Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [art] first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 2 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 3 | We are only just beginning to see the first stirrings of a new debate on industry 's competitiveness . |
| 4 | Mr Orbach said the company was ‘ beginning to hear the first sounds of improved trading conditions from some customers , ’ which could mean growth in 1992 . |
| 5 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 6 | Late roses tumbled over stone walls , Michaelmas daisies and chrysanthemums provided bright patches of colour , and the trees that surrounded the village were beginning to show the first hint of the glowing autumn colours still to come . |
| 7 | Despite onerous hours — he starts work at 4am and leaves the office about midnight having scanned the first editions of the next day 's newspapers — he has faith in his product , although he cheerfully admits that it needs tweaked into shape . |
| 8 | Contrasting the brutal murder of a taxi driver with the subsequent execution of the accused , A Short Film About Killing forms the first part of Kieslowski 's Decalogue cycle — ten separate parables which draw thematically from the Ten Commandments and are linked by a common setting , an anonymous Warsaw housing estate . |