Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wordsworth writes as if he is a new kind of human being , like Adam naming the creatures for the first time . |
| 2 | The simplest reason for the disappointing subscription is that the novelty of a kitchen maid poet had dissipated in the four years since the first subscription , especially among the gentry around Brackley who might now observe Philip Leapor enjoying the fruits of the first volume . |
| 3 | There are two main ways of singing the songs after the first verse . |
| 4 | By the time I reached the road the medics were bringing the casualties to the First Aid post . |
| 5 | Acceptance came when their eldest daughter , Claire , then aged five , expressed her delight at seeing the twins for the first time and said simply : ‘ Oh look Mammy , they 're stuck together . ’ |
| 6 | It was a dark house , Mary Rose thought , climbing the stairs to the first floor . |
| 7 | She instructed Nina to radio for the county ambulance before climbing the stairs to the first floor of the jig and following the foreman along the boards for about twenty yards until they were able to see the injured man . |
| 8 | The Dutchman Jos Lansink , the only rider left with a chance of meeting the conditions for the first Everest Challenge ( which had required him to jump double clear rounds in four specified contests ) , would have collected a Jaguar car if he had won the Grand Prix . |
| 9 | The 20 foot roof above our heads provided perfect shelter for all eventualities , so we decided to share our last scraps of food in another bivouac after fixing the ropes on the first two pitches above the terrace . |
| 10 | Alternatively , if you can afford it , you can continue paying the premiums on the first policy as well as taking out your second joint endowment . |
| 11 | He noted that his rats tended to adopt a strategy for sampling the stimuli in the first stage of ( simultaneous ) training in which they consistently looked into one arm of his T-maze , withdrawing and turning to the other arm only if confronted with the negative stimulus . |
| 12 | The video theme of ‘ higher , further and faster ’ begins with an esoteric Hitchcockian opening sequence ( the producer is one Stanley Hitchcock ; any relation ? ) , and gives the viewer a quick gallop through early piston-engined airliner designs with Richard Todd 's mellifluous tones as voice-over , before describing the problems with the first passenger jet , the Comet , which was grounded after four crashes ( later traced to fuselage metal fatigue ) . |
| 13 | Alan Shearer wore the number ten shirt with high hopes of scoring the goals in the first international since the retirement of Gary Lineker . |
| 14 | Once the whole company have learned the words they are divided into two groups with one side of the room singing and doing the actions to the first verse and the other doing the same for the second . |
| 15 | And then world-class backs Martin Offiah , captain Dean Bell and Martin Offiah will surely end the Cumbrians ' run of nine victories and destroy their hopes of reaching the semi-finals for the first time in the club 's history . |
| 16 | Not frightened about not knowing the answers but frightened about not hearing the questions in the first place . ’ |
| 17 | Clearly these solutions can easily be generalised by modifying the coefficients of the first terms of ( 10.77 ) . |
| 18 | The company has just released the Interim Report showing the results for the first half of the current financial year . |
| 19 | Since the tendered bills were issued by NVOCC 's , and the NVOCC 's had issued the bills while placing the goods on the first means of conveyance and not on the ocean going vessel , banks either rejected such bills or required additional statements or notations attesting to actual loading on the ocean going vessel . |
| 20 | Knit two rows N/N , two rows CX/CX ( see Sample 2a ) throughout , making the buttonholes after the first row of the centre two rows N/N on the band . |
| 21 | The banks might have been imprudent in making the loans in the first place , but they are both clever and scrupulous when it comes to protecting the value of their assets . |
| 22 | It was suggested in discussing the results from the first study that subjects may have been deliberately attempting to recall just the risky situations . |
| 23 | I had just one weekend of the melting snow and slush on the fells — very wet indeed — during testing , with no possibility of drying the boots after the first day . |
| 24 | Three seminars were recently held for general SVQ co-ordinators from schools , colleges , and other centres offering the awards for the first time in August 1993 . |
| 25 | Crossing the corners on the first pitch of Sirius ( Hard Severe ) , Lizard Point , Cornwall ( photo : Don Sargeant ) . |