Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 One could always spell it out : " The final word or words of a clause or sentence repeated as the first word or words of the next clause or sentence " ; and only use anadiplosis if the regularity of the feature required the economy of a label .
2 On 3 March 1987 the originating summons was amended by adding the seventh and eighth plaintiffs , and on 19 March 1987 it was further amended to seek accounts of all transactions entered into , and of all dealings with the property of the plaintiffs by the first defendant , and of all moneys received by or payment made by the first defendant or by the second or third defendants , and an inquiry whether any sums were due from the first defendant to the plaintiffs .
3 Coopers & Lybrand worked on the first study in conjunction with Samuel Montagu , the merchant bank which is handling the sale on behalf of the Government .
4 a letter or figure printed on the first page of each section of a book and used as a guide when collating and binding .
5 Then incubate the embryos at room temperature for 15–30 min in the second layer ( an FITC- or TMRTC-conjugated antibody or IgG directed against the first antibody ) diluted appropriately in M2 .
6 On the western clay plateau at Orwell the number of customary tenants who held yardlands or half-yardlands declined during the first thirty years of the seventeenth century .
7 Although Stars & Stripes led on the first two legs , America 's speed prevailed .
8 Typically in English a paragraph is unified by the fact that it brings together material around a single point or topic indicated in the first sentence .
9 At present these are alkali works or works mentioned in the first schedule of the 1906 Act , as amended by the Health and Safety ( Emissions into the Atmosphere ) Regulations 1983 ( S.1 .
10 the number of characters ; ie letters , figures , signs or spaces in a piece of copy , line or paragraph used as a first stage in type calculations .
11 But by all means take a flask of tea or coffee to drink during the first few hours , but flasked drinks always taste stale after ten or twelve hours .
12 Many of the tales and sketches included in the First and Second Series were extensively revised , and sometimes retitled , from their first periodical appearance .
13 It is thus possible , indeed common , for each of two rival lineages to claim , as the British and Germans did in the First World War , that ‘ God is on our side ’ .
14 When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length .
15 There were heats , and Jefferson ran in the first .
16 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 .
17 THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December .
18 And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married .
19 Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points .
20 Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points .
21 a reference to the first of Sir Walter Scott 's Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft contributed to the first number of Murray 's Family Library ( 1830 ) .
22 After the violent conditions that erm we think occurred in the early life of the earth and injected energy and churned up the atmosphere and formed the prebiotic molecules , we find that just those same molecules are actually in the clouds in space , and these clouds are the basic raw material from which stars and plants form in the first place , so we might ask the question could they have got into the earth 's atmosphere without this intermediate process , and I think there are mechanisms whereby these molecules can accrete into the earth 's atmosphere , and it certainly suggests that we should look at thse and certainly not be taken as a foregone conclusion that the Uray/Miller experiments are the only mechanism whereby the prebiotic soup was formed .
23 History in the making at Barbados : West Indian and South African players and officials meet for the first time in a Test match .
24 It was day three when I started to haemorrhage and Lee cried for the first time since his brief squawk at the moment of birth .
25 The independence of the people 's committees was not ultimately compatible with communist rule in north Korea and problems occurred in the first few months of communist dominance .
26 Year II is spent in industrial training in a computing environment which allows students to apply the skills and knowledge gained in the first year of the course to real day-today situations and problems experienced by organizations using computer-based information systems .
27 In 1963 Miles and Haynes met for the first time , in Edinburgh .
28 In a government document on maternity care , the Maternity Services Advisory Committee rounded up advice on good practice in postnatal care : ‘ The care a mother and baby receive in the first weeks after the birth is as important as the care given antenatally and during childbirth , ’ it says .
29 There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest .
30 Fast Forward 2 for intermediate students , continues the same pattern and approach followed in the first course .
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