Example sentences of "of [verb] [art] first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maginn spent the rest of his life as a dedicated missioner in Belfast , where in 1888 he had the pleasure of becoming the first superintendent of the Mission Hall for the Adult Deaf and Dumb which was opened that year by Miss Wilhelmina Frederick . |
| 2 | This is a very useful way of gaining a first impression of a program and other teachers or school librarians may be present who have used the software in class and have evaluated its use . |
| 3 | At the time of writing the first cycle of review and reporting by Oxfordshire 's schools is now virtually complete and a second cycle is planned . |
| 4 | The President had also apparently abandoned his aim of holding the first round of legislative elections on Oct. 25 [ see p. 39086 ] , and agreed to reschedule them for late November ( with a number of opposition parties still calling for a further postponement ) . |
| 5 | The other system is known as record-playback and involves the skilled craft operator going through the physical motions of machining the first piece of the batch with the machine in record mode . |
| 6 | Hardy had to pay £75 towards the cost of printing a first edition of 500 copies . |
| 7 | The most fundamental events in people 's lives are strongly affected by their social class , ranging from their chances of surviving the first year of life through likely age of marriage and number of children to the kind of diseases they are most likely to die of ( Reid 1977 ) . |
| 8 | Even the teenage mothers ' infants had good chances of surviving the first year of life , if their fathers were 25–29 years old . |
| 9 | On a trumped-up charge of assassinating the first President of Zanzibar , Abeid Karume , Babu was held in detention from 1971 to 1978 . |
| 10 | It was encouraging to learn from your answers to last year 's questionnaire that most of liked the first edition of ‘ The Birmingham Magazine ’ . |