Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The album is preceded by the single ‘ Rain ’ , with a demonic American preacher , a Gambian thunderstorm and the bells of Oxford 's Merton college all segued in the first 20 seconds . |
| 2 | This is a concept relatively new to English company law having been introduced by section 9 of the European Communities Act 1972 to comply with the First Company Law Directive . |
| 3 | The advocate depute also stressed that the jury required to consider the case against each appellant separately , and that on any view there was sufficient evidence to entitle the jury to hold charge 3 proved against the first appellant . |
| 4 | In comparison with the other two passages , this one has a rather low frequency of nouns ( 4 ) ; moreover , over half of these nouns are abstract ( 20 ) , referring to entities which exist on a social or psychological plane : effort , subject , terms , money , feelings and aristocracy all occur in the first sentence . |
| 5 | Slough , Berkshire-based Ambitron Ltd showed for the first time in the UK the low cost desktop virtual reality system — CrystalEyes VR — and three-dimensional video system from Stereographics Corp of San Rafael , at the Virtual Reality ‘ 93 Conference in London earlier this month . |
| 6 | This section concentrates on the second and third of these phases ; Section 5.2 looks at the first phase . |