Example sentences of "first [noun] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is , then , unsafe to generalise as Lyons does that : ‘ until modern methods of sound recording were developed ( a ) the inscription of language utterances on durable materials provided a more reliable means of transmission than memory and oral reproduction ’ and ( b ) that this was ‘ recognised to be so in the western tradition in which literacy developed in the first instance for this purpose ’ ( 1982 ) . |
| 32 | It is a history of morale boosting , of public money being made available from various sources from 1918 onwards : to enrich the life in remote villages in danger of being deserted by the exodus after the First World War ; to occupy the unemployed in the 1930s on Tyneside ; to counter the dreary effect of the ‘ blackout ’ during the Second World War ( this was the first instance in this country of government subsidy ) ; to bring a sense of wellbeing to the community during the difficult years following the war ; and in particular , to occupy bored young people . |
| 33 | He tricks his Auschwitz guards just as , in the first instalment of this story published in 1986 , he regularly hopped on to trams reserved for German officers in the Polish town where he was virtually the sole surviving Jew . |
| 34 | He or she must also make any capital contribution , which is normally payable forthwith , and pay the first instalment of any contribution from income , so that the whole sum will be paid off within 12 months . |
| 35 | first afternoon For some privacy . |
| 36 | However , your first resort in any query concerning the verification process should be your systems verifier . |
| 37 | 2 A consistent focus on grammar and pronunciation is provided in the first part of each unit |
| 38 | The first part of each curve represents the liquid cooling . |
| 39 | The first part of that proposition , at any rate , is plainly true . |
| 40 | In Britain we have had little chance of forming an opinion , certainly as to the first part of that sentence , but as to the second ( ‘ the richest , fullest … ‘ ) it coincides exactly with my own reaction to her Wigmore Hall recital in London . |
| 41 | you have already seen the first part of that intent . |
| 42 | The Prime Minister should answer the first part of that question , but not the second . |
| 43 | In the late 1520s and 1530s , Henry VIII had embarked on a spectacular , even murderous matrimonial career in an attempt to save his kingdom from the first part of that curse . |
| 44 | Sorry I I simply did n't hear the first part of that lot sir . |
| 45 | The first part of this course is set at a level that closes the gap which students frequently encounter between Intermediate and Upper Intermediate . |
| 46 | What is clear is that this golden age did not exist in the mid 1950s , in the first part of this century nor in the first half of the last century . |
| 47 | In the first part of this century a shepherd , returning from his upland pasture near Rennes-le-Chateaux , stumbled and fell into a fissure in the limestone escarpment , breaking his leg . |
| 48 | This is a fax I want you to send to Ian in Aiden Mouth and it reads as follows good afternoon Ian , at long last I 've been able to get down to this memo of yours , dated the thirtieth alt can you please let me know the actual deliveries ' figures in the first part of this memo . |
| 49 | The first part of this law he explains as follows . |
| 50 | Only the first part of this work is much read nowadays and that is what is discussed here . |
| 51 | The first part of this work will accordingly be aimed at elucidating the totality of Nizan 's experience as a communist writer/intellectual in the political and historical context of interwar French society . |
| 52 | Meat production in the Soviet Union was down 12% in the first part of this year , while milk production has fallen by 10% . |
| 53 | The finding of high plasma n3 polyunsaturated fatty acids concentrations would support the first part of this hypothesis ; that is , the increase in polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis . |
| 54 | Some respondents answered ‘ no ’ to the first part of this question and then quoted a figure for the second part — making it difficult to discern their real attitude to the issue of capping institutional claims , and complicating the interpretation of the statistics . |
| 55 | The first part of this section will present some of the available evidence about the practice of paying dividends while the second part will present a discussion of the debate regarding their relevance in valuation . |
| 56 | The first part of this submission is answered by the arguments of Sir John Campbell A.-G. to which we have referred . |
| 57 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 58 | ’ Well John Major says I 'm a bit of a bastard , and I 've been spending the first part of this conference checking my birth certificate ’ . |
| 59 | The first part of this research will develop a novel statistical methodology , which combines census , electoral and survey data , so that we can evaluate the relative importance of three possible causes of the polarisation : the changing social structure of the population in different regions ; the impact of the growth of parties other than Conservative and Labour ; and variations in voting behaviour between people in defined social groups but living in different regions . |
| 60 | The same is true , in addition , of some of the examples considered in the first part of this chapter : the cities of the Roman empire valued the important temples and buildings in their city rather more than , say , the sources of their agricultural wealth or their other important industries such as marble quarries , pottery or metalworking . |