Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , as we shall see , this evidence has proved largely illusory , but the presentation of the gens stage as a real historical one presents Engels right from the first with the theoretical difficulties which were to plague Marxist anthropology afterwards . |
| 2 | It was his pick-up and feed from a scrum which sent David Wright in for the first of his tries and then the No. 8 charged over from a similar situation to grab the lead on the stroke of half-time . |
| 3 | The series moves to Candlestick Park tonight for the first of three games on the West Coast . |
| 4 | Mark Nicholson , who plays for Scottish Students next month against the English Students , ran from his own 22 to put Gareth Williams over for the first of the visitors ' seven tries . |
| 5 | Kristeva 's own voice is recorded in this volume only in the first of the essays , ‘ The Adolescent Novel ’ , but each of the subsequent pieces variously addresses aspects of her work . |
| 6 | So I mean if you were to finish on the thirty first of August then on the first of September . |
| 7 | The modern practice of numbering the days of the month consecutively from the first to the last came to the West from Syria and Egypt in the second half of the sixth century . |
| 8 | Er we do the sales sometimes on the first on most cases now on the first er interview . |
| 9 | Inspector Morse returns to our screens tonight in the first of what will be the penultimate series . |