Example sentences of "[coord] [pos pn] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 Although it hardly featured in the Report , the nature of lending in Sri Lanka , and its consequences in the first part of the twentieth century had burnt itself into the collective consciousness of many and clearly influenced the Commission .
2 The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland .
3 Having formed the first phrase and its complement as the first sentence of our theme , we must turn to the problem of what to do in the second sentence .
4 FREED prisoner Karl Maxwell-Smith flew home to Britain from Thailand yesterday — and met his granddaughter and her mum for the first time .
5 This study extends the work of a pilot study funded by ESRC ( C/00/23/2220 ) which examined the interaction between dear parents and their infants in the first 12 months of life .
6 These students had opted to take the stylistics course as part of the Language " track " of their degree ; all were well motivated and their work in the first and second years had revealed that all had demonstrable ability for language study .
7 When Dulé and his companions regained the beach , they were so stunned and wearied by the water and the flames , the howling and frantic clangour of their rout , that they dragged themselves and their boat to the first cover they could find , and lay face down against the earth ; they could sense it trembling as if it were an animal alive beneath them .
8 A triumph of the 1991 Avignon Festival the company , Ches Panses Vertes from Picardy , create vivid with sombre imagery of the battlefield with a structure of sand and barbed wire … a mystical garden in which two men re-enact with tiny wire figures some of the experiences of Cendrars and his experiences of Cendrars and his companions during the first year of the 1914–18 war .
9 The Führer , too , had demonstratively donned field-grey at the start of the war , to emphasize his unity with his troops and his image as the first soldier of the Reich , whereas the unpopular Party hacks were often seen as shirkers , avoiding their duty at the Front .
10 God introduces us to our true selves , so that we come to recognize ourselves , and our God for the first time .
11 It was partly because he was tired and unhappy , leaving home and our mother for the first time … ’
12 But their presence in the First Division will mean that every Saturday thirty non-English players will be turning out in the top flight taking up places which should be filled by Englishmen .
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