Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roman troops as such scarcely appear after the first decade of the fifth century in any source , except the Notitia Dignitatum , which appears to be an idealized list drawn up in the 420s , and not a statement of the reality of the imperial fighting forces . |
| 2 | While we pause after the first phase of our acceptance are we to rely on exams for all to prove ourselves worthy of the kindly eye of the state ? |
| 3 | Greenough and colleagues showed that preterm babies who did not require respiratory support had a high prevalence of wheeze and cough in the first year of life . |
| 4 | Some galleries project from the first floor of the house ; others are on barn buildings above the yard . |
| 5 | And you map to the first letter of your last name , say . |
| 6 | Welcome to the first issue of NETWORK . |
| 7 | Welcome to the first day of Henley Royal Regatta on the banks of the Thames . |
| 8 | Welcome to the first edition of Practical Shareware for 1993 , produced in association with Transend Services . |
| 9 | Welcome to the first edition of the new look newsletter |
| 10 | Welcome to the first edition of Olympus Scientific Products News . |
| 11 | So welcome to the first edition of CCG People , which we hope will tell you all you need to know about the people that make CCG such a success . |
| 12 | Some die at the first hint of frost ; others , for example the damp-living larvae of chironomid midges , can be subjected repeatedly to temperatures of -20°C and below , with up to 90% of their body water frozen , and recover completely on thawing ( Scholander et al , 1953 ) . |
| 13 | Production and shipment has already begun , and the contracts extend through the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 14 | We begin with the first type of study . |
| 15 | Begin with the first page of the transcript and count the first 50 utterances which fulfil the following conditions : |
| 16 | Boro were also out of luck when Danish international goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel denied substitute Wille Falconer with a brilliant save in the first period of extra time . |
| 17 | The origins of this popular movement lie in the first wave of pressure for disarmament , which began with the emergence of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) in 1958 and ended in 1964 , with its decline in the face of the new Labour Government 's failure to rid itself of nuclear weapons . |
| 18 | Even today there are those who have doubts about the great burst of prosperity and splendour in the first half of the fourth century manifest in the great villas . |
| 19 | Despite these promises there was no significant improvement in Peru 's human rights record in the first year of the new government . |
| 20 | If you look at the first page of the appendix B , er the outer route was was called was the blue route so if you look down |
| 21 | IT was claps , crackles and pop at the first night of a new comedy venue in Darlington . |
| 22 | In the same counties , with the addition of Cornwall and Rutland , the median for eighty-five esquires was about £60 compared with £80 from 124 feodary surveys ; several men were worth upwards of £200 and clearly correspond with the first group of gentlemen in the table . |
| 23 | And we hear for the first time of permanent salaried architects . |
| 24 | In the second release , set for the first quarter of 1994 , comprehensive internetwork management capabilities will be added , enabling the network management system to discover , display and maintain the physical and logical topology of all major network devices automatically . |
| 25 | A spokesman at IBM Corp 's East European headquarters in Vienna claimed that the company exceeded the internal sales targets set for the first quarter of 1993 , and succeeded in increasing its turnover in the region by around 30% when compared with the same period last year . |
| 26 | About one third of all cases recover after the first episode of alopecia areata , and never get another bald patch . |
| 27 | Walk right away until you get to the first window of Moe 's Tavern , collect the spray can and paint the cinema billboard ( stand to the right of the three aliens to do this ) . |
| 28 | Only the terror of being caught by the creature — I could all too clearly imagine myself being hurled from the roof — drove me to climb over into space and feel for the first rung of the ladder . |
| 29 | However , the reformulation appeals to theoretical notions which the authors discuss in the first chapter of the book , and it is unlikely that what was said about mutual cognitive environments in the first chapter is accessible for use for the interpretation of a passage about style in the final chapter . |
| 30 | Half the irritability and lack of moral control which spoil adult life originate in the first year of existence . |