Example sentences of "the first [noun] of this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had hoped to have had the privilege of catching your eye , Mr. Deputy Speaker , on the first day of this debate , when it is acknowledged to be a free-for-all and any subject can follow another . |
| 2 | BORN on the first day of this century — so we always know how old he is — George Singleton is a veteran of the golden age of cinema . |
| 3 | The subjects of the first year of this proposed course would be anatomy , physiology , conformation and external diseases ; in the second year , surgery , materia medica , pharmacy and botany as relating to veterinary medicine ; in the third year , pathology , epizootic diseases , treatment and prevention of disease , hospital practice and shoeing . |
| 4 | The first year of this course is also offered at Portadown College of Further Education and at Belfast College of Technology . |
| 5 | At the end of the first year of this course students may , subject to satisfactory performance , transfer to the second year of the BSc Hons/Ord Applied Computing at Magee College ( see page 160 ) . |
| 6 | Thousands of caribou perished in just the first year of this dam . |
| 7 | In fact before the first year of this trial was completed , some 80 per cent of decision packages were approved almost automatically and resources were directed at the remaining 20 per cent of packages . |
| 8 | In the first year of this project , it is planned to prepare a machine-readable version of all the detailed tax indentures and rolls for subsequent analysis using the data retrieval system known as Personal Data System on the University of Oxford ICL 2988 computer . |
| 9 | Each year the amount has gone up by inflation , and yet we see something approaching thirty thousand underspent on previous years , and here we are looking in the first year of this council to a , a , at least a five percent overspend and er , I wonder if we 've erm , excluded the time when there were n't many meetings at the beginning if we would n't have seen a considerably larger overspend . |
| 10 | The first exploration of this theme was made by Kummer ( 1968 ) in research on hamadryas in Ethiopia . |
| 11 | The Scottish club , trailing 1–0 after the first leg of this second round tie , had to wait only 13 minutes before levelling the scores . |
| 12 | Wednesday , 3–1 down from the first leg of this UEFA Cup tie , went about their work impressively . |
| 13 | I WILL by your kinda town ; I WILL host the first leg of this year 's most significant ‘ alternative ’ rock event , and I WILL send my splendid , scrubbed , windswept children to worship at the feet of its various missionaries . |
| 14 | The Bladerunner Rink in Milton Keynes was bubbling with excitement as the Kings faced the Wildcats in the first leg of this semi-final battle … and what a start … |
| 15 | Kaiserslautern , 3-1 up from the first leg of this second round tie , twice hit Trevor Francis 's team on the break in the second half . |
| 16 | An unused kitchen located on the first floor of this block , provided the necessary space for a new Staff Room , Kitchenette and Toilets , with supplementary Staff Toilets , Lockers and Resources Area being located in the link to the three storey block . |
| 17 | The first development of this data base was undertaken on a Computer Vision system with the software written in VARPRO . |
| 18 | In the first generation of this project the user specifies spatial queries using system implementation concepts which are made comprehensible ( and refined through testing ) . |
| 19 | The first prerequisite of this plan was , of course , completely authentic details ; the second , an ultimate moral message : |
| 20 | The argument as I have presented it seems to require the first reading of this crucial sentence ; on the second reading we get , not a regress of justification , but a demonstration of justification which is only successful in certain conditions . |
| 21 | Do the first lines of this fragment contribute to answering the question asked ? |
| 22 | The first evidence of this surfaced on the second trip that I made to Rhodesia , in April 1971 . |
| 23 | Finally in this section , it is worth pointing out that in the first Unit of this course we learnt that organisations which were based on an open system ( where information flowed in and out through a ‘ permeable boundary ’ to its environment and publics and where adjustment was made in the light of feedback ) , were more able to adapt to change and continue to prosper . |
| 24 | I await the first sighting of this crucial volume with the awed anticipation of a Crusader waiting for the Holy Grail to arrive through the post . |
| 25 | If the writer also uses adverbial expressions initially in the first sentence of this new part of his text , then we might say we have overwhelming evidence that the writer is marking a ‘ topic-shift ’ in his discourse . |
| 26 | The first decision of this tactical group was not to table a motion of no confidence during the debate on the bill which sets this year 's level of defence spending . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | The first instance of this came in the so-called Boxer Rebellion of 1900 . |
| 29 | The EETPU Essex agreements are the first instance of this practice being extended into the field of the " new " temporary working . |
| 30 | The first sign of this was two approaches to Gabriel for her services ; one disguised as a joking phone call , the other as a polite invitation to lunch , but both real . |