Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 2 | Trident sub goes down for the first time |
| 3 | It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in . |
| 4 | Gael , who is not religious , holds only with the first half of the double limerick according to which existence depends on being the object of another 's perception . |
| 5 | However the continuation of active addictive disease is even more boring and oppressive and the initial enthusiasm usually matures gradually within the first year of recovery . |
| 6 | The Christian theme occurs right from the first line with the word ‘ ministry ’ and the hidden word ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 7 | The oral phase occurs in about the first year of a child 's life . |
| 8 | KEVIN COOMBS Norman Lamont arrives yesterday for the first meeting of the Cabinet since the Budget |
| 9 | Deliveries of Cuban sugar , which arrives mainly in the first half of the year , load the Soviet sugar factories ' productive capacities in the period when they are not processing sugar beet ( Kolodov : 1984 , p. 16 ) . |
| 10 | The Association meets regularly on the first Friday of each month , at the RE Centre , when mass is said by our chaplain , Fr. |
| 11 | Think first about the repetitions Blake uses : ‘ charter 'd ’ occurs twice in the first stanza , and ‘ marks ’ three times . |
| 12 | Stan Bate , his worship the Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent , drives off from the first tee to open officially the city 's new municipal golf course at Weston Coyney . |
| 13 | On the other side of the energy account book is the surface energy , 2 G.l , which is needed to form the new surfaces and clearly this increases only as the first power of the depth of the crack . |
| 14 | It deals only with the first stage . |
| 15 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 16 | In a letter to The Scotsman , Dr Peter Sanders , the commission 's chief executive , confirms publicly for the first time that the report ‘ reveals distorted representation of children from ethnic minorities living in Glasgow , in special educational needs categories ’ . |
| 17 | So she goes up to the first man and she goes , hi , handsome , and he goes , hello , hello and he 's erected , right . |
| 18 | Mansell 's Newman-Haas team-mate Mario Andretti lines up on the first row after finishing second fastest qualifier with 223.414 mph . |
| 19 | In most cases , the stem simply withers back to the first node , and remains as an unsightly brown spur . |
| 20 | The private sector of rented accommodation has become a relatively minor part of the housing market and its long-term decline certainly stretches back to the First World War . |
| 21 | Their protests gained renewed impetus in the suffrage struggles immediately before the First War . |
| 22 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 23 | One ‘ sweetener ’ , deliberately leaked beforehand , is likely to be the widening of the 20 per cent income tax , which currently applies only to the first £2,000 of taxable income . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the company is working on getting Kbus-based half-gigabyte RAM boards out in the first quarter , followed 1GB boards in the second though that later date is still kind of iffy . |
| 25 | The additional list of tempos by Czerny for Mozart quartets and quintets in table 1 , which appears here for the first time , also shows a similarly wide range of minuet tempos , from slow to fast ( for quartets and quintets , dotted minim = 44–84 ; together with the list of tempos by Czerny and Hummel for the Mozart symphonies , dotted minim = 42–88 see table 2 of my 1988 Early music article ) . |
| 26 | Every teacher probably derives more from the first teacher with whom he works than any other and I have no doubt in my mind that Basil was by far the most influential person in my first years as a teacher . |
| 27 | Tom turns his head in embarrassment and has it explained to him that his regular caddie has gone back to Orville Moody , and I 'm his new one , so he says , ‘ OK ’ , and walks on to the first tee . |
| 28 | There was a lot of noise ; people were getting bets down on the first pair . |
| 29 | A HUMID evening in Boston early last summer ; afternoon rain has cleared , and at Fenway Park the lead-off batter for the visiting Baltimore Orioles steps up for the first pitch from the Red Sox . |
| 30 | The NatWest Hospital Income Plan covers you in the event of hospitalisation and pays out from the first day you 're admitted . |