Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | To examine the relation between birth weight and β cell function in the first degree relatives of non-insulin dependent diabetic subjects . |
| 2 | I think I think it is a good idea though to erm oh right er to y'know kind of break it up a bit er particularly if at an early stage you 're intending to y'know kind of go through erm and get people to go through quite a lot of questions erm as a by way of er y'know kind of the first stages in in er developing this thing . |
| 3 | Although the period from Christmas to the end of February — MMT 's accounting period for the first six months of its fiscal year ends then — was very quiet because a lot of orders were completed around that time , Haines says trading has now picked up again . |
| 4 | After several decades of charting children 's vocabulary growth in the first half of the twentieth century , researchers began to focus on children 's acquisition of grammar-the rules for combining words into the sequences permissible in a language like English , e.g. , the big boy but not *the boy big , He brought the book , but not *He brought . |
| 5 | Equally dramatic has been the emergence of a new venue , the former Gas Works , converted into a theatre almost at the drop of a hat , a transformation that clearly shook last night 's capacity audience at the first performance in the Klondyke Building . |
| 6 | JO DURIE and Clare Wood gave British tennis a welcome boost when they beat defending champions Holland 2–1 to win the European women 's team event for the first time in Prague yesterday . |
| 7 | The horses ' drinking-water tank had been topped up , she said , by a hosepipe from the city 's water supply during the first twenty minutes of our stop in Thunder Bay , in a procedure that she herself had supervised . |
| 8 | New Bradwell and Stantonbury 's water supply in the first instance was from individual or shared wells . |
| 9 | He was convinced he had probably cost Orrell the chance in the next 12 days of becoming England 's champion club for the first time . |
| 10 | Mrs Tibbs 's boarding house in the first of the tales is characteristic , although it is not Dickens at his later best : |
| 11 | In 1987 , the service had to compete for the hospital 's laundry contract for the first time and in 1993 , it will have to submit another tender . ’ |
| 12 | Aston Villa , with eight wins from their previous nine League matches , managed to nudge Liverpool 's writing arm in the first half every time a cogent word or telling flourish was about to be penned . |
| 13 | Britain 's trade gap in the first six months of this year was £6 billion — nearly the total Chancellor Lamont had predicted for the whole year back in March . |
| 14 | Elizabeth Taylor 's film role as the first female rider to win the race in Hollywood 's ‘ National Velvet ’ , was pure fiction . |
| 15 | ‘ As the Sun now recognises , the publication did cause personal offence to the Queen but it also caused offence amongst those who prefer to hear or see Her Majesty 's Christmas Message for the first time on Christmas Day . ’ |
| 16 | The 0.1% productivity rise in the first six months of this recession compares with an average fall of 1.2% ( at an annual rate ) in the same period of the past four recessions . |
| 17 | This is a petition for a nurs nursery class within the first school . |