Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | This new concern , among social thinkers of different persuasions , with the opportunities for peaceful change no doubt results in part from a revulsion against the extreme violence characterizing the first half of the twentieth century , and against the authoritarian political regimes which some kinds of violence have brought into existence , as well as from a deep-seated and pervasive apprehension of the ultimate consequences of violence in the age of nuclear weapons . |
2 | Following the religious ceremony , Monsignor Olavio Lpez Duque blessed a memorial plaque symbolising the first stone of the central processing facilities ( CPF ) . |
3 | The leading positions in the four divisions of the Bootle Snooker League after six weeks of the new season see Liverpool Billiards and Snooker Club leading the first division with 24 points from Corals ( 22 ) and Corals B team ( Bootle ) on 18 from four completed matches . |
4 | Garston Snooker League are now approaching the half way stage with Woolton Village Club leading the first division with 23 points from eight games closely followed by Mossley Hill Legion ( 22 ) . |
5 | The decision of the BBC to change the format , in effect dropping the first half of the old programme , is not surprising . |
6 | Fourteen healthy adult subjects then collected urine specimens before and within an hour after their normal breakfast , to assess the fall in urine acid output accompanying the first meal of the day . |
7 | The second part of this procedure ( 8.2 Archiving ) will be carried out between 08.00 and 08.30 on the morning following the first part of the procedure . |
8 | He was busy in the bottom of the second punt , and when he climbed out of it he cut the rope securing the first punt with his sword , and then used his foot to launch it out across the water . |
9 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |
10 | Then Tony Price had visiting goalkeeper making the first save of the game . |
11 | Shortly after the breakfast party , perhaps the same evening , perhaps the next morning , the bridegroom 's mother would make her way to the home of the bride carrying the first load of treasure . |
12 | Dainty booklet recapping the first tour by a West Indies team to embrace first matches . |