Example sentences of "[vb pp] to the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This estimate of classical unemployment , when added to the first estimate of natural unemployment , will determine the magnitude of the Keynesian component of observed unemployment . |
| 2 | These improvements in mortality are now almost totally confined to the first year of life and the years after age 65 . |
| 3 | Although it is scattered throughout the idealised version , in the original version it is confined to the first half of the story . |
| 4 | A BOTTLE of sherry and flowers were presented to the first resident of a new nursing home which opened this week . |
| 5 | It was said to have two sets of strings only , at 8' pitch , and , on the evidence of its appearance , it was to be dated to the first quarter of the 18th century . |
| 6 | It has been compared to the first ascent of Everest . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | collective title given to the first section of the final collected edition of Sketches by Boz , the edition published in monthly parts 1837–9 and in volume form in May 1839 . |
| 9 | Once you remortgage , tax relief will be limited to the first £30,000 of your loan . |
| 10 | ‘ It is riveting stuff , especially to be treated to the first performance of a production that has attracted such rave reviews . |
| 11 | The label ‘ Angry Young Men ’ , a term originally used to describe John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger , was extended to the first novels of Kingsley Amis , John Wain , and Colin Wilson . |