Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 2 | So the remainder of the first consultation was spent showing Clive how to breathe from his diaphragm rather than from the upper part of his chest . |
| 3 | There was no question about the direction of the first goal … that hit the back of the Wolves net at about seventy miles an hour … |
| 4 | It shows two men wearing gloves walking from the direction of the first explosion . |
| 5 | He brushes her lips with his , then jerks his head in the direction of the first floor . |
| 6 | All those year-end supplements on Revolution in Eastern Europe barely nodded in the direction of the first Revolution of 1989 . |
| 7 | The Regional Council has just completed the provision of the first phase of access and servicing to the site , and is able to offer up to 4 development plots for sale or lease . |
| 8 | The EC wishes to extend the concept of mutual recognition beyond the coverage of the First Directive . |
| 9 | The award of the first State scholarship , providing access to a university , was celebrated with a day 's holiday for the whole school in the 1930s . |
| 10 | On July 8 , G-7 leaders met with Russian President Yeltsin and formally endorsed the disbursement of the first tranche of an aid package worth US$24,000 million , first approved in April [ see p. 38888 ] . |
| 11 | The route has also changed , for the first walks were from Bradford to York , the winner of the first race taking 7 hours , 7 minutes and 50 seconds to cover the thirty-nine and a half miles . |
| 12 | The winner of the first prize was Richard Rudgley for The Alchemy of Culture Intoxicants in Society , to be published in 1993 . |
| 13 | Matters are quite different in the case of the first wording ‘ I ask that you be content with that thing ’ . |
| 14 | In the case of the first question the response is ‘ a new book ’ . |
| 15 | In the case of the first question the verb is thematicized ; in the second it is rhematic and is substituted for by a categorical verb , i.e. to do . |
| 16 | Lord Hope said in the case of the first witness that his additional evidence would not have led the jury to reject the evidence of Thomas Leighton , who had corroborated the boy 's account of the attack . |
| 17 | In the case of the first participant , Pegasus , this bundle will comprise Pegasus Unifacts , Word Perfect and Lotus 1-2-3 . |
| 18 | Workers were brought in from all of the Eglinton properties to repair the damage of the first day and to improve the condition of the lists . |
| 19 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 20 | However , even though there was a misdirection in this respect , their Lordships agreed with the advocate depute that that misdirection was plainly to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 21 | Speelman with the white pieces has often been accused of having a rather wimpish opening repertoire , and on this occasion he gained nothing from the advantage of the first move . |
| 22 | In Robert Musil 's great novel , The Man Without Qualities , cynical officials in shabby , multi-cultural Austria-Hungary on the brink of the first world war plan lavish jubilee celebrations for the old emperor Franz Josef . |
| 23 | While it would be possible to restrict the use of some of these functions to particular staff , all are within the comprehension of the first time user . |
| 24 | It seems certain that they first found their way from the Creole of the first generation Caribbean migrants into the LE of the second generation , where they occur very frequently . |
| 25 | I 'm not tying you to a specific month , but about January nineteen eighty five you would give the figures for the printing of the first brochure |
| 26 | The livret confirms that stringed instruments were used in this ballet : the description of the first entrée mentions that the bride and groom are led on stage by ‘ violons ’ , the term that was used generically to indicate all members of the violin family . |
| 27 | ( i ) The official receiver ( or someone nominated in writing by him ) is the chairman of the first meeting . |
| 28 | APPEAL ( No. 10 of 1992 ) with leave of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong , and with special leave , by the applicant , George Tan Soon Gin , from the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong ( Yang C.J. , Silke V.-P. and Bewley J. ) given on 29 November 1991 , whereby they held that they had no jurisdiction to hear the applicant 's appeal from the judgment of Barnett J. delivered on 13 May 1991 in the High Court [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 400 refusing the applicant 's application for judicial review of the decision of the first respondent , Judge Cameron , in the district court dated 4 December 1990 , refusing to stay the criminal proceedings by the second respondent , the Attorney-General of Hong Kong , against the applicant in the district court relating to West L.B. ( Asia ) Ltd. and Barclays ( Asia ) Ltd . |
| 29 | Rather than treat the indenting of the first line of a paragraph as simply some cosmetic device , as Longacre ( 1979 ) does , we might look upon it as an indication by a writer of what he intends us to treat as the beginning of a new part of his text . |
| 30 | I threw our bags up on to the deck of the first barge , about ten feet above me . |