Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb base] [prep] the first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
| 2 | A panel of experts , appointed by the Council of Europe last November to advise the Community , found that some European states have yet to develop rules on recourse to DNA analysis in forensic work — a shortcoming they set as the first priority . |
| 3 | In this paper we report for the first time the isolation of cDNA for a zebrafish POU family gene which is ubiquitously expressed during embryogenesis . |
| 4 | This has made farmers think about changing the amount of money they spend on the first two inputs , shown at X on the diagram . |
| 5 | ‘ Whenever the far end of an active edge A and the near end of an inactive edge I meet for the first time , if I satisfies A 's conditions for extension , then build a new edge as follows : |
| 6 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 7 | Before midday we arrive at the first village and are met by the Mukhtar , Hadji Hanna . |
| 8 | The professors with Middle-European names spend their lives working out what the great inner secret is , that thing you feel at the first glance . |
| 9 | DARLINGTON 'S John Bradley , a student at Bath University , is among the 13 members of the England senior squad who compete in the first World Cup final in Majorca this weekend after qualifying through the recent Cup meets in Europe . |
| 10 | Do whatever you like , I 'm not saying go out and buy War and Peace , because you know , if you do n't , if you 're not into the habit of reading , you pick up War and Peace , and by the time you get through the first page , you say who are all these people ? |
| 11 | So we charge for the time we go to the first address pick the thing up go to the second unload and get back to depot . |
| 12 | Children can start to earn stickers for the chart every time they comply with the first request . |