Example sentences of "the first [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In simple terms the first questions a bank would ask were : has the business got a long term future ? |
| 2 | There are 2 quite different uses for the DIM statement : the first dimensions an array and the second reserves an area of memory for special applications . |
| 3 | To women , entering the trade without undergoing any of the initiation rites , excluded from the union , the whole business of fat and lean — one of the first things a boy apprentice would learn about — can have meant little . |
| 4 | One of the first things an infant elephant has to discover is how to use its trunk . |
| 5 | Throughout the first months a beginner learns that in executing the basic reverse punch and the lunge punch , his hands have to withdraw back to the body in order to repeat the procedure over and over again . |