Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [art] first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 2 | You do n't need a theological background to see there is a difference between the way that Paul writes in the first part of chapter 15 and in the second . |
| 3 | The sophistication and range of this style of cooking grew , as Sheila describes in the first chapter of her book . |
| 4 | Deep slow wave sleep ( Stages 3 and 4 ) predominates in the first half of the night . |
| 5 | Within manufacture , the precise form of division depends in the first instance on the historical precursors of the capitalistic form of production in the given branch of industry — whether the ‘ manufacturer ’ ( a ) draws together previously separate trades into one workshop to produce a common product or ( b ) splits up a previously unified craft production process into its component tasks . |
| 6 | The answer to such questions depends in the first place upon what we mean by ‘ syndrome ’ . |
| 7 | So from the relationship that developed during that period we developed the collaboration which features in the first section of Passion . |
| 8 | is judged to be acceptable , because it can be ‘ completed ’ by squirted with the hose , and that exact phrase occurs in the first part of the sentence . |
| 9 | Remove flower stems in the first year for a stronger bushier plant . |
| 10 | The following example comes from the interview with Sally Jordan , a factory worker and a dustman 's wife ; she belongs in the first group of working-class women whose early positive or non-committal response turns into predominantly negative feeling : |
| 11 | Gorbachev on Dec. 4 had announced to the USSR Supreme Soviet emergency plans to import basic foodstuffs to the value of 2,100 million roubles ( US$1,050 million at the new commercial exchange rate ) to ensure that supplies in the first quarter of 1991 were at the levels of the same period in 1990 . |
| 12 | Such infusion of caerulein in chronic pancreatic fistula rats caused a marked increase in protein output from basal secretion of 10 mg/30 minutes to 40 mg/30 minutes in the first hour of infusion followed by a decline in protein output to 15–20 mg/30 minutes in the following hours of the experiment . |
| 13 | Jews and the ‘ Jewish Question , were mentioned as such neither in Hitler 's New Year exhortation to his Party at the beginning of 1932 , nor in his notorious speech to the Düsseldorfer Industrieklub in January , nor in his ‘ Appeal to the Nation ’ , sold as a record in July and typical of his election addresses in the first half of the year . |
| 14 | If the searched-for item is less than the mid-point ( for words this means the searched-for item comes earlier in the alphabet than the item at the mid-point ) , then the search continues in the first half of the structure , if it is greater , the search continues in the second half of the structure . |
| 15 | The frequency of intercourse approximately halves in the first year of marriage but takes about 20 years to halve again . |
| 16 | In Scotland and Wales there is the same pressure for equal treatment but it comes in the first instance from MPs who will pounce on any discrepancies and ask why England ( or Scotland and Wales ) is receiving special treatment . |