Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron . |
| 2 | Although this book covers just the first half-century of the period , it is a valuable contribution to the subject , as are the further volumes in the Pelican Social History series : Britain 1800–1870 by V.A.C . |
| 3 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 4 | Financing just the first instalment of Labour 's spending plans would raise basic-rate income tax by 3½p in the pound if the entire burden was not to be loaded on to the better-off . |
| 5 | The German Ideology is often seen with the Theses on Feuerbach , which was written just before it , as forming together the first formulation of Marxism . |
| 6 | Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand . |
| 7 | For everyone else , it really does n't matter , because the detective work is going to lead to applications for us today , as disciples who follow in the footsteps of Matthew the apostle and whoever it was who put together the first gospel of the New testament . |
| 8 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |
| 9 | With each of them individually playing Herbert Thunder , they act out the first part of the story : Herbert finds a lonely spot for himself , and there he cries himself to sleep . |
| 10 | A large selection of vintage prints will be on offer in this sale of photographs , including possibly the first print of André Kertesz 's silver print of ‘ Chat Noir ’ ( est. $50–70,000 ; £30–40,000 ) and a group of four works by Tina Modotti : a platinum print , circa 1926 , entitled ‘ Woman carrying Olla ’ ( est. $40–60,000 ; £25–35,000 ) , silver prints of a ‘ Mexican peasant boy ’ and ‘ Campesinos ’ ( both est. $20–30,000 ; £11–17,000 ) and a platinum print from the early 1920s entitled ‘ Lily and Bud ’ ( est. $7–10,000 ; £4–5,500 ) . |
| 11 | At first , he could utter only the first syllable of each name . |
| 12 | Here we give only the first part of Ohmann 's illustration : [ 8 ] the desk and the shelf above it on which rested the ledgers in which McCaslin recorded the slow outward trickle of food and supplies and equipment which returned each fall as cotton made and ginned and sold … |
| 13 | Bernstein , Kearsley & Zapas ( BKZ ) , however , consider only the first term of such an expansion and write ( Compare the form of this with the Boltzmann expression ( 3.5 ) . ) |
| 14 | Despite the failure of similar tactics on the Madrid front , it had been planned as another Moroccan-type , head-on attack along the first line of Republican defences , with the aim of breaking through at two points , advancing as far as the second line of defence and laying siege to Bilbao from there . |
| 15 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 16 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 17 | I can remember when the first bit of tarmac was put on a road round here and that down here at Upton bypass and all |
| 18 | And without another word he left the table , went out of the kitchen , presumably through the scullery , and into the backyard ; and when the sound of the door shutting came to them , Mick turned with a laugh towards Joe , saying , ‘ I bet you 're wondering where the first part of grace before meals went . ’ |
| 19 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 20 | They walked down the first flight of stairs in silence . |
| 21 | The Open Software Foundation last week announced the general availability of Release 1.1 of its OSF/1 operating system and trundled out the first snapshot of the Distributed Management Environment , for members . |
| 22 | Hence we present here the first rationalization of active-centre disallowed Ramachandran angles that are likely to play a direct role in protein function . |
| 23 | Once again , constraints on space make it necessary to address only the first stage of development , which occurs between the ages of 0 and about 18 months . |
| 24 | Now six months behind in getting version one out the door , SAG has just pulled together the first snapshot of technologies which the specification will use . |
| 25 | I also tracked down the first lieutenant of the submarine and one of the two soldiers carried on board and they confirmed the killings . |
| 26 | Then Lebensraum became available in Venice in the Sixties , when he took on the first floor of the Palazzo Malpiero Trevisani in Campo Santa Maria Formosa . |
| 27 | It is always dangerous when the hon. Gentleman reads only the first half of a sentence . |
| 28 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 29 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 30 | Bodley 's view about the literary insignificance of English drama was formally challenged by Ben Jonson who published plays in the Folio edition of his Workes in 1616 and later , and in response to Jonson 's success , by Shakespeare 's first editors , Heminge and Condell , who brought out the First Folio of Shakespeare 's plays in 1623 ( eight years after Shakespeare died ) . |