Example sentences of "first [noun] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is submitted that the first sentence of that paragraph applied to the conversations in the shop . |
| 2 | The first sentence in that passage is , of course , a gross exaggeration . |
| 3 | The first sentence in this paragraph , for example , indicates that the discussion is to be about the change from one paragraph to another . |
| 4 | This cycle is shown in the left-hand part of the first chart on this page ( borrowed from Alan Budd , the chief economist of Barclays Bank ) . |
| 5 | On Oct. 18 the Bundesrat ( upper house ) unanimously elected Alfred Gomolka , Minister President of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania , as its president for the coming year , the first holder of this office from what had been East Germany . |
| 6 | Originally built in 1600 , the first building on this site was a fortified lookout tower . |
| 7 | At present , the first £128,000 of any estate is free of inheritance tax . |
| 8 | muddy with dope and blues — first try of some perfectionist |
| 9 | None of this , though , for Ifor or for Cis or , I presume , for the rest of the family , was to be compared with the fact that Richard Walter Jenkins Junior , aged eleven , passed a scholarship to the Secondary School and went there : the first Jenkins of that line ever to do so . |
| 10 | The first response of any seller in a strong position is bound to be an impossible one , and so this is . |
| 11 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 12 | The first body-blow to this belief was dealt by Kinsey , Pomeroy and Martin , who concluded that , far from a high-point of sexual feeling and tension existing only in the earlier adult years and continuing only to around the mid-fifties , sexuality and sexual activity decline after youth only in the most gradual way , with no set or probable point of cessation . |
| 13 | She 'd tacked the first sketches for this picture up on the wall and they looked as if someone else had drawn them . |
| 14 | To translate the corpus information a file was created containing two columns — the first field on each line contains the original LOB tag , the second field contains the tag that it is to be translated to . |
| 15 | We do not wish to be the first case of this kind to go before the Special Commissioners . |
| 16 | " To our knowledge , " the ornithologists say , " this is the first case in any vertebrate in which a drastic and recent change of behaviour has been documented and its genetic basis established . " |
| 17 | Good as new : to remove lipstick stains from your clothing , first scrape off any residue with a knife then rub in some washing-up liquid to loosen the stain and wash in the normal way . |
| 18 | The first settlement of any size in Liddesdale was the purpose-built village of Newcastleton , established in 1793 by the third Duke of Buccleuch as the basis of a weaving community . |
| 19 | George Oldham became the first chairman of any region to serve a second term of office . |
| 20 | The first election in that sense was held on May 30 , 1929 ( when Labour won 287 seats , Conservatives 261 , Liberals 59 , others 8 ) . |
| 21 | The only route I 'll describe here is The Viking ( E3 5c ) , the first route of that grade in the Lakes . |
| 22 | Then take one step backwards again ( to the ‘ a ’ node ) and down the next route forwards ( to the ‘ c ’ node ) , and so on down the first route from each node , until the end of the graph is again reached ( i.e. the complete candidate string ljaclc ) . |
| 23 | Again take the first route from this node , noting the letter at this next node as the second letter in the candidate string . |
| 24 | Lloyd rode his first winner in this country at Newmarket last Friday and is in England for seven weeks . |
| 25 | The rate ratio for admission was similar when only the first admission of each child was counted ( 27 vs 42 , rate ratio 0.65 [ 0.41–1.04 ] , p=0.09 ) . |
| 26 | The court may allow a defendant to withdraw or amend a first admission at any time on such terms as may be just ( Ord 9 , r 2(4) ) . |
| 27 | It pushes back , to a disconcertingly early period in Pound 's life , the first signs of that aridity , that closing of the doors of perception , which — drastically arrested and reversed though it was , at Pisa and through the first years at St Elizabeth 's — reasserted itself and wreaked the desolation of Thrones . |
| 28 | For the first hour of that morning , from eight until nine , Coffin worked at home , drinking tea and making forays to the telephone . |
| 29 | Greece thus offers not only the first instance of this change but also the essential one for any attempt to isolate the cultural consequences of alphabetic literacy ’ ( ibid. p. 42 ) . |
| 30 | The EETPU Essex agreements are the first instance of this practice being extended into the field of the " new " temporary working . |