Example sentences of "[conj] the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now continue turning the transport wheel until you have the figure 1 ( or the first row of any subsequent pattern ) showing in the little cut-out square at the left of the bottom slot on the console . |
| 2 | The long-promised higher frequency Vikings that would go a ways to proving Sparc 's scalability are supposed to be producible by the end of the fourth quarter or the first part of the new year , according to TI . |
| 3 | Oddly for years , it remained permissible to use an iron or steel stemmer providing it was not upon the " … wadding or the first part of the tamping or stemming on the powder … |
| 4 | The day of finding the vaginal plug may be designated day 0 , day ½ , day I , or the first day of pregnancy in different laboratories . |
| 5 | For instance , two-note groups being constantly played with a heavy first note and a curtained second one , or the first note under each slur produced with an accent . |
| 6 | Just retrieve the file in the normal way and Quattro Pro will automatically identify the file type by its extension ( or the first record in the file ) and translate it . |
| 7 | Spring back up without stiffening and sing ‘ gah ’ or ‘ lah ’ or the first line of a chosen poem or song . |
| 8 | Example 103 , from No. 7 of Karg-Elert 's Interludes in Various Keys for organ , shows a mixture of diatonic and chromatic substitution notes typical of this composer : The student will be able to analyse this for himself , but he should beware of treating the second chord in the penultimate bar , or the first chord in the last bar , as triads in their own right . |
| 9 | During the last week of July or the first week of August every year , the Provincial Exhibition was held in Regina — a gala display of all manner of farm products , poultry and livestock , coupled with an ‘ extravaganza ’ by way of a grandstand show and horse-racing . |
| 10 | Until things collapsed , I had planned to hold a conference in either the last week in January or the first week in February because , as a result of discussions with the Shopping Hours Reform Council , SOS , the Union of Shop , Distributive and Allied Workers , the Keep Sunday Special campaign , the consumers and other groups , I am confident — |
| 11 | You could win a Runner-Up Prize of £100.00 or £10.00 — £50.00 or £5.00 — £20.00 or one of the 10 Fifth Prizes each of £500.00 or the 5 Fourth Prizes of £1,000.00 or the £5,000.00 Third Prize , the £10,000.00 Second Prize or the First Prize of £30,000.00 or even £60,000.00 if it is returned promptly . |
| 12 | The price factors are calculated for the first day of the delivery month , and adjustments have to be made for accrued interest where the first day of the delivery month does not coincide with a coupon payment date . |
| 13 | Like tonight , Parents ' Evening , when they had assembled at his behest in the Staff Common Room overlooking the school driveway to watch out for arriving parents and usher them through to the headmaster 's sitting-room , where the first part of the festivities were to take place . |
| 14 | A similar case of Fermi resonance occurs in , where the first overtone of the C=S stretch at 1033 cm -1 interacts with the N=C stretch near 2070 cm -1 to give two IR bands of comparable intensity ( Fig. 5.35 ) . |
| 15 | Jamaica , where the first railway of 1845 was the first in the British colonial empire , was provided with a diverse group of wonderfully eccentric stations . |
| 16 | Who would have thought today Sarajevo , where the first shot of that war was fired , would be in the news ? |
| 17 | Mr Justice Morrit held that the first payment of £4,000 on 30 January together with the monthly sum of £1,000 by banker 's order was not enough to discharge in full the invoice for January 's work by the accountants , which was £5,307.25 . |
| 18 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 19 | Ironically , the latest historical theorists claim as very likely the idea that the first king of the city of Rome was indeed a Romulus . |
| 20 | Specialists have estimated that the first decade of dismantling will cost 2.5 billion roubles . |
| 21 | One is sleep , in justification whereof I shall quote William Archer 's dictum that the first qualification for a dramatic critic is the capacity to sleep while sitting bolt upright . ’ |
| 22 | SOUTH Down MP Eddie McGrady has called on Agriculture Minister Lord Arran to ensure that the first instalment of the Beef Special Premium is paid at the beginning of November . |
| 23 | But in a case where the discussion begins with the fact that the description of the goods by which they were sold points to one particular purpose only , it seems to me that the first requirement of the subsection is satisfied … |
| 24 | The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) confirmed on Nov. 15 that the first consignment of confiscated enriched uranium had been airlifted to the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | We do have evidence that the first generation of Afro-Caribbean immigrants was exceptionally law abiding . |
| 26 | But in his innocence — and Murrells was , administratively speaking , an innocent — he had forgotten that the first prerequisite of British control was to identify the men who would function as British agents , so that they could , in the event of unsatisfactory performance , be replaced . |
| 27 | But it 's only now , 17 years after her death , that the first lady of crime fiction has at last acquired a fan club . |
| 28 | So it is appropriate that the first champion to be whelped in this country was Ch. |
| 29 | Nehru , having accepted Commonwealth membership , was content to pay Mountbatten the compliment ; Jinnah announced that the first Governor-General of Pakistan would be himself . |
| 30 | Labov notes that the first type of approach appears to work best in working-class neighbourhoods while the second is more successful in middle-class neighbourhoods . |