Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no point in arguing who cast the first stone or threw the first bomb , destroying a church hall or a GAA club . |
| 2 | Wine was decanted against the flame of a candle , and pouring would be stopped as soon as the wine started to get cloudy or showed the first signs of deposit . |
| 3 | He named his discovery ‘ eight months anxiety ’ and it gained the same status for psychologists that saying ‘ mama ’ or cutting the first tooth has for parents . |
| 4 | He felt disappointed because writing " Voice of Vangmoor " was the only money-making activity he did that he enjoyed , and this would have been more enjoyable than usual , a piece of real journalism as against the usual pedestrian stuff about the view from the top of Big Allen or hearing the first cuckoo . |
| 5 | ‘ concluded that the submissions raised in it were not of sufficient substance to justify referring the same to the judiciary or altering the first review date . |
| 6 | This was not , however , immediately apparent to those photographers , instrument makers and lanternists who had been fired up to experiment with moving pictures after hearing reports of Edison 's Kinetoscope , the original what-the-butler-saw machine , or witnessing the first projection of films made by the Lumière Brothers in 1896 . |
| 7 | He was going to be responsible for something that he did n't know or care the first thing about . |
| 8 | If the borrower should default , the investor has legal recourse to the bank that made the first acceptance . |
| 9 | Cimflex Teknowledge Corp of Pittsburgh is selling the unit that represents the first part of its name , its Automated Factories Division , to Flexpack Corp , a wholly owned unit of Julius Capital Partners LP.The price includes assumption of some liabilities , about $160,000 in cash and potential royalty payments dependent on future Flexpack sales . |
| 10 | The pattern shop was a haven of relative peace and quiet , reminiscent of cottage industry , a place where carpenters fashioned the wooden shapes that contributed the first stage of the moulding process . |
| 11 | ‘ Old school ’ , a term that describes the first wave of US rap originators , is now a bona fide street fashion craze . |
| 12 | This was the issue that dominated the first session of the Council , the only one Pope John knew . |
| 13 | One of the areas that shows the first signs of body ageing is the upper arms — they can become thick and flabby and as a result shapeless . |
| 14 | BOUTS of nausea and vomiting that accompany the first months of pregnancy may be good news for the mother , according to two new theories on the cause of morning sickness . |
| 15 | The second XB-70 ( 62–207 , tail number 20207 ) flew on July 17 , 1965 , with many of the ‘ bugs ’ that plagued the first example ironed-out and exceeded Mach 1.4 at 42,000 feet on the first flight . |
| 16 | No one has yet explained to me what happens to your filter if you set up an aquarium and lock up the ammonia that forms the first stage of the nitrogen cycle as Ammo Lock claims to do . |
| 17 | It was tiredness that finished the First Church . |
| 18 | One particular wolf or hunting dog is not always the individual that takes the first grip on its victim . |
| 19 | But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity . |
| 20 | If grey was the colour that characterized the first phase of my time at Harwich , blue characterizes this next phase . |
| 21 | So that on er if you look at the crew picture this is the crew that flew the first mission to Gdynia , Poland except kneeling the second man from the left is , he did not go , I flew the co-pilot position . |
| 22 | In 1841 , when the Great North of England Railway opened up for coal traffic , it was a Kitching engine that pulled the first train . |
| 23 | There is no easy solution to this one , other than doing the first ones at a safe altitude , which means at some speed since it is difficult to fly slowly at any height or distance . |
| 24 | I vividly remember the familiar scent of sawdust that perfumed the first hug . |
| 25 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 26 | Mike Newell also weighed in with two , but it was the awesome , all-round power of Shearer that smashed the First Division club 's hopes of Coca-Cola Cup glory . |
| 27 | After the deluge that decided the first battle of Ypres , King-Emperor George V arrived at the St Omer Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France , and went away again . |
| 28 | In the summer of the same year that saw the first air mail service across Western Canada I met Hollick-Kenyon by arrangement in New York . |
| 29 | of personal standards ’ that accompanied the first affair , the warning bells are beginning to sound . |
| 30 | In other instances the consolidator provides a master air waybill that indicates the first airline by inserting that airline 's stamp accompanied by a mention of the consolidator 's agency but without an indicating of the flight number . |