Example sentences of "[noun] be [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The entry is from the first floor . |
| 2 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 3 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 4 | While none of these pictures is of the first rank , some are of interest : Paris Bordone 's ‘ A Courtesan ’ ; Pietro Marescalchi 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned , with Saints James the Greater and Prosdocimus ’ of 1564 and Michele Giambono 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned ’ . |
| 5 | She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship . |
| 6 | The Headmaster 's Study was on the first floor next to Four . |
| 7 | ‘ The first away game I went to was Northampton in the mid-Sixties when Burnley were in the First Division . |
| 8 | The first two rounds were on the first day of the Championships , and I cruised them comfortably . |
| 9 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 10 | The work of the Hague Conference on Private International Law is of the first importance in this area . |
| 11 | The entrance to the gallery is from the first floor . |
| 12 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 13 | The support Peter de Montfort gave Earl Simon was of the first importance . |
| 14 | The native slaves owned by Russians of all social classes were in the first place either prisoners-of-war or women and children captured after the men of a native community had been killed . |
| 15 | Its lessening and perhaps even virtual disappearance in some cases as a culturally-marked developmental period is of the first importance and is one of the most disquieting symptoms of modern social change . |
| 16 | The overall picture is of the first generation harbouring little interest in sport , apart from horse racing ! |
| 17 | Your room 's on the first floor . ’ |
| 18 | Our room is on the first floor . |
| 19 | The silk was of the first order , better than one could obtain nowadays , and had kept in good condition over the years . |
| 20 | It is vital never to grant them absolute rights over nomenclature , or you will end up with a child called Aspirin Muesli Harris as poor Tom was for the first week of his life , until it was overruled as being pagan by the Irish Catholic nurse . |
| 21 | Johnston 's last Premier League appearance was in the first week of October . |
| 22 | Clive Barnes 's room was on the first floor , overlooking the churchyard . |
| 23 | Her room was on the first floor , at the back , opposite the top of the kitchen stairs . |
| 24 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 25 | The atmosphere in the barrack room was like the first day back at school , with everybody trying to outdo each other with stories of how exciting their holidays had been . |
| 26 | Furthermore , we should recall that in modern individuals ( and almost certainly also in the past ) internalized verbal commands and prohibitions are of the first significance in the acquisition of the superego and manifest this aspect of themselves in the auditory hallucinations of accusing and scorning voices so often found in paranoia . |
| 27 | Young people with learning difficulties are for the first time fully included in all the provisions of youth support services rather than being treated under separate legislation . |
| 28 | In the examples given , which seem to be the most common , the primary stress is on the first syllable of the suffix . |
| 29 | The nave is of the first quarter of the 17C and the altars are of the 1670s . |
| 30 | Gordon was on the first ascent of Diagonal with Birtwistle , and also climbed with Menlove Edwards . |