Example sentences of "their first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can tell a lot about all the characters in ‘ Great Expectations ’ from their first appearances in the novel . |
| 2 | Adelaida points out the different groups : the ‘ grandmothers ’ , who sit in the sun spinning and chatting ; the ‘ complete illiterates ’ , mostly older Aymara women who are making their first letters with painstaking care ; the ’ functional illiterates ’ who have had some schooling and progress more rapidly ; and the groups which practise their recently acquired literacy skills using materials on health and nutrition . |
| 3 | As a result , they lost tons of money when punk rockers trashed concert halls during their first shows . |
| 4 | The stars were often very idiosyncratic in the way they wrote up their first ascents . |
| 5 | The new Foundation for Educational Research ( later the National Foundation , NFER ) saw the development of record cards as one of their first tasks . |
| 6 | norways coach egil ‘ drillo ’ olsen today speak up on our international players who are not in their first teams : ‘ come home or be wrecked from the national team ’ ( and thus no USA'94 ) ( this in one of the tabloids over here ) — the players mentioned are |
| 7 | Lying in rows on the floor , we breathed deeply without pause , the idea being that we can cleanse our bodies of negative thoughts and that some , by actually reliving the experience of their birth , can release their first hang-ups . |
| 8 | Ipswich had not played at Roots Hall since the 1950s , although Southend were , in fact , their first opponents in the Football League . |
| 9 | However the agency says they 'd always intended to make a radical redistribution of wealth between fathers and their first families . |
| 10 | Most of the pilots were unconcerned if they were five feet or more to the side on their first attempts . |
| 11 | Their first attempts to invent an anti-hero strong enough to vie with the popularity of Tarzan and Superman , and soft enough to melt the hearts of children , did not quite come off : ‘ I drew him bigger and more handsome . |
| 12 | They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism . |
| 13 | Their first attempts were to win the prisoners ' ‘ Co-operation ’ by bribing them with the offer of better conditions . |
| 14 | So subjects were not , on their first attempts , exploiting the opportunities offered by the dynamic aspects of the decision problem . |
| 15 | ‘ Getting babies hooked on soft drinks even before their first teeth have come through verges on the criminal , ’ said children 's health writer Dr Tim Lobstein . |
| 16 | They played more than 80 shows , including their first dates in Europe . |
| 17 | Written nearly eighty years before as marauding French forces seized their first tracts of territory in Cochin-China , they reflected his own deep conviction , derived from a totally different experience , in the ultimate supremacy of the spirit of man . |
| 18 | Despite their rousing calls for a cinema that was ‘ vital , illuminating , ’ and their polemic against a national cinema divorced from contemporary realities , they turned to a series of novels set in the English provinces for material out or which to make their first movies . |
| 19 | Stage 1 invites group members to spend five minutes in quiet reflection , a space in which to clear minds crowded with concerns of the teaching day , to focus on the cartoon and commit their first reactions to paper . |
| 20 | The islanders were successful in their first sorties , they stole some guns , and they took their first prisoner , one Harry Butt , who seemed glad to give up without a struggle . |
| 21 | We excluded such cells from our analysis and studied 100 of the remaining cells , chosen at random , through their first divisions . |
| 22 | This later took the form of a public advertisement in which UUUC supporters were urged to distribute their first preferences evenly as between five candidates on a geographical basis according to the polling stations at which they voted . |
| 23 | Mr Maginnis 's 12 years as a councillor ended when he advised voters to give their first preferences to his two party colleagues . |
| 24 | Their first pints washed down the sandwiches . |
| 25 | The eldest boy was endowed with the family name of John and the over-high expectations that the family had for their first sons . |
| 26 | At their first meetings in Bristol during the autumn of 1795 each had at once recognized in the other a man of extraordinary abilities . |
| 27 | They should be able to record their first thoughts , capture immediate responses and collect and organise ideas so that they are available for reflection . |
| 28 | From the teaching point of view , it is worth noting that Thomas is not under the pressure that children normally face in school of having to get their first thoughts down on paper in a finished , final form . |
| 29 | Indeed , asking subjects their first thoughts on seeing the critical slide confirmed that they were more likely to be thinking about the woman than the general environment in the arousal condition . |
| 30 | With time , and the development of physical and mental abilities , babies are able to make their first moves towards independence . |