Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] the first [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wine was decanted against the flame of a candle , and pouring would be stopped as soon as the wine started to get cloudy or showed the first signs of deposit . |
| 2 | The poets and critics had played a considerable part in stimulating and organizing the first manifestations of the Cubists , but the connections between Orphism and contemporary literature were stronger and more direct . |
| 3 | His major contribution was undoubtedly to undertake , jointly with ( Sir ) Thomas Thorpe [ q.v. ] , a series of magnetic surveys of the British Isles ( 1883–92 ) which significantly advanced contemporary interpretation methods ; and to obtain the first measurements of the magnetic susceptibility of rocks ( 1890–8 ) . |
| 4 | At that time — at least to start with — we could pick up some of those who had been the least successful in their school careers , often because they had turned their backs on the opportunities open to them , and provide the first steps towards training and employment . |
| 5 | They emanate from a time about 300,000 years after the Big Bang and show the first signs of fluctuations in the density of matter in space . |
| 6 | We rendezvous every morning near Blackfriars Bridge and get the first jobs over the radio . |
| 7 | For example , in Namibia , UNTAG not only had to ensure that the ceasefire was observed ; it also went on to tackle a programme of repatriation , and oversee the first elections for the new state . |
| 8 | The aim of the exercise is to begin to discover why you relate to written language in the way you do and to trigger the first probings into your own , unique way of understanding yourself and your world . |
| 9 | Paul Crossley has had a unique association with Tippett 's music , commissioning the Third Sonata and giving the first performances of No. 3 and 4 . |
| 10 | It 's significant , too , that while Herbert Tree was laying the foundations of drama training in England , the famous partnership of Stanislavsky and Danchenko in Russia was beginning , and saw the first developments towards the establishment of the Moscow Arts Theatre . |
| 11 | His foremost maxim — of never admitting defeat , of sticking to your guns through thick and thin — came to his aid and offered the first shreds of comfort since the unpleasantness of the night before . |
| 12 | The parliamentary session closed on 29th July , without any further progress being made , but on 4th August , Hall and Hunt met Cornewall Lewis and Trevelyan to obtain the Government 's approval for a competition , and to seek the first steps towards acquiring the land . |
| 13 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 14 | Ronald Magill , who later became known to millions of television viewers as Amos Brearly in Emmerdale , was then an actor at the Nottingham Playhouse , as well as its associate director , and spoke the first words in the new theatre . |
| 15 | Outside facilitators worked with the committee to look at current staff development issues in the University and to take the first steps in producing a new strategy paper on Staff Development Policy for the University . |
| 16 | A trust has now been able to acquire it and take the first steps towards long-term restoration . |
| 17 | Much the easiest way to assemble a larger labour force was to buy slaves , and the Dutch were ready to help with this , giving the fairly long credit that anyone who wanted to become a planter would need in order to finance his purchases of slaves and of machinery to crush the cane and take the first steps in refining it . |
| 18 | He stiffened his legs , put the fiddle under his chin , and sounded the first notes of ‘ The Manchester Martyrs ’ , a song in praise of three Fenians who had been captured in England and hanged over fifty years before . |
| 19 | Taking our places under the lights and feeling the first twinges of nervousness , we watched the cameras moving into position . |