Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the first [noun sg] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | At first , he could utter only the first syllable of each name . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | 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 ) . ) |
| 10 | Paying independently for research would be far too expensive , and as Payne acknowledges candidly , ‘ If we 're paying commissions and thus get literally the first call on the telephone , we have an edge when it comes to news items . |
| 11 | Hence we present here the first rationalization of active-centre disallowed Ramachandran angles that are likely to play a direct role in protein function . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You will see we have brought forward the first meeting to 23rd September — to help you get in the mood and inspired to start teaching at the beginning of the new term . |
| 15 | It is always dangerous when the hon. Gentleman reads only the first half of a sentence . |
| 16 | Now any postmultiplying column say{ a , b , c , 1 } , must satisfy unc In performing our iterations , therefore , we may ignore completely the first row of A ; we use the last three rows to find the corresponding elements in a column , and then apply(3) to find the top element . |
| 17 | The stage-curtains folded away the first half of the show to the accompaniment of enthusiastic applause . |
| 18 | No one can enumerate the conditions and events which issued ill the first sighting of Halley 's Comet or the weights of man-made objects in the Northern Hemisphere in the nineteenth century , but it would be bizarre to say that no clear ideas attach to those definite descriptions . |
| 19 | Therefore , if such a cynical interpretation of the motivation of those committed professionals who are carrying forward the first wave of trusts were to apply , it would be irrelevant because the resources are ring fenced by the region and the trusts would be at no disadvantage . |
| 20 | That cynical interpretation of the commitment of all those dedicated professionals who are carrying forward the first wave of trusts is so bitterly resented by the health service , which is why the Labour party has lost all credibility with the health professionals . |
| 21 | He would have been wiser to have published only the first part of this book . |
| 22 | Having taken the field with his directors to become surely the first board to be cheered to the rafters , he was presented with a cheque . |
| 23 | An indefatigable , largely single-handed , compiler and one who aimed essentially at making bibliographical and other information available , he published privately the first edition of his A World Bibliography of Bibliographies in 1939 ; this work , constantly enlarged , was to make his name a household word with librarians worldwide . |