Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | BP is to spend $340 million in developing its share of the first phase of the Mars oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 2 | Why , then , could Tolkien not finish his legends of the First Age off ? |
| 3 | MALONE opened their defence of the First Trust Senior Cup with an easy victory over North at Ormeau yesterday . |
| 4 | A dollop of cranberry sauce has been the traditional accompaniment to turkey since the Pilgrim Fathers ate what they called crane berries ( the flowers resemble cranes ) — probably in the form of a sauce — with turkey at the Thanksgiving feast , celebrating their survival of the first winter spent in America . |
| 5 | His other books included his Life of the first Marquess of Ripon ( 1921 ) . |
| 6 | Swansea 's victory kept them top of the First Division and was another display worthy of any defending champions . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , a number of factors can be briefly identified which explain why it makes sense to stop our account of the first age of party in 1715 . |
| 8 | For example , Jan Watt bases his analysis of the first paragraph of Henry James 's The Ambassadors on five features : ( 1 ) non-transitive verbs ; ( 2 ) abstract nouns ; ( 3 ) the word that ; ( 4 ) elegant variation ; ( 5 ) delayed specification of referents . |