Example sentences of "first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first atom bomb had been dropped . |
| 2 | ‘ People forget that we 've had forty years of scientific advance since the first atom bomb was dropped . |
| 3 | For integration to be achieved it is important that the concept of teacher placement is introduced into the early years of teaching , as part both of the initial training and as induction into the local business community in the first teaching post . |
| 4 | So was I. The expectant mother was sixteen years old and one of my students at the school in Barcelona where I was five months into my first teaching job . |
| 5 | I was soon to take up my first teaching post in a Secondary School and he had called to ask if I were able to make use of a potter 's wheel which he could provide for the new Art room . |
| 6 | As I was unable to see how I could realistically expect students to take responsibility for classes after only six weeks in the School of Education , I decided ( after much self doubt ) to put the students on their first teaching practice in the fourth and fifth years of schools offering our joint GCE O Level/CSE French for Communication syllabus where they would be expected to work with the teachers in a variety of roles . |
| 7 | At the end of the first teaching practice I asked the teacher tutors ( who had all had experience of the previous system ) to make any comments they cared to about the new set-up . |
| 8 | The second part starts at the beginning of Term 5 , before the first teaching practice ; it continues for four further weeks at the beginning of term 6 in the same teaching practice school . |
| 9 | It was the first teaching situation I 'd been in , and I 'd got lots of energy and I was devising ways of getting classroom control and class management and all that kind of thing … |
| 10 | The novel ( or so I hope ) signals a separation between author and narrator with its very first sentence : ‘ The World is what it is ; men who are nothing , who allow themselves to become nothing , have no place in it . ’ |
| 11 | But how can a sentence have a causal role in relation to other sentences if the second sentence 's causal role is defined in terms of its relation to the first sentence ? |
| 12 | The alarm had been raised by two peasants who , as the first sentence of the newspaper story recounts , were walking in the park and noticed a cap lying on the ground , together with a hood and a cudgel . |
| 13 | If ever a politician lost his audience with his first sentence it was Meacher . |
| 14 | The first sentence of Feminism in Eighteenth-Century England makes her position clear : ‘ A significant new interest in woman 's nature and position , caused in part by a radical change in attitudes toward marriage , appears in eighteenth-century literature . |
| 15 | The key point in writing a press release is to encapsulate the message in the first sentence . |
| 16 | The importance of damping down retaliation is dramatized by the following memoir by a British ( as if the first sentence left us in any doubt ) officer : |
| 17 | Second paragraph , first sentence : change ‘ a key ’ to ‘ the keys ’ ( delete ‘ a ’ and insert ‘ the ’ ; add an ‘ s ’ at the end of ‘ key ’ ) |
| 18 | Second paragraph , first sentence : change ‘ hold it down ’ to ‘ hold them down ’ ( delete ‘ it and insert ‘ them ’ ) |
| 19 | Third paragraph , first sentence : change ‘ The best keyboard has ’ to ‘ Some keyboards have ’ ( delete ‘ The best ’ and insert ‘ Some ’ , add an ‘ s ’ at the end of ‘ keyboard ’ , delete the ‘ s ’ at the end of ‘ has ’ and insert ‘ ve ’ in its place ) |
| 20 | Select the first word of the first sentence . |
| 21 | Select the first sentence of the second paragraph . |
| 22 | This time compare the hiss in the first sentence with what you feel and see in the second . |
| 23 | In the first sentence use the name near the beginning , and in the second sentence use the name near the end ( learn by doing , SAS each sentence , at normal speed of course ) . |
| 24 | Here , a prize is mentioned in the first sentence . |
| 25 | In the Cox Report we repeated the first sentence quoted above from Kingman and went on to make the following recommendation : |
| 26 | The first sentence of Hartley 's The Go-Between ( 1953 ) , which appeared when its author was nearly sixty , has by now entered into the valhalla of literary allusion : |
| 27 | Naturally enough , the latter group interpreted the first sentence appropriately but were unable to report what they heard through the unattended channel . |
| 28 | The antecedent and consequent of the first sentence do not , in this context , function to express disapproval either of polygamists or of Solomon . |
| 29 | ‘ HARLEY HOT IN PURSUIT OF COOL SWEDE ’ read the headline , and the first sentence ran : ‘ Brian Harley , the golfer who was on the scrapheap a year ago , continued his early season bid for glory yesterday with a brave round of sixty-eight to leave him one shot behind the cold-eyed Swedish ace , Bjorn Carlssen . ’ |
| 30 | An editorial error resulted in the wrong reference being given at the end of the first sentence of the second paragraph of this editorial by Tom Keighlty and Jan Maycock ( 28 November 1992 , p 1310 ) . |