Example sentences of "of the first [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leo McKern has some fun answering frequent calls of nature and waving a huge condom around , but he 's doing no more or less than passing the time until the phoney climax of the First Act curtain , by which time you 're aware that as a play Boswell is a fraud . |
| 2 | Red Rocks stadium throbs to the sound of the first support band . |
| 3 | A great stalwart of the breed , he was a founder member of the first breed club in the USA and handled the first Rottweiler to win the working group , possibly the best way for a new breed to gain attention . |
| 4 | A quick look at the architecture of the first PowerParallel machine ( called SP1 by IBM ) show why this is relatively easy . |
| 5 | This was especially true of the first Dalek serial which had many rewrites done to it before it was finally handed to Christopher Barry and Raymond Cusick . |
| 6 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 7 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 8 | Richard Baxter was a leading figure in the establishment of the first missionary organisation , the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel . |
| 9 | She opened one of the first child welfare clinics in the country , and ran a working men 's club . |
| 10 | All these symptoms are displayed by the central consciousness in Out : a breakdown of reality-testing , the concretization of words , organ-speech , omission of the first person pronoun , the proliferation of contradictions , and perception of language as pure sound and as excrement . |
| 11 | Similarly , there is a form of the first person pronoun specifically reserved for the use of the Japanese Emperor ( Fillmore , 1971b : 6 ) . |
| 12 | Green , for example , repeatedly wonders about the identity of the first person speaker in " The retreate " ( " who is the " " I " " of the utterance ? " |
| 13 | For the rest of the first circuit Run And Skip and Dawn Run , both regular frontrunners , vied for the lead on the fast ground , and their duel took them well clear of the rest of the field . |
| 14 | The British commander , Brigadier Andrew Cumming , 45 , said : ‘ This is a great boost for morale as we enter the last few furlongs of the first Operation Grapple tour . ’ |
| 15 | What was very difficult to prove — but was much suspected , especially in the late 1940s , at the time of the first Press Commission — was that advertisers used their leverage to get favourable coverage and dampen criticism . |
| 16 | And that was the start of the first film society in Spain during the Franco dictatorship . |
| 17 | The main hall of the first Alexandra Palace was to be bigger than St Peter 's in the Vatican . |
| 18 | Approximately one year after their initial interview , a further interview was sought with the principal carers whose relative was still alive ( though we did interview a sample of those whose relative had died ) and who had not already been living in an institution at the time of the first carer interview . |
| 19 | Following up some of the conclusions of the first CACE report ( see 1947 Clarke ) this inquiry considered ‘ the natural interests and pursuits of school children out of school hours ’ . |
| 20 | The program begins with the target position ( in steps ) loaded into COUNT and a POINTER Set at the address of the first delay value , ACCST . |
| 21 | Accordingly , the AKT was administered during the first and last of the group sessions and constituted a straightforward method for evaluating the success of the first course objective : specifically , to increase participants ' alcohol knowledge so that future alcohol use can be more informed and therefore more prudent . |
| 22 | Some of the first life course sociologists assumed that this gradual ageing process was also socially unidirectional , towards ‘ disengagement ’ , as if in acceptance that life itself was ebbing away . |
| 23 | The actuarial profession traces its origins back to 1762 , with the establishment of the first life office to run on scientific principles . |
| 24 | Frame Technology Inc , San Jose , is right in there with FrameMaker 3.0 for Windows NT , needless to say claiming it to be the industry 's first document publishing application for Windows NT : it will be available customers within 30 days of the first customer ship of Windows NT at $800 . |
| 25 | All this led to the release of the first solo album … |
| 26 | In September 1980 he had paid £65,000 for the British rights to the release of the first solo record by Phil Collins , the drummer from Genesis . |
| 27 | The award of the first State scholarship , providing access to a university , was celebrated with a day 's holiday for the whole school in the 1930s . |
| 28 | The Father came out this morning to say that the hall could , one of the first things Father told him was that the hall could n't be insured , I mean it even staggered erm Doris , cos she 's not heard of that before , impressed , I do n't know what impressed is , but |
| 29 | Hickox will cover mainly English music ( see our new release listings for details of the first Alwyn project ) and will include work with the Bournemouth SO , LSO City of London Sinfonia , early music ensemble Collegium Musicum '90 and Opera North . |
| 30 | The first action using any new technique is usually one of the most interesting , for the simple principles can be seen without any complications of secondary purposes or complicated gear , and this is true of the first beach reconnaissance at Rhodes . |