Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] the first " in BNC.

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1 The textual space separating the first from later instances of the item " flock " shows the attentiveness required of the reader ( pp. 135 , 145 , 163 , 169 ) .
2 Mark the length of the second piece using the first as your guide .
3 This new concern , among social thinkers of different persuasions , with the opportunities for peaceful change no doubt results in part from a revulsion against the extreme violence characterizing the first half of the twentieth century , and against the authoritarian political regimes which some kinds of violence have brought into existence , as well as from a deep-seated and pervasive apprehension of the ultimate consequences of violence in the age of nuclear weapons .
4 Mr Parsons looked down at me at last , and I could see a different embarrassment replacing the first as he met my ironic eye .
5 Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect .
6 Ted and I discovered her once in the ripped-out kitchen running through a symphony of his noises like a proud mother reproducing the first words of a child .
7 The latter form is becoming extremely popular these days , a recent event witnessing the first 100 plus participants in a sponsored abseil over Malham Cove .
8 For amplification of genomic DNA , the α AChR gene 's P3A/P4 region ( 6 ) was used with a forward primer containing the first 21 bases of exon P3A , 5'GGG.AAT.TCG.ACA.TGG.TAG.ATC.TGC.CAC 3' ( position 235–256 ) and the reverse primer containing 22 bases of exon P4 , 5' AAA.GCT.TCC.ATT.TTA.GGT.TGT .
9 The West Country trainer and champion jockey Peter Scudamore got off to a flying start winning the first three races with odds-on shots Mohana , Slavi and Skipping Tim .
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