Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] with the first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Scepticism arose with the first television interviews .
2 The Japanese committee 's work ensured that at launch there were 17 different discs available , including a multilingual dictionary bundled with the first players sold .
3 Its onset coincides with the first appearance of Zea pollen .
4 They found that the main response occurs with the first hour .
5 All this has resulted in our profit for the Division being significantly higher in the second half compared with the first half of the year .
6 The objective fossil record starts with the first Ediacaran assemblages ( 560–600 million years ( Myr ) ago ) , but some evidence suggests that metazoans were already in existence as early as 800–1000Myr ago .
7 Moreover , the contract compared with the first operation some three years ago was most significant .
8 The lexicon supplied with the first ANLT contained 6,800 morphemes and suffered from omissions .
9 Surely , however , the court dealt with the first stage wrongly .
10 The Southampton striker was expected to reject the chance to stay with the First Division strugglers .
11 ‘ It 's the start of a thing that 's sweet , ’ he told Tom one evening drawing on a long pipe filled with the first pluckings of their own tobacco .
12 Mackworth ( 1950 ) , within his classical studies of vigilance , showed that without knowledge of results the proportion of detected signals decreased in succeeding half-hours compared with the first half-hour , but for subjects given knowledge of results there was no deterioration compared with the first half-hour through the full two hours of the study .
13 The Kumbukan river rises with the first rains and breaks down the sand bar between itself and the sea .
14 Significantly their arrival coincided with the first wave of summer visitors in more southerly parts of Britain , including wheatears reported as far north as Staffordshire .
15 In order to deal with the first question , we need to begin with considering in what circumstances a modus of any kind , public or private , might be enforced .
16 The motorcycle started with the first kick .
17 The smoothness with which the financial system dealt with the first oil shock surprised most people and suggested that the new floating exchange rate regime might cope better with large shocks of this type than the adjustable peg system would have .
18 They accompany the eurypterid arthropods ( which may have preyed upon them ) , and we can visualize the rivers and lakes of the time thronging with the first invaders from the sea .
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