Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Then he reached the first green of the tournament proper — rather than the first green of the practice rounds . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was not until the first half of the fourteenth-century that Azzone Visconti reinforced the structure with walls . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | ( 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 : — |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The second order has to be constructed interpretively while the first order of signification can be constructed on the criterion of meaningful/non-meaningful . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 16 | But the stars soon lost their sheen and went out as the first strain of light eased away the darkness . |
| 17 | It is another nail in the coffin of deterrence even if the first generation of cruise will be slow for such a role . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | Rock'n'roll was born in a London office two months earlier when the first issue of the NME was ‘ put to bed ’ . |