Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 2 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |
| 3 | Indeed , only when the first wail of an approaching siren drifted up from below did Ursula remark : ‘ I suppose we 'll have to tell them everything . ’ |
| 4 | Then he reached the first green of the tournament proper — rather than the first green of the practice rounds . |
| 5 | Thus if the first purpose of a particular religion is to help people to a sense of the presence of God and express a response to God , then the study of the ritual which helps them towards this goal must constantly draw attention to this significance . |
| 6 | It was not until the first half of the fourteenth-century that Azzone Visconti reinforced the structure with walls . |
| 7 | Birkenhead-born Swain , who tasted life at the top as a player with Chelsea , Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa , said : ‘ Relegation is a terrible feeling for everyone involved and it wo n't go away until the first game of the season . |
| 8 | Devices like Hewlett-Packard 's DeskJet are becoming very significant in the office market just as the first wave of page printers is due to be pensioned off |
| 9 | ( A ) That an amount borne by the Insured of a party hereto as the first portion of the cost of each accident shall apply in priority to : — |
| 10 | According to the cohort model , however , as soon as the first part of the word has been heard , all the detectors for words beginning with this initial sound are activated . |
| 11 | I did , from the moment we met , almost as soon as the first throb of the Mantela 's engines announced that we were on our way . |
| 12 | The Boer War was on and the first sort of major conflict erm in the period of movie history , and naturally people wanted to see what the war was like . |
| 13 | It hath been the wisdom of the church of England , ever since the first compiling of her Publick Liturgy , to keep the mean between two extremes , of too much stiffness in refusing , and of too much easiness in admitting any variation from it … |
| 14 | Market research surveys were probably the first type of opinion survey to be used and as early as the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 15 | The fact of these men 's having been guided argues a body of local botanical knowledge as early as the first part of the 17th century . |
| 16 | The second order has to be constructed interpretively while the first order of signification can be constructed on the criterion of meaningful/non-meaningful . |
| 17 | Moreover , Tucker ( 1987 ) has pointed out that the first period of large-scale deforestation in northern India occurred in the 1850s and 1860s as the British colonisation of India gained momentum and railways were constructed to gain access to the upper Ganges and Indus plains . |
| 18 | Now that the first batch of boat people has successfully been dispatched , the government intends to move swiftly to step up the deportations . |
| 19 | ‘ Now if the first symptom of illness came anywhere near Luke — ’ She turned to him , her eyes mischievous between the sweep of dark lashes , ‘ If — ’ |
| 20 | But the stars soon lost their sheen and went out as the first strain of light eased away the darkness . |
| 21 | It is another nail in the coffin of deterrence even if the first generation of cruise will be slow for such a role . |
| 22 | The first Carmelites landed in England 750 years ago and the first celebration of the anniversary was held at the Minster . |
| 23 | Indeed this ‘ gender neutral ’ definition of sexism has become so prevalent even since the first edition of this book was written , it is necessary in this revised edition to be much more explicit about my use of the term . |
| 24 | Immediately after the first wave of evacuation had taken place there was a chorus of outrage from reception areas about some of the evacuees — evidently those from the poorest homes in inner-city areas — who were said to be filthy , verminous , incontinent , ungrateful and thoroughly ill-mannered . |
| 25 | Indeed , even after the first wave of evacuation had taken place it was the view of the Board of Education that ‘ if there were any further large-scale evacuation it would probably be a hasty one , occasioned by sudden and serious bombing . |
| 26 | Enough if I have shown that if we care to do so , we can illustrate the second as well as the first half of what I may call the Plowden proposition . |
| 27 | It is therefore no surprise that local opposition to the LDDC has continued for over eight years now , even though the first chairman of the LDDC , Nigel Broackes of Trafalgar House , predicted that within a few years local opposition ‘ will not exist ’ . |
| 28 | Rock'n'roll was born in a London office two months earlier when the first issue of the NME was ‘ put to bed ’ . |