Example sentences of "the first [noun pl] [art] [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 It says that it is the counsel of the witan determined upon as soon as Cnut and his witan established peace and friendship between Danes and English , and that one of the first things the witan decided was that they would zealously observe Edgar 's law and " investigate further at leisure what was necessary for the nation , as best they could " .
5 For one of the first things the maltster looked for was just this : uniformity of seed in the samples that the farmer showed to him .
6 One of the first things an infant elephant has to discover is how to use its trunk .
7 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 .
8 It was certainly the case that in the first centuries the example of Jesus must have been a tremendous model for living and for dying .
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