Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 2 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 3 | The only point I felt w you know we mentioned the other day that if , if there 's a rise say on the first of April then you wan na get in a couple of months before then . |
| 4 | Sitting back on her seat , she relaxed as the engine started and the long , low open canal boat passed under the first of the very low bridges which spanned the narrow waterways , and tuned in her ear to the English commentary being given by the boat 's guide , mentally turning off when it was followed in French and German to engage in a desultory conversation with a fellow countryman who had chanced to take the place beside her , a pleasant young man attending his first seminar in Denmark . |
| 5 | In fact patriarchy , class , and hierarchy all presupposed a law of gender difference which was at once divinely , naturally , and socially laid down , the law descending from the first through the second to the third . |
| 6 | The track continues west along the edge of the escarpment before turning left to the first of many little lakes — Parabaun . |
| 7 | He took her hand and led her to the open-air dance-floor just as the band slipped into the first of their slow numbers . |
| 8 | Both arguments failed with the Court responding to the first by holding that the existing notification procedures were enough , there being no need for mandatory notification in all cases : |
| 9 | The usage embodied in the first of these quotations is now well established in the literature , and the sentiments expressed in the second serve to remind us that the idea of the ultimately contingent nature of what is often taken to be ‘ natural ’ has a long and distinguished pedigree . |
| 10 | However , the contractual commitment stems from the first of those calls on the basis that it is followed up by the time agreed . |
| 11 | The nun 's call coincided with the first of the bombs . |
| 12 | They investigated the rate of autoshaped pecking controlled by the first of two keylights presented serially and were able to show that the rate was elevated when the first element was an inaccurate predictor of its consequences . |
| 13 | Inflation has fallen over the last three months and the cone of possible future inflation is now pointing slightly downwards , the bank reports in the first of its quarterly reviews of inflation produced in response to the Chancellor 's invitation in his speech at the Mansion House last year . |
| 14 | Some astronomers have convincingly argued that a BL Lac object ( a clumsy terminology referring to the first of this class to be discovered ) is simply a quasar with one of its beams pointing straight at us . |
| 15 | In the economics of oligopolistic markets the distinction between ‘ explicit ’ and ‘ tacit ’ collusion turns on the first of these elements . |
| 16 | The other one was that they would be th the direct debit re-present on the first of April would be running one day late erm which , as a consequence , means that the recall re-presents would come back one day late . |
| 17 | The collection totals approximately 150 items comprising an historical survey of first-class material ranging from the first to the nineteenth century AD . |
| 18 | As dialogue continues down on the floor the Inlay Operator prepares for the first of his ‘ big moments ’ ; the establishing shot of the city as seen by the time-travellers . |
| 19 | But there is no late date set into the legislation , only that ratification when it is required means that from the first of the following month then the elections on the new constituency boundaries may take place under the new er European rules so that a decision is of course for an election in June er is in fact needed by the first of May . |