Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] first [noun pl] the " in BNC.

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1 For one of the first things the maltster looked for was just this : uniformity of seed in the samples that the farmer showed to him .
2 One of the first things the children notice about the stone is his odd logic .
3 Naturally , one of the first things the Fields did on arrival at Lartington Hall was to start their own pack of hounds .
4 It says that it is the counsel of the witan determined upon as soon as Cnut and his witan established peace and friendship between Danes and English , and that one of the first things the witan decided was that they would zealously observe Edgar 's law and " investigate further at leisure what was necessary for the nation , as best they could " .
5 Above all , IR spectrometers are almost universally available , and so IR spectroscopy is one of the first techniques the inorganic chemist will call upon when studying a new sample .
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