Example sentences of "first [noun sg] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Effect is wrongly used in the first sentence of the passage . |
| 2 | If at all possible , answer these questions in the first sentence of the release or at least in the first paragraph . |
| 3 | Here , at last , is the original Hemingway vignette:2 Dealing firstly with the similarities between this and the student reconstructions , it is noticeable that the preferred opening is vindicated : sentence ( i ) is indeed the first sentence of the story . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In order to provide an adequate period of relief it should be at least as long as the first sentence of the theme . |
| 6 | But they do make sociolinguistic assumptions : in context it is clear that they also assume the early development of a socially elite variety , and we can see from the first sentence of the quotation that ‘ carefulness ’ is probably also involved . |
| 7 | Consider the following passage from de Man 's discussion of Rousseau 's Discourse on the Origins and the Foundation of Inequality among Men ( " second Discourse " ) : The first sentence of the extract is a kind of free indirect speech ( FIS ) , the second and third are authorial commentary , the fourth is indirect speech ( IS ) announced by the reporting verb " describes " and the fifth is divided between FIS and direct speech or citation . |
| 8 | The first level of the DUD relates to jobs and the second level to orders for parts , because for each occurrence of the job data , there can be many occurrences of order data . |
| 9 | The man would , of course , have come fasting to the first Mass of the day . |
| 10 | The unit , which will produce 160 000 t pa , is the first installation of the Mobil/Badger ethylbenzene process to use dilute ethylene as a feedstock . |
| 11 | This was his fourth patrol of the day and only his first kill of the week . |
| 12 | We stood beneath the trees — and heard our first chiffchaff of the year : ‘ Chiff-chaff-chiff-chaff-chiff- chiff -chaff . ‘ |
| 13 | After breakfast , the first washing-up of the day and then Mum and the girls would start to prepare dinner , for everyone except the elite had ‘ dinner ’ in the middle of the day . |
| 14 | Erm on the first bit of the handout I 've stuck a couple of definitions of child sex abuse on , just to um give you a little bit of context an and er give you some idea of the sorts of things that people have the sorts of ways in which people are defining this phenomenon nowadays . |
| 15 | The first holder of the post , Sam Nujoma , whose South West Africa People 's Organization ( SWAPO ) had spearheaded the struggle for independence since 1960 , was elected on Feb. 16 , 1990 , by a unanimous vote of the Constituent Assembly [ see p. 37296 ] . |
| 16 | But in attempting to become Asia 's first holder of the game 's ultimate prize , the rising star of the East aims to prove that the ‘ the twain ’ can not only meet but , by harnessing the best of both hemispheres , he can bring a new dimension to the green baize . |
| 17 | Across the narrow stretch of water in front of him was Flushing Quay where the ferry was moored , ready for its first crossing of the day . |
| 18 | Johnson even added his first try of the season to nine conversions and two penalties , with Richard Arnold and Graham Clark scoring hat-tricks and Mark White , Alastair Meadows , Dave Bennett , Paul Holdstook and Peter Walton also scoring . |
| 19 | Thus the cell situated behind the main stem of the radius , near the base of the wing , is cell R , while the cell behind the first branch of the radius is cell R1 . |
| 20 | 4 The Publisher will pay the Proprietor upon receipt by the Publisher , 30% of all amounts received by the Publisher from any sub-licensee of the publisher on the first printing of the Work and 40% on the second printing with the same sub-licensee . |
| 21 | It would have been a public retirement , however — the first printing of the book was 6,000 copies , and it went through eleven impressions in as many years . |
| 22 | This key moves the cursor to the first field of the option . |
| 23 | PF1/5 — the ‘ START AGAIN ’ key moves the cursor to the first field of the option . |
| 24 | It is a first sketch of the business , and you may also verify the relationships , add entities and relationships to the model or attributes to the entities , so that the model is more appropriate for a typical firm of wholesalers. for example , I have not included payments in this interim model . |
| 25 | A.K. Chesterton , an important member of the leadership of the BUF and later first chairman of the Directorate of the National Front , was another for whom the war had profound significance . |
| 26 | A noted figure on the publishing scene , he was the first chairman of the Association of American Publishers , serving a two-year term following the group 's founding in 1970 . |
| 27 | But Benn thrives on fear and any lack of respect for his Welsh opponent in his first defence of the crown at the Alexandra Palace tonight could prove disastrous . |
| 28 | He held the world heavyweight title until 1899 , when he was beaten in his first defence of the title by James J. Jeffries in eleven rounds . |
| 29 | The contracts for the first defence of the title given to Lewis when Riddick Bowe was stripped of the distinction by the WBC were signed by the fighter and his manager , Frank Maloney , in Glasgow yesterday and faxed to Tucker 's handler , Don King , in New York . |
| 30 | A CASH dispute has hit Lennox Lewis 's first defence of the World Boxing Council heavyweight title against Tony Tucker on 8 May . |