Example sentences of "first [noun] in this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first sentence in this paragraph , for example , indicates that the discussion is to be about the change from one paragraph to another . |
| 2 | The first component in this classical stimulus-response link is specific injury-detecting nerve fibres , the nociceptors . |
| 3 | Lloyd rode his first winner in this country at Newmarket last Friday and is in England for seven weeks . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the first experiment in this series , Gibson and Fawcett used ethylene and benzaldehyde . |
| 6 | Northumberland Buildings ( c .1788 ) was his first experiment in this style . |
| 7 | The first steps in this direction were taken in Scotland where , for the first time in 1982/3 , individual authorities were targeted for ‘ excessive and unreasonable expenditure ’ in what was popularly called a ‘ hit-list ’ ( see Midwinter et al . , |
| 8 | The Auditing Practices Board 's The Future Development of Auditing suggested first steps in this direction . |
| 9 | We can readily see the first steps in this transformation process when we consider the impact of computer technology on capital-investment decisions . |
| 10 | ( 5.19 ) with respect to time gives the variation of rotor position with time : For a phase current the flux linked with phase A is simply the product of current and inductance : and the rate of change of flux linkages with time is : The first term in this expression is the voltage induced in the phase windings by the rotor motion and the second term arises from the changing current in the phase inductance — Substituting from Eqns — ( 5.17 ) and ( 5.20 ) gives the motional voltage in terms of the phase inductance : Since the phase current , is produced by a switched voltage supply it is non-sinusoidal and therefore , from Eqn . |
| 11 | The first rule in this business is never believe anything any actor tells you , especially about another actor , especially if he 's fucking you at the time . ’ |
| 12 | The first equation in this model is an estimate of the process that monetary growth followed over the period considered . |
| 13 | Which ground staged the first Test in this country ? ( 6 ) 3 . |
| 14 | This is the first exercise in this book and in certain ways the most important . |
| 15 | Volume VII , 2 , of the series corpus vitrearum medii aevi Deutschland , Die mittelalterlichen Glasmalereien in Luneburg und den Heideklostern by Rudiger Becksmann and Ulf-Dietrich Korn is the first issue in this scholarly series to cover medieval stained glass in Northern Germany ( DM395 ) . |
| 16 | First appearance in this theatre |
| 17 | The Metropolitan 's first move in this case was to invoke the statute of limitations to block Turkey 's demand for the return of antiquities acquired by the museum through gifts and purchases about 20 years ago . |
| 18 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 19 | But it is like the first scenario in this : both kinds of eroticism are specific to male bonding , both occur within and against the very situations in which heterosexuality is most ardently pursued , and both are in part the consequence of heterosexual ardour . |
| 20 | The work of the Hague Conference on Private International Law is of the first importance in this area . |
| 21 | William Murdock was the first person in this country to build a moving steam engine . |
| 22 | Patient 301 was the first person in this family to be referred for genetic counselling . |
| 23 | This shows you that the colour you have now selected and are going to work on , is the first colour in this palette . |
| 24 | The first development in this field was the invention of Coberine by Unilever , working with a leading English chocolate company , which was patented in 1961 . |
| 25 | Your selection to receive this invitation , and the allocation , exclusively to you , of seven numbers that you alone can enter in the draw , means that you could be just one step away from winning the first prize in this £40,000 draw — which would give you the choice that I mentioned between a lump sum and an income for life . |
| 26 | First prize in this category must go to Macmillan for the Macmillan Business English Programme . |
| 27 | Bearing in mind the fact that the first complaint in this case was made on the advice of the Leicestershire children 's rights officer , will the Secretary of State reconsider the Government 's view about the appointment of those officers ? |
| 28 | Will the Minister confirm that he has received the results of the review of the trunk road system in Scotland and that the bypass , once it has been approved , will be given first priority in this list of trunk roads ? |
| 29 | It was a great occasion for the first tournament in this sport . |
| 30 | The first moves in this direction began soon after independence , with the ‘ Education with Production ’ programme . |