Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite onerous hours — he starts work at 4am and leaves the office about midnight having scanned the first editions of the next day 's newspapers — he has faith in his product , although he cheerfully admits that it needs tweaked into shape . |
| 2 | But Morland having won the first round is confident of surviving … |
| 3 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 4 | The chance of the monkey happening to get the first letter — M — right is therefore 1 in 27 . |
| 5 | Although rain ruled out any real chance of a positive result on the last day the Leewards batsmen never batted with enough urgency having established a first innings lead . |
| 6 | The term he had spent at school trying to understand the first thing about physics had been wasted . |