Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [prep] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible Minton also knew that the house was built on the site of former warehouses where some of the first slaves brought to Britain were unloaded and where many died . |
| 2 | In some words , we can observe a type of stress that is weaker than primary stress but stronger than that of the first syllable of ‘ around ’ , for example in the first syllables of the words ‘ photographic ’ , ‘ anthropology ’ . |
| 3 | I think we 'd be er prepared to accept this at , what 's asked for is a feasibility study , no more than that in the first instance and I think we 'd be prepared to accept . |
| 4 | In reply , Boycott and Brearley put on no less than 129 for the first wicket — jolly good in a Test , but they took thirty-eight overs about it , with Boycott not getting into double figures until the seventeenth over . |
| 5 | They were often shorter and plumper than those of the first category , excelling in pirouettes , élévation and batterie , because of their natural gift of ballon . |
| 6 | This improvement was substantial : from slightly worse than myopic on the first attempt , the average improved to getting on for 40% of the difference between the optimal and the myopic on the second . |
| 7 | Technology chairman Derek Lewis expects sales in the hundreds rather than thousands in the first year , but is aiming for between 5% and 10% of the UK Unix market thereafter . |
| 8 | It appears that a reworded criterion : " can represent a given decimal number on a number line to one decimal place " would have yielded a success rate of 75 per cent , about the same as that for the first item . |
| 9 | ‘ John may be mad , but he 'd never buy a horse as hot as that as a first horse for his daughter ! ’ |
| 10 | Where the causes are successive and the second defendant 's breach of duty has caused the same damage as that of the first defendant , the but for test will exonerate the second defendant . |
| 11 | hesitation , a great deal of divided effort as near as life as possible in the first instance . |
| 12 | We 'll need as much exposure as possible in the first couple of years , but it worries me that there 's no independent ‘ father figure ’ capable of speaking for the whole game and making sure it does n't ‘ do a snooker ’ . ‘ |
| 13 | She had thought of him as Roman since the first moment she had known his name . |
| 14 | The novelty of the decision lies in the characterisation of the husband as principal in the first degree acting through the innocent agency of the third party . |
| 15 | While a broad toleration of different opinions characterized Jewish religious thought as such during the first century B.C. the conflicts between political and religious leaders , especially of the Pharisaic persuasion , were murderous . |
| 16 | The company convinced the academics that ‘ equivalent professional experience ’ should be viewed as equal to a first degree . |
| 17 | Ninety four people were arrested some as young as fifteen in the first month … |
| 18 | And remember , you will have a wider role to play in the working of your ship , as one of a first aid party , or a member of a gun crew , for instance . |
| 19 | In 1903 he went to Merton College , Oxford , as one of the first Rhodes scholars and in 1906 he gained a second-class degree in modern history . |
| 20 | Seventeen years later , then Flight Lieutenant Reif , he flew as one of the first navigators in 2 Squadron Canberras when that unit deployed to South Vietnam in April 1967 . |
| 21 | There has long been the counting of people as one of the first activities of states ( as we shall see in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 22 | While the rediscovery of women 's experiences has been seen as one of the first tasks , the problem is not just one of ‘ bringing women back in ’ but involves a struggle to upend traditional theories , concepts and methods so that women 's experiences , their relationships to each other , to children and to men become part of the mainstream . |
| 23 | REAR-ADMIRAL GARTH WATSON , who has died aged 78 , had three distinguished careers : as an Admiralty engineer ; as one of the first officers of the newly formed Naval Electrical Branch ; and as an outstanding secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers . |
| 24 | As one of the first members recalled , ‘ When we reached thirteen most of us felt we were too big for the Sunday School , and there was a gap of a few years until we were able to join the YMCA at seventeen … |
| 25 | When the new Institution for the Deaf and Dumb was opened in Edinburgh in 1810 with John Braidwood , grandson of Thomas Braidwood , as Principal , Walter Geikie was enrolled as one of the first students . |
| 26 | Richard Elliott , the Headmaster , chose Francis as one of the first pupil teachers , and in due course promoted him to the position of junior teacher at the Margate branch of the Asylum . |
| 27 | Now consider what happens when two of the first generation tall peas are crossed . |