Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [art] first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pattern shop was a haven of relative peace and quiet , reminiscent of cottage industry , a place where carpenters fashioned the wooden shapes that contributed the first stage of the moulding process . |
| 2 | This was the issue that dominated the first session of the Council , the only one Pope John knew . |
| 3 | If grey was the colour that characterized the first phase of my time at Harwich , blue characterizes this next phase . |
| 4 | After the deluge that decided the first battle of Ypres , King-Emperor George V arrived at the St Omer Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France , and went away again . |
| 5 | In that sense , Huxley suggested , evolution had no more to do with theism than had the first book of Euclid . |
| 6 | Suzie Chamfer demanded during the animated dormitory chatter that characterised the first night of the new term at the larger boarding school to which at least half their class at Great Stourford had progressed en bloc . |
| 7 | On Fuar Tholl , Wilson and Niall freed the superb Tholl Gate in good condition at V. On Sgurr a'Chaorachian 's north-west buttresses , the chossy summer line Jupiter , a fine but rarely frozen 1200ft I/V , was climbed by Brian Davison and I. We also climbed Eastern Promise , a very steep but co-operative V on the eastern Ramparts of Coire Mhic Fhearchair and made the first ascent of the West-Central Wall by an even steeper line based on Mistral ( VI ) . |
| 8 | But when Strawberry reached under the seat and produced the first bottle of an apparently endless supply of Star Tiger rice spirit we realised it was not going to be that kind of adventure . |
| 9 | His ‘ Wares had left their billets and accomplished the first part of the plan , leaving some of their number behind to allay suspicions . |
| 10 | Then a group of local armourers assembled in the square , were blessed at a makeshift altar and turned the first shovelful of earth on the foundations of the new building . |
| 11 | For , once we have made the first approach to the Landshut Virgin and acquired a first set of impressions , the changeableness of the figure begins to work on us further , now less in the dimension of greater or lesser distance and more in the angle of view . |
| 12 | These students were allocated to the ‘ Oliver Wendell Holmes Society ’ and formed the first group of Harvard students to study under the new system . |
| 13 | They abandoned the mine ; released the rented Forge Houses along with the mineral lease , and offered the first refusal of Dixon Ground Estate to Sir Michael at £450 . |
| 14 | Melvil Dewey , a famous librarian , devised the decimal classification system and published the first edition of it in 1876 , when he was 21 . |
| 15 | Deng did not make a public appearance at the congress itself , but attended the first plenum of the new central committee held on Oct. 19 . |
| 16 | Instead he applied , as had the first Court of Appeal , a combination of the laws of the requesting and requested countries . |