Example sentences of "first [noun] of [pos pn] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |
| 2 | But at the first sound of her voice even this changed woman became familiar to him , and the veil of estrangement between them broke and drifted like gossamer . |
| 3 | You spend the first week of your holiday here in Zakopane transferring on Saturday for your second week at Brno Lake Czechoslovakia . |
| 4 | You spend the first week of your holiday here , at Brno Lake and surrounding area , transferring to Hungary on Mondays for your second week at Alsopahok . |
| 5 | Experiments with captive eels suggest that they can navigate by the stars , just as some migrating birds can , and on the first stages of their journey away from Europe , when they swim near the surface , this may be the way they guide themselves . |
| 6 | In the first year of its operation only 5 per cent of polytechnic and college funding was allocated on the basis of competitive bidding , but the proportion is expected to be increased to 10 per cent in 1991 and further increases in subsequent years can be anticipated . |