Example sentences of "a first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arsenal 's breaks were few but always threatening and Oldham , after a first flurry , found openings increasingly elusive . |
| 2 | Afterwards nobody could tell us about our route and it may have been a first ascent — we still do not know . |
| 3 | Okay having done that we discussed what the content of the course was going to be and then I asked you to make a first presentation . |
| 4 | Rose Shepherd goes on to argue that a first affair , usually based on attraction , leads to further affairs based on nothing more than boredom , loneliness , resentment , or the need for further boosting of confidence once the first extramarital partner has bowed out . |
| 5 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 6 | He tried to rise , his full height : to face Parker , for now he had no intention of turning over , but the foreman , a first alarm , felt a coldness , and punched him down . |
| 7 | In the former , to a first approximation , the initial amount of radiocarbon in an organic sample is taken to be that in the atmosphere now , but many adjustments are made to this assumption as will be seen below . |
| 8 | In either case , the line thus calculated is only a first approximation , and will be tuned up , as we shall see in the next section . |
| 9 | One consequence of this is that , to a first approximation , most of the mechanical properties of different timbers are proportionate to their densities ; a timber twice as dense will be about twice as strong and so on . |
| 10 | CO molecules adsorbed in the vicinity of this charge will , to a first approximation , have their orbital binding energies rigidly downward-shifted , allowing increased electron transfer from the substrate into the lifetime-broadened CO 2 antibonding orbital . |
| 11 | As a first approximation , we assume that the cylinder deforms globally to become a squatter version of itself . |
| 12 | If some of the germ lines that led from the primaeval soup had not been , to a first approximation , immortal then extant organisms would not exist . |
| 13 | Select a set of starting vectors Yo , arbitrary except that they must be linearly independent ; then evaluate the ( n × p ) matrix unc and use Wo to form the two square matrices of order p unc Now solve the eigenproblem ( any suitable method from this chapter may be used ) unc for its modal matrix Mo ; the spectral matrix Ao which emerges is ( see below ) a first approximation to Ay . |
| 14 | Moreover , the trivial eigenproblem gives a first approximation to 1 as the Rayleigh quotient. ( ii ) If Yo happens to be the correct set Y , the method makes this apparent at once , for then in view of ( 3 ) unc so that , on use of ( 5 ) unc Thus both matrices are diagonal , so that the eigenproblem is again trivial , having the solution |
| 15 | ( This is not the final theory but a first approximation . ) |
| 16 | As a first approximation , then , we could produce a partial representation of a ‘ framework ’ for extract ( 5 ) in terms of the following set of activated contextual features . |
| 17 | As a first approximation , we may say that an idiom 's syntactic behaviour is broadly determined by two factors : the syntactic structure of the literal counterpart of the idiom ( if it has one ) , and the fact that distinguishable syntactic constituents are not semantic constituents , and therefore are not open , for instance , to adjectival and adverbial modification , nor can they be isolated for emphasis , etc . |
| 18 | In evaluating this expression we first note that the metric connections are linear in h ; hence to a first approximation in h the form ( 7.4 ) or ( 7.5 ) can be used for the Riemann curvature tensor rather than ( 7.3 ) . |
| 19 | In fact these can legitimately be regarded as fluorine ‘ lone pair ’ orbitals quite distinct from the bonding , non-bonding and anti-bonding MOs which are analogous to those found for H 2 O. Similarly , presents us with yet another increase in complexity , but the additional orbitals can be regarded , at least to a first approximation , as ‘ CF 3 group ’ orbitals associated with CF bonding or with F atom lone pairs , again superimposed on a basic set of ‘ skeletal ’ MOs analogous to those found for H 2 O. |
| 20 | The bars of the histogram are arranged in descending order of size and it will usually be found that 80 per cent of the money will be associated with 20 per cent of the products , to a first approximation — the origin of the well-known 80–20 rule . |
| 21 | To a first approximation it is also possible to write thereby allowing use of the data from either type of measurement to characterize the sample . |
| 22 | The other part will reflect the cost of materials and labour used in producing the product and will therefore be , to a first approximation , linearly related to production volume . |
| 23 | The estimated income from the new product is , again to a first approximation , linearly related to the number of units invoiced . |
| 24 | The bars of the histogram are arranged in descending order of size and it will usually be found that 80 per cent of the money will be associated with 20 per cent of the products , to a first approximation — the origin of the well-known 80 — 20 rule . |
| 25 | Because of the significant skill differential between insiders and outsiders , insiders can be treated at a first approximation as monopolists . |
| 26 | ( To a first approximation , one is likely to encounter the first type if f is a little higher than f and the second type if f is a little lower than f . ) |
| 27 | Thus as a first approximation ( but see below ) , now can be glossed as " the time at which the speaker is producing the utterance containing now " . |
| 28 | As a first approximation , we may note that ( 81 ) He 's coming seems to gloss as " he is moving towards the speaker 's location at CT " , while ( 82 ) He 's going glosses as " he is moving away from the speaker 's location at CT " . |
| 29 | In temple services in the morning ritual , after the presentation to the god , there occurred a first reversion of the offerings . |
| 30 | Mindful of their situation they began well , forcing a first minute corner and pressing strongly . |