inc , a hit at last year 's UniForum , this week will stage the first public , albeit belated , showing of its Equal end-user product at the Silicon Graphics Inc and Sparc International booths . |
| 19 | Mac-on-Unix house Quorum Software Systems , a hit at last year 's Uniforum , this week will stage the first public , albeit belated , showing of its end-user product Equal at the Silicon Graphics and Sparc International booths . |
| 20 | Deano will score the first goal of the season just like he did for Sheff . |
| 21 | This arrangement should therefore mean that all the services which take you to Cameron Park will use the first stop on the Scotmid section of Nicolson Street . |
| 22 | If they decide that you should , then you will be given a date for the start of the Service , and the Scheme 's driver will make the first visit to you , bringing a new supply of fresh sheets at a convenient time . |
| 23 | The Bristol and West will become the first building society in Britain to use customer profiles to determine interest rates when the scheme is introduced in the middle of next year . |
| 24 | Production from the field will mark the first export of gas from the UK . |
| 25 | A brother or father 's brother of the bride should meet the first group ; a sister or mother 's sister of the bride the second group ; a cross-cousin of the bride the third group . |
| 26 | This is not considered in much detail by Marslen-Wilson and Tyler ( 1980 ) ; however , they do suggest that the acoustic-phonetic information needed to define the word-initial cohort must include the first vowel of the word . |
| 27 | The normal form will characterise the first step of a process ' behaviour using the highest levels of syntax , and rely on inner levels to deal with subsequent steps . |
| 28 | The Prime Minister should answer the first part of that question , but not the second . |
| 29 | A neophyte taking a skiing holiday used to spend the first week in excruciating , character-forming exercises . |
| 30 | Hodkinson will make the first inroads into his fortune by taking a holiday with his wife to Las Vegas to watch the Lennox Lewis-Tony Tucker WBC heavyweight championship fight on May 8 . |