Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masur does incidentally , even in this live performance , observe the exposition repeat in the first movement . |
| 2 | When the delegates from Western literature meet on the first day to pray for their existence , there is an attempted disruption of the ceremony by Muslim fundamentalists who claim to object to the Christian format of the proceedings , but , as we later discover , their real target is the elusive Gibreel Farishta whom they are trying to punish for his heretical views . |
| 3 | Gedge 's parents say the band live for the first time at Manchester 's salubrious Ritz Club . |
| 4 | Torrance , who has played in the last six Ryder Cup matches and badly wants to figure in the next at the Belfry in September , shot his 69 despite having a nose bleed for the first time in his life early in the morning , then again on the course . |
| 5 | The origins of this popular movement lie in the first wave of pressure for disarmament , which began with the emergence of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) in 1958 and ended in 1964 , with its decline in the face of the new Labour Government 's failure to rid itself of nuclear weapons . |
| 6 | As a significant number of people with a normal resting ejection fraction die within the first year following infarction , it has been suggested that a fall in ejection fraction on exercise may identify this group . |
| 7 | Half the irritability and lack of moral control which spoil adult life originate in the first year of existence . |
| 8 | Why did the Third World borrow in the first place ? |
| 9 | The overall median hospital stay from the first stage of percutaneous cholecystolithotomy was three days ( range one to 33 ) . |
| 10 | The median hospital stay from the first stage in patients with acute complications was 12 days ( range three to 33 ) . |
| 11 | The child prices shown alongside the adult prices in the price panel apply to the first child sharing a room or an apartment with 2 full fare paying passengers . |
| 12 | The medieval fabliaux in English belong in the first instance to the context of medieval England , and are not to be seen as foreign intruders disguised in the clothing of the Middle English language . |
| 13 | ‘ When I come out of a house having heard a victim laugh for the first time since it all happened — I know that 's why I do it , ’ she says . |