Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the first [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poet writes in the first person singular as a man talking to a loved one about the inevitable advent of his death , and yet the matter discussed here is not so much death as the gradual disappearance of life . |
| 2 | The enthalpy corresponds to the first electron affinity of chlorine ( see section 3.1 ) . |
| 3 | Right O K yeah that 's the other major erm feature is that agriculture 's share of world trade has declined and manufacturing er share of world trade has increased and I 've got some er some numbers here erm so it says before the first world war agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , today it is less than fourteen percent okay , so agriculture 's share in world trade is declining and has been declining er essentially over the the last sort of seventy years or so . |
| 4 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 5 | It ends on the first closing date or , if later , the date when the offer becomes or is declared unconditional as to acceptances or lapses . |
| 6 | Only the defeat of Germany in 1945 made it possible for a satisfactory study of German war aims in the first world war to be undertaken . |
| 7 | Author of All the Sweet Promises turns to the first World War . |
| 8 | This is often set at 21 days after the posting of the offer document , which coincides with the first closing date of the offer . |
| 9 | The starting pulse also triggers the first delay circuit , which delays the pulse for a time , during which the motor moves to the first phase switching position . |
| 10 | The signalling dates from the First World War and will cost £400 000 to replace . |
| 11 | What evidence is there of this kind of behaviour at football matches before the First World War or in the inter-war period ? |
| 12 | Similarly , the delta form Skynasaur F36 , like the surviving Diamonds , now equipped with latest technology glass fibre rod spars and braces , comes into the first stage bracket of starter-stunters with honours . |
| 13 | Immediately after his generalization about " " eelde " " he returns to the first person plural — " " owre olde lemes " " ( 3886 ) — and within two lines is back to " " ik " " . |