Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 There were a good many farmers ' sons going in the doors of University College today for the first time .
2 Hodgson was in the witness box yesterday for the first time in the trial — now in its fifth week .
3 Alan Johnson put the home side ahead in the first half with Kevin Langley and Gary Worthington adding further goals after the interval .
4 On the DEC PDP-10 computer , subroutine call instructions are provided for saving the return address either in the first location of a subroutine or in an accumulator ; but it also has call and return instructions which treat a specified area of store as a return address stack , in a manner similar to that described earlier in this section .
5 Thirdly , in some areas — notably health protection , educational exchanges , vocational training and culture — we have defined Community competence clearly for the first time .
6 Let us put now a sheet of opposite charge a distance d away from the first sheet ( fig. 2.14 ) .
7 The house has two good sized reception rooms on the ground floor with a kitchen extension just behind the first floor we have the bathroom , the rear elevation and two bedrooms also access to the third bedroom which has been converted from the attic .
8 José 's parents died in the influenza epidemic just after the First World War .
9 A young childless widow who does not qualify for either of these benefits will no longer be entitled to the weekly national insurance benefit even for the first 26 weeks .
10 There is an in-frame stop codon upstream from the first AUG codon of the open reading frame and this start site is conserved in the human ( 11 ) and mouse ( 22 ) homologs .
11 Texas Instruments Inc reports that it delivered its 100,000th SuperSparc chip early in the first quarter and is now able to produce 50MHz Vikings in quantities of tens of thousands a month and in hundreds of thousands a quarter .
12 San Diego , California-based SAIC , responsible for porting HP 's Visual User Environment to alternate platforms as SAIC VUE , says it will have version 3.0 out on Sparc and RS/6000 machines by January followed by an Ultrix version later in the first quarter .
13 Andy Payton will be in the starting line-up today for the first time since Boro 's last defeat , at Millwall , five weeks ago .
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