Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moed & Vriens found , in their study of inaccuracies in citations 146 , that the largest single cause of discrepancies was the method of dealing with compound names , such as van , van der , de , Mac , and hyphenated names ( some authorities cite under the first part , some under the second , some ignore the hyphen ) . |
| 2 | Moed & Vriens found , in their study of inaccuracies in citations , that the largest single cause of discrepancies was the method of dealing with compound names , such as van , van der , de , Mac , and hyphenated names ( some authorities cite under the first part , some under the second , some ignore the hyphen ) . |
| 3 | Though the Lions ' backs have the credentials and Winterbottom and Dean Richards have been in the heat of a Lions Test scrum , there are six forwards who will be experiencing a Lions Test for the first time . |
| 4 | However , the reformulation appeals to theoretical notions which the authors discuss in the first chapter of the book , and it is unlikely that what was said about mutual cognitive environments in the first chapter is accessible for use for the interpretation of a passage about style in the final chapter . |
| 5 | Most examinees belong to the first class , most examiners to the third . |
| 6 | If reserves play in the first team they still charge first team prices . |
| 7 | Yet one study showed that about one in five of all premarital pregnancies occur in the first month of a sexual relationship , and half within the first six months . |
| 8 | Leonard , who plays more golf in the summer than bowls , partners Irish international senior skip and Lisnagarvey club mate Noel Graham in their bid to win the Irish pairs title for the first time since the brilliant Fisher and Ringland combination won it for the Lisburn club in 1970 . |
| 9 | Some galleries project from the first floor of the house ; others are on barn buildings above the yard . |
| 10 | Masur does incidentally , even in this live performance , observe the exposition repeat in the first movement . |
| 11 | The net costs of Eagle Lodges appear for the first time in the income and expenditure account and are largely attributable to setting up costs as there was little income from occupancy during 1990 . |
| 12 | Check whether any of the reasons for not paying SSP apply on the first day of the PIW . |
| 13 | These effects relate to the first encounter with words in a text . |
| 14 | The new equipment was delivered to Fettes Row during the first week in February and located in the East machine room . |
| 15 | Production and shipment has already begun , and the contracts extend through the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 16 | When the delegates from Western literature meet on the first day to pray for their existence , there is an attempted disruption of the ceremony by Muslim fundamentalists who claim to object to the Christian format of the proceedings , but , as we later discover , their real target is the elusive Gibreel Farishta whom they are trying to punish for his heretical views . |
| 17 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 18 | TORBREX Wanderers have done much to keep the Scottish Indoor League championship race open by beating fellow Dundonians Menzieshill for the first time in the league last month . |
| 19 | History in the making at Barbados : West Indian and South African players and officials meet for the first time in a Test match . |
| 20 | Collections drop for the first time in a decade |
| 21 | A spokesman at IBM Corp 's East European headquarters in Vienna claimed that the company exceeded the internal sales targets set for the first quarter of 1993 , and succeeded in increasing its turnover in the region by around 30% when compared with the same period last year . |
| 22 | In view of the complexity of the psycholinguistic abilities which contribute to normal language functioning , it is perhaps not surprising that attempts to explain how these abilities emerge in the first place and are orchestrated into the unified process which we recognise as language have met with only limited success . |
| 23 | Gedge 's parents say the band live for the first time at Manchester 's salubrious Ritz Club . |
| 24 | Torrance , who has played in the last six Ryder Cup matches and badly wants to figure in the next at the Belfry in September , shot his 69 despite having a nose bleed for the first time in his life early in the morning , then again on the course . |
| 25 | If a wasp or bee has to die in order to convey the message of its coloration , how did warning colours evolve in the first place ? |
| 26 | After the violent conditions that erm we think occurred in the early life of the earth and injected energy and churned up the atmosphere and formed the prebiotic molecules , we find that just those same molecules are actually in the clouds in space , and these clouds are the basic raw material from which stars and plants form in the first place , so we might ask the question could they have got into the earth 's atmosphere without this intermediate process , and I think there are mechanisms whereby these molecules can accrete into the earth 's atmosphere , and it certainly suggests that we should look at thse and certainly not be taken as a foregone conclusion that the Uray/Miller experiments are the only mechanism whereby the prebiotic soup was formed . |
| 27 | About one third of all cases recover after the first episode of alopecia areata , and never get another bald patch . |
| 28 | Despite these promises there was no significant improvement in Peru 's human rights record in the first year of the new government . |
| 29 | Approximately half of all reinfarcts occur within the first month and the rest tail out to one year . |
| 30 | Although James Braid is correctly credited with the course design , the Sandwich Professional was also involved for both their names appear on the first year 's accounts published in July 1908 for ‘ laying out , and advising as to links ’ , their respective fees being £15 6s. 6d. and £5 . |