Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If reserves play in the first team they still charge first team prices . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Masur does incidentally , even in this live performance , observe the exposition repeat in the first movement . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Despite these promises there was no significant improvement in Peru 's human rights record in the first year of the new government . |
| 9 | The origins of this popular movement lie in the first wave of pressure for disarmament , which began with the emergence of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) in 1958 and ended in 1964 , with its decline in the face of the new Labour Government 's failure to rid itself of nuclear weapons . |
| 10 | Cork go through to face Turkish champions Galatasaray in the first round proper of the European Cup . |
| 11 | Half the irritability and lack of moral control which spoil adult life originate in the first year of existence . |
| 12 | The move comes in the wake of the British Lions defeat in the first RU Test against the All Blacks . |
| 13 | Why did the Third World borrow in the first place ? |
| 14 | Gloucester who are licking their wounds are off to Pontypool while four local sides play in the first round of the Pilkington Cup |
| 15 | WEST INDIAN umpire Steve Bucknor stepped in to prevent crowd trouble getting out of hand as India ground their way to a 23-run first innings lead in the first Test against South Africa here yesterday . |
| 16 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority introduced ‘ the 80/20 rule , ’ under which fundholders agreed to contract for 80% of their hospital services budget in the first year to go to the same hospitals as in the preparatory year , leaving them free to move the remaining 20% if they so wished . |
| 17 | In cases of this sort , inferences arise to preserve the assumption of cooperation ; it is only by making the assumption contrary to superficial indications that the inferences arise in the first place . |
| 18 | The medieval fabliaux in English belong in the first instance to the context of medieval England , and are not to be seen as foreign intruders disguised in the clothing of the Middle English language . |
| 19 | In any case , among scholars whose careers fall in the first half of the sixteenth century note should be made of Sinaneddin Yusuf , mentioned above ; of Molla Pir Ahmad Celebi b . |
| 20 | The majority of these deaths occur in the first hour and it is important to realise that if early ventricular fibrillation is survived the ultimate outcome is unaffected . |