Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] the first [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standish examines the first two difficulties ; the third is not surprising given Neptune 's long orbital period , 165 years ( so that not even one orbit has been completed since it was discovered ) . |
| 2 | Paul Merton has the first post-modern catchphrase . |
| 3 | Robert Stevenson checks the first few metres of each weaving when it is removed from the loom . |
| 4 | Cleaning baths , probe systems , submersible transducers , whistle reactors and tube reactors are described and illustrated by Mason , while Goodwin discusses the first two methods with details of other larger scale equipment . |
| 5 | Pivoting in P2/T2 gives the first two rows of P2/T3 . |
| 6 | It may seem appropriate that since VR marks the first true merging of technology and imagination , it is sometimes hard to tell where current technology ends and its imagined future begins . |