Example sentences of "the first [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden feel the first flutterings of love and , for once , we are offered a complete family ( the Victorian habit of removing one , or both , parents was a convention that survived into Ransome 's time ) . |
| 2 | The first close-up in Straw Dogs is of Susan George 's nipples , seen through a fetching sweater , which have the male townsfolk , young and old , leering . |
| 3 | Board results of the strongest club match played this year : GM Hubner 1–0 GM Christiansen ; GM Yusupov 1–0 GM Lutz ; GM Ribli DRAW GM Hort ; GM Hertneck DRAW GM Vaganian ; GM Bonsch 0–1 GM Hickl ; GM Bischoff 1–0 GM Knaak ; IM Stangl 0–1 GM Vogt ; IM Schlosser DRAW IM Jackelen ; 4.5–3.5 England 's strongest league , the London League , was effectively decided on Tuesday when King 's Head , based at the pub of the same name in Moscow Road , Bayswater , achieved a 5–2 lead in the first session of play against Wood Green . |
| 4 | They lead Bushbury , who have led for most of the season , 5–1 in their eight-game match after the first session of play . |
| 5 | Short , playing black , dominated the game throughout , and at the end of the first session of play on Tuesday he had a clear advantage in an endgame with superior pieces and a very strong passed pawn . |
| 6 | Mr Ashdown , campaigning in north Wales , raised the stakes on electoral reform by saying that his precondition for talks would be legislation to implement PR in the first session of Parliament . |
| 7 | Labour 's 1983 election manifesto pledged the party to ‘ take action to abolish the undemocratic House of Lords as quickly as possible and , as an interim measure , introduce a bill in the first session of Parliament to remove its legislative powers — with the exception of those that relate to the life of a parliament ’ . |
| 8 | The first session of biofeedback conditioning was associated with an improvement in external anal sphincter function in all subjects . |
| 9 | Contrary to what was to happen in the modern period ( and still continues ) , the first objects of trade were not logs but what are sometimes rather dismissively referred to as ‘ minor forest products ’ . |
| 10 | The 20-year-old , a Hampshire regular , seized his opportunity with both hands to take the trophy , winning a four-way play-off with a birdie three at the daunting 455-yard 10th , the first hole of sudden-death . |
| 11 | The first museum of death opens in Germany |
| 12 | More precisely , this will be a museum with no contents at all : the first museum of costume entirely on computer . |
| 13 | She took great delight in physical freedom , was one of the first women to cycle , loved to row , and climbed the Matterhorn twice . |
| 14 | What I 'd like to say is I think erm certainly in Scotland and in Strathclyde area that four years ago , erm the first women in transport survey was actually carried out , erm and it was carried out elsewhere in Britain and er this was as I say the first study that had been done and the results were very surprising . |
| 15 | According to David Mason of the London art dealers MacConnal Mason , who acted for the musicals composer Andrew Lloyd Webber in the recent purchase of Canaletto 's ‘ Old Horse Guards , London ’ at Christie 's , the picture is the first work of art to be bought by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Art Foundation . |
| 16 | The uncertainty of the fat child or the onset of puberty which can make swimming baths one of the first circles of hell for the adolescent , so vividly evoked by Kathryn Ensall 's ‘ Girls in Line at the Swimming Baths ’ ( 1988 ) , or the terrifying prospect of the first day at school captured by Shanti Panchal are all expressions of modern sensibility and above all , of childhood and adolescent anxiety , constructed out of an acute embarrassment with themselves and their situation . |
| 17 | That 's the first day at school |
| 18 | It is always advisable to have the mare and foal checked over by your veterinary surgeon during the first day of life . |
| 19 | And in the first day of life they tend to sleep an awful lot , right , so newborns tend to be sleepy and inactive and the things that , that wake babies up and warm them are feeding , crying , limb movement . |
| 20 | The most important feature is the reservoir of larvae in the tissues of the cow , with subsequent milk-borne transmission ensuring that calves are exposed to infection from the first day of life . |
| 21 | On the first day of camp , 11 of the 13 patients from the UK ( including M7 ) were found to be colonised by P cepacia. 5 of these P cepacia-positive individuals have been traced and all are now colonised by the epidemic strain . |
| 22 | Faecal SCFA concentrations were low on the first day of diarrhoea ( mean ( SEM ) 9.9 ( 5.8 ) mmol/kg ) and increased to 94.8 ( 16.4 ) mmol/kg by the fifth day . |
| 23 | This is likely to be your most fertile day , as it is not unusual to detect your surge on the first day of testing . |
| 24 | In this case a twelve-month sentence for unlawful wounding terminated the contract of employment on the first day of imprisonment . |
| 25 | No time like the present and anyway it is the first day of Lent . ’ |
| 26 | The tsar was well aware that the legislation left much to be desired and delayed publishing it until 5 March , the first day of Lent : " alarmed by the prospect of riot , " wrote an admittedly hostile contemporary , " he hesitated a long time before choosing a day for promulgating the sham freedom and eventually chose the day when it was least of all expected " . |
| 27 | Pam was there from the beginning , or at least from the first day of school . |
| 28 | From the first day of competition onwards there was the complicated process of conquering the logistics of the Stadio Olimpico complex . |
| 29 | But with water shares expected to soar to a 30 per cent premium on the first day of trading , Mrs Ullman 's delay on the Tube could have cost her as much as £150 . |
| 30 | If Sid put £100 ( $175 ) into each of the big privatisations and sold his shares on the first day of trading — as many such investors did — he would ( before expenses ) have got back an extra 41% . |