Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 2 | The A178 Tees Road closes for the first of three successive Sundays tomorrow , between Greatham Creek and the B1277 Brenda Road . |
| 3 | Diane stopped by the first of the mounds , not too close , and waited for Aldridge to catch up . |
| 4 | As Jeffrey Richards showed in the first of three talks on Sexuality in the Middle Ages ( Radio 3 , Monday ) , you can always get past a lack of obvious data to find out the sort of thing that goes on in bedrooms . |
| 5 | Anyone who has not seen Karajan 's Berliners in full cry — the CD videos will rectify this omission in the fullness of time — can at least catch something of the wonder of the spectacle in the piece Neville Cardus wrote about the first of the 1961 Beethoven concerts in London . |
| 6 | At about the same time , Jamal Hamadan put in the first of the 60 telephone calls he would make from Paris to Fawaz Younis in Beirut before the trap was sprung . |
| 7 | In his manner of thought and sympathies , Anselm belonged to the first of these two periods , both with regard to the organization of the Church and the supremacy of the monastic foundations which had maintained the spiritual life of Europe for three or four hundred years . |
| 8 | David Oldfield headed Leicester ahead in the 10th minute and two minutes later David Lowe volleyed in the first of his two goals . |