Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The decision of the BBC to change the format , in effect dropping the first half of the old programme , is not surprising . |
2 | Babies are conceived for a variety of reasons apart from basic urges — some over a wayward partner who shows signs of straying from the fold ; in competition with a sister who has recently conceived or in determination to produce the first grandchild . |
3 | The aim of the course was to get group members to think about disability issues in order to take a first step forward in working together . |
4 | So early oxygen levels would have been periodically depressed , in order to allow the first photosynthesizers to carry on evolving . |
5 | The trip to Milan was made in order to write the first opera , Lucio Silla , for the 1772–1773 carnival season there . |
6 | Mozart 's father and sister travelled to Munich early in 1781 in order to hear the first performance of the opera on 29 January . |
7 | A knot is required in order to make the first fastening . |
8 | In order to achieve the first objective the drafter will seek to define his/her client 's obligations , restrict the circumstances in which the client will be in breach of contract , and restrict , limit or even exclude liabilities which would otherwise otherwise . |
9 | In order to obtain a first idea of how space–time behaves across the horizon , consider an instrumented space probe falling along a radial path into a black hole . |
10 | There are no simple right or wrong answers to our questions , but in order to meet the first objective ( to teach problem definition skills ) , we must adopt a particular stance or ‘ model of practice ’ which enables precise analysis of situations . |
11 | When the first draft of this review had been completed , a protein plaque or two moved in the reviewer 's senile brain and he remembered that he had in fact reviewed the first edition for this journal . |
12 | We arrived just in time to see the first members of the brass band — a trombone and a tuba — come round the corner of the lane . |