Example sentences of "[adv prt] the first [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parenting education might begin in schools and continue over the first few years of married life ( Pound et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 2 | With a solo exhibition of the works of Klaus Suss from Chemnitz ( until 5 May ) , Gunar Barthel continues its introduction to the artists who set up the first collective gallery of the GDR ( called ‘ Clara Mosch ’ using the initial letters of the names of its founder members ) . |
| 3 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 4 | A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose ! |
| 5 | In January 1990 Prime Minister V. P. Singh made some low-level appointments to the Council of Ministers [ see p. 37346 ] , and carried out the first major expansion of his Ministry in late April [ see p. 37378 ] . |
| 6 | Booth and Rowntree , in the late nineteenth century , carried out the first major surveys of income and consumption in London and York respectively , which laid the foundations for a style of social research which was , in the coming years , to play a major role in the formation of policy and social welfare legislation in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | from the first , an Australian marathon runner , take out the first two letters of his forename. from the second , an American sprinter , we want another two letters , this time the first two from his surname . |
| 8 | We had to blow out the first two weeks of an American tour . ’ |
| 9 | He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand . |
| 10 | This project will carry out the first longitudinal study of the relationships between health and health related behaviour ; education and training ; and employment in men . |