Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have trained the nurse caring for this infant to recognize the first signs of desire for food . |
| 2 | Place three of the wider ones on top of each other to form the first tower . |
| 3 | Morgan , and one a German , Georg Siemens — put together the French theory of entrepreneurial banking and the English theory of commercial banking to create the first successful modern banks , J.P . |
| 4 | OSF which is said to have already started coding for the GAIA specification , has slated the middle of next year to deliver the first snapshots of the specification . |
| 5 | However , later in the Predynastic Period it was a ruler of Upper Egypt who conquered Lower Egypt , uniting the two kingdoms into one state to found the First Dynasty . |
| 6 | They are badly needed : as Green has said , ‘ It would be easy for clinical research to become the first and indeed the greatest casualty of reductions in size in London . ’ |
| 7 | But the conquest of the 400ers brought a new age , with fresh eyes hungrily seeking steeper rock and ice that demanded a willingness to take a quantum leap in technical difficulty to achieve a first . |
| 8 | The study draws together the results of five years ' work by the investigator and the findings of the ESRC 's extensive research programme in this field to provide the first comprehensive account of central-local relationships in the UK for nearly twenty years . |
| 9 | I have made few attempts in this chapter to give the first references to ideas or discoveries . |
| 10 | ‘ Basically we have adopted the original Decca configuration of microphones used from the 1950s through to the 1970s , but we do n't use a tree microphone in the middle of the orchestra ; we have a three-point microphone in front of the conductor and an omni-pair on either side to cover the first violin and first cello . |