Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity . |
2 | In deciding which combinations to take after the first year of study , applicants should be aware of the entry requirements for both subjects . |
3 | Good arrangements and an eye for detail can only be achieved with practice , so it may help to have a few guidelines to follow in the first place , if only to act as a spring board for producing interesting and unusual ideas of your own . |
4 | Two days to go before the first home game of the season . |
5 | In addition , there was a strong tendency for the remaining pauses to occur in the first half of a clause rather than the second half . |
6 | The proposal is for employers ' contributions to begin on the first pound of earnings . |
7 | Not only did many teachers in many schools meet in library committees to discuss for the first time their common interests and sometimes contrasting perspectives with other members of subject departments across the school ; they also , for the first time , were forced to consider seriously the pedagogy implied by their present use or misuse of the resources already on offer or their failure to use them . |
8 | A dash to the train saw Dettori and several colleagues arrive with seconds to spare before the first race . |
9 | The Aussie trio is led by newly-signed Steve Regeling who has moved from Exeter with Dave Cheshire , who spent most of last season recovering from a bad wrist injury , and Mark Lemon whose plans to move into the first division have been put on ice . |
10 | Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye . |
11 | There are nine actresses to see in the first run . |
12 | Sonia Delaunay later expressed this theory in its simplest form : ‘ Pure colours used as planes are juxtaposed in simultaneous contrasts to create for the first time a sense of form , achieved not by clair-obscur , but through the relationship in depth of the colours themselves . ’ |
13 | The teachers demonstrate and explain the progression from basic turns to parallel in the first video and the second covers various types of turn for steeper terrain . |
14 | This is that whilst nuclear plants may be more expensive than other types to construct in the first place , they are potentially very cheap to run . |