Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Trees seemed to be waiting for Tealtaoich to make the first move and the largest of the Oaks had inclined their heads quite courteously . |
| 2 | The issue number can be specified as an actual number ( eg. 01.01 , 01.01A ) , or as F to indicate the first version of the module . |
| 3 | The issue number can be specified as an actual number ( eg. 01.01 , 01.01A ) , or as F to indicate the first version of the module . |
| 4 | The issue number can be specified as an actual number ( eg. 01.01 , 01.01A ) , or as F to indicate the first version of the module . |
| 5 | The issue number can be specified as an actual number ( eg. 01.01 , 01.01A ) , or as F to indicate the first version of the package . |
| 6 | The issue number can be specified as an actual number ( eg. 01.01 , 01.01A ) , or as F to indicate the first version of the module . |
| 7 | In 1985 , however , the Ministry of Agriculture took a first step towards meeting environmentalists ' objections , with a new ‘ Guidance for Drainage Authorities ’ on investment appraisal . |
| 8 | In a narrow sense my main interest is the period in which the Kaiser ruled over Germany , which of course includes the First World War . |
| 9 | It will be seen that the top line of activities repeats the first stage of the company strategic plan as it affects R&D . |
| 10 | President Havel of Czechoslovakia became the first head of state on July 19 to ratify the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , signed by the six Warsaw Pact and 16 NATO member countries in November 1990 [ see p. 37838 ] , and which entailed sharp reductions in troops , tanks and weaponry . |
| 11 | The pattern of Europe was squarely placed upon the city of Jerusalem when , in 1100 , Baldwin of Boulogne became the first King of Jerusalem . |
| 12 | Initialisation involves a change of handshape to represent the first letter of the English translation of the sign ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 13 | The firm of Longman claims the first dust jacket , on Heath 's Keepsake for 1835 . |
| 14 | Gold EIA went ahead to commission the Centre for Environmental Management and Planning at the University of Aberdeen to undertake the first phase of the EIA , its scoping . |
| 15 | The Wall-Paintings of Thera provides a first opportunity to see all the excavated frescos . |
| 16 | Shellac records were simply too fragile to be posted ; so the special circumstances of war justified the first vinyl records . |
| 17 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 18 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 19 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 20 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 21 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 22 | Thus the Book of Daniel provides the first intimation of that apocalyptic interpretation of contemporary struggles which was to become an ordinary feature of the later rebellions of the Jews against foreign rule . |
| 23 | In 1987 Conservative ministers boasted of their success while still claiming that the conquest of inflation remained the first objective of policy . |
| 24 | In icy American logging camps it was common for the cook to detonate small amounts of dynamite to cook the first meal of the day , which brought a whole new meaning to bangers for breakfast . |
| 25 | This year sees the centenary of Peter Rabbit and since Wedgwood already dominates this characterware market segment the company has added a special range of items to celebrate the first appearance of Beatrix Potter 's famous character . |
| 26 | The King James translation of the Book of Genesis renders the first line as In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth , confident that prior to God there was nothing , that Yahweh created the universe ex nihilo . |
| 27 | The 46-year-old Arkansas Governor stormed to a series of victories to become the first Democrat in the White House since the departure of Jimmy Carter in 1980 . |
| 28 | In the 1952 election campaign the Republicans promised to take a tough line with the Russians , and the appointment of John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State seemed the first step in fulfilling that pledge . |
| 29 | In 1971 , about 10% of marriages involved the first marriage of one party to a divorced partner and 4% involved the remarriage of two divorcees ; by 1989 , these proportions had risen to 19% and 13% respectively . |
| 30 | By the time of the Treaty of Vienna and the Concert of Europe , such a system had become formalized , and the Treaty of Versailles following the First World War brought in many more participants ( and took power to create new States , like Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia ) . |