Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students who wish to enter a combined course must complete the first year satisfactorily , with passes in two units in each of the two subjects which they wish to combine . |
| 2 | Also any major life event is stressful and this experience may precipitate the first symptoms of anxiety . |
| 3 | A footprint in a muddy field could provide the first real lead for police hunting the man who 's become known as the horse ripper . |
| 4 | No candidate who fails to see this point can get a first class on that question . |
| 5 | DEC says its results for this quarter will reflect the first growth in its business for eight quarters . |
| 6 | Mac-on-Unix house Quorum Software Systems Inc , a hit at last year 's UniForum , this week will stage the first public , albeit belated , showing of its Equal end-user product at the Silicon Graphics Inc and Sparc International booths . |
| 7 | Mac-on-Unix house Quorum Software Systems , a hit at last year 's Uniforum , this week will stage the first public , albeit belated , showing of its end-user product Equal at the Silicon Graphics and Sparc International booths . |
| 8 | It follows an editorial policy that believes foreign news should lead the first three pages , that matters of national interest should be philosophically debated in the newspaper 's columns , and that half a page of sport either side of the weekend is enough . |
| 9 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 10 | An oval orbit would falsify the first but not the second , whereas any orbit that falsifies the second will also falsify the first . |
| 11 | The Prime Minister should answer the first part of that question , but not the second . |
| 12 | The successful candidate must hold a first or second class honours degree . |
| 13 | The normal form will characterise the first step of a process ' behaviour using the highest levels of syntax , and rely on inner levels to deal with subsequent steps . |
| 14 | This sawn surface will become the first face of the section , and it is lapped with paraffin oil and 600F Carborundum on the precision lapping machine . |
| 15 | Schoolchildren from Whinfield Junior School will deposit the first cans into the bank in the car park of the Gateway Foodmarket on Whinbush Way . |
| 16 | This is not considered in much detail by Marslen-Wilson and Tyler ( 1980 ) ; however , they do suggest that the acoustic-phonetic information needed to define the word-initial cohort must include the first vowel of the word . |
| 17 | The Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday it was hoped that next week would see the first dairy farms released from the restriction orders . |
| 18 | The analysis of these data together with the use of hitherto unused qualitative information will provide the first detailed and accurate account of bank behaviour with respect to lending practice and thus allow a proper assessment of the central issues . |