Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [pron] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deputy judge had before him a probate action in which the first defendant , Mr. Clive Smith , sought to obtain probate of a manuscript document bearing the date 18 April 1986 , and said to be a testamentary disposition made by the deceased , Mr. Percy Winterbone . |
| 2 | There is always a first sentence in which the first phrase demands continuity , the second then providing repose . |
| 3 | Of course a chronological narrative can be constructed , but the history of physics in fact has its own temporality in which the first event after Aristotle was Newton , the second was Einstein , the third black holes , etc . |
| 4 | One case was previously published and the second was in a patient in whom the first polyp was discovered and biopsied in December 1986 . |
| 5 | A good example is provided by his comment on the way in which the first editor of the journal Nature allowed his personal opinions to intrude upon its pages : ‘ [ Norman ] Lockyer sometimes forgets that he is only the editor and not the author of Nature . ’ |
| 6 | This is a limited virial expansion in which the first term is the classical va n't Hoff expression for the osmotic pressure at infinite dilution . |