Example sentences of "[v-ing] to the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to the first assumption of left idealism — the interpretation of the ideological nature of working-class crime — here we are presented with much greater difficulties . |
| 2 | Records are filed according to the first letter of the surname and then in the order of the first letter of the Christian name , for example : |
| 3 | Though I do not desire to stray into fields where others here are expert , I must point out that according to the first chapter of Genesis the world was so constituted from the beginning that good and evil were created together in it , and also that the knowledge of them existed before mankind . |
| 4 | More than a tenth of the world 's soils have lost a substantial amount of their natural fertiliser in the past 45 years , according to the first results of a 15-year Global Assessment of Soil Degradation , funded by the UN Environment Programme . |
| 5 | Jack shook off his dream about Death Row and remembered that all over Dublin today there would be people waking to the first day of term . |
| 6 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 7 | The man would , of course , have come fasting to the first Mass of the day . |