Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She contributed a paper to the first congress of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science in Birmingham ( 1857 ) . |
| 2 | As an added incentive the Chester-le-Street group of clubs provide a trophy for the first CIU member past the post and this year the clubmen 's shield went to Paul Casey from Osborne Social Club . |
| 3 | This claim might not unreasonably be held to cover such examples as we see in the following subject phrases : ( 15 ) the bicycles damaged all had red handlebars the line defective is the one to the outside a dose strong enough would put him out all night In all these cases , prenominal position would also be acceptable and appears to give the same cognitive meaning for the sentence as a whole , hence encouraging us to accept a solution to the first question , above , in terms of " emphasis " or " focus " . |
| 4 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 5 | This question produces as varied a response as the first . |
| 6 | Only 5 per cent of women want a child within the first year , and 12 per cent prefer to wait until after the fifth year of marriage . |
| 7 | I found a pensione on the first floor of a small square , run by a woman so enormous that she could hardly move . |
| 8 | Their generosity was appreciated being so willing to give some time explaining to a fellow enthusiast the intricacies of steaming a locomotive for the first time and the difficulties which had been experienced in the rebuilding process . |
| 9 | Louis has sent me to deliver a message to his friend whose family occupy a flat on the first floor , below us . |
| 10 | More fundamentally , many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach . |
| 11 | This would be considered a success for a first release from a fairly new act . |
| 12 | Macaulay already has a fortune from the first Home Alone , third biggest movie money-maker of all time after ET and Star Wars , grossing Pounds 300 million . |
| 13 | If Young is an example of the second type of early headhunter identified , then the firm also has a representative of the first , in Vice-Admiral Sir Ian McIntosh . |
| 14 | . Where we have a client who has a need for the first ten years for it looks like a hundred and ninety thousand pounds worth of life cover , at the end of the ten year period , the need is reduced , maybe the children have left home , so sum assu , assured reduces down to , in this case , it looks like to be about fifty thousand for the rest of the time . |
| 15 | It is one thing to win the support of electors by defeating an enemy for the first time ; it is quite another to expect admiration for slaying the same dragon twice . |
| 16 | In some versions of this type of forecasting , the buyer is obliged to purchase the requirements detailed in the first three months of the rolling forecast , so that , in effect , as he rolls his forecast on , he places an order for the first three months ' requirements and forecasts those of the next nine months . |
| 17 | To train an infant for the first year is comparatively easy , but after that the child begins to resent authority , and the conscientious mother has to be prepared to fight and win all along the line , in matters small and great . |
| 18 | But is there really any likelihood of landing an interview with the First Lady ? |
| 19 | All four applicants in that case sought a declaration that the Secretary of State was not entitled to set a date for the first review of his case on the basis of the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 20 | Apparently Lothar received a majority on the first ballot , but not the two-thirds majority made necessary by the constitution " Licet de vitanda " of the Third Lateran Council of 1179 . |
| 21 | When saving a file for the first time a SUMMARY INFORMATION menu may be displayed . |
| 22 | I should be most grateful if you could include the Library 's name on your mailing list to receive a copy of the first and subsequent numbers of the above periodical . |
| 23 | Twenty-two patients complained of angina ( 16 with Grade 1/2 using the New York Heart Association classification ) , 5 had cardiac dyspnoea ( all Grade 2 ) , and 2 had suffered a reinfarction within the first year period . |
| 24 | When the alarm was given , the animals would be driven into the ground floor of the Pele Tower , the local families would ascend a ladder to the first floor , the women and children climbing again to the bower above and the men to the roof , where they would repulse the invaders . |
| 25 | My first-class debut for Natal in December 1988 I scored a century in the first innings . |
| 26 | When you conduct a symphony for the first time you may fear a breakdown in every bar . |
| 27 | James got the part after his mother , Beverley , 33 , heard that Yorkshire TV were seeking a replacement for the first Oscar , Ross Marriott . |
| 28 | Hooley 's gilded years came to an abrupt end in June 1898 , when he himself filed a petition for the first and most sensational of his four bankruptcies . |
| 29 | Police at Milton Keynes are still hunting the so called Fisherm , ead Rapist who has attacked eight women … latest figures from the Thames Valley Police show an increase in the first three months of 1990 there were two hundred and one offences … in the same period this year two hundred and twenty seven … an increase of 13 per cent … |
| 30 | Fretting a string at the first and sixteenth frets simultaneously gives around 0.5mm gap between the string and the top of the ninth fret on the D-18 model , and about 0.7mm on the D-32 . |