Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [be] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sequence of events — or phases — can be established : a phase when the first building was in use , a phase when the paved area was in use , and a phase when the second building was in use . |
| 2 | ( The first text is in fact comprehensible , but processing it is a much slower and more laborious affair . ) |
| 3 | I had no reason to suppose that the letter was anything but genuine — it was on the shipping company 's notepaper , and , insofar as such recollections are of any value , the signature at first glance was in keeping with the signature I remembered vaguely from my days at Upper Thames Street . |
| 4 | Ella 's first piece was in verse . |
| 5 | The first attempt was in winter , precisely at that dark , depressing period when the sun can barely be bothered rising for more than 20 minutes before it packs in and hands over to nightfall . |
| 6 | The first session was in danger of ending in chaos and frustration when a series of planned interventions , approved by Pope John , rescued it . |
| 7 | There is the objection , however , whatever else is to be said , that the third statement fails to follow from the first two only because of an ambiguity — and more precisely because the consequent of the first conditional is in fact not identical with the antecedent of the second . |
| 8 | The first half is in praise of feasting and drinking . |
| 9 | The first process is in part an aspect of the interaction of men grouped together in a society and engaged in production . |
| 10 | It had been so successful , mon cher — the audience that first night was in rapture — that I thought it would run and run . |
| 11 | As there was only the one company it is reasonable to infer that everyone roped in for the first loan was in fact a Merchant Taylor . |
| 12 | My first flight was in cessna called a honey bee , it was with a man called Andy who my dad knows . |
| 13 | If you read that er book er from the Commission you will find their very first goal is in relation to nursery education in deprived areas and the panel 's looking at that , looking at indicators of , of deprivation as well as erm the . |
| 14 | The first time was in connection with disappearance of one Caroline Farringdon — Cleo to her friends . |