Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ranald , do you find a rock the size of these two , and we 'll use them as a base for the first skep . |
| 2 | And , as subscribers with decades ' worth of Punch purchasing behind them testify on pages 56–59 , the effect was a bit like the first plunge into an icy pool : shocking at first , but pleasantly bracing once you got used to it . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , in 1918 , following the retirement of the Rev W B Sleight as President , the Rev F W Gilby M.A. agreed to occupy this position as a stop-gap until the election of a successor at the first Congress after the end of the First World War . |
| 4 | Renault showed they had a winner for the first time at the 1979 French Grand Prix when Jean-Pierre Jabouille ( Fra ) was first , with team-mate Rene Arnoux third . |
| 5 | He must submit a budget during the first week in February , which should further clarify his revenue needs and sources . |
| 6 | But good budgeting means having a budget in the first place , having a surplus beyond merest subsistence with which to plan , bulk buy , meet the emergencies which crop up constantly . |
| 7 | But a reduction in the First World is also essential . |
| 8 | ‘ You are a part of the first forest . |
| 9 | the sound of whose surname and its positioning at the start of the final stanza aurally and visually rhymes with ‘ Declines ’ which similarly ends a sentence as the first word of stanza six . |
| 10 | The majority are fitted in quite neatly , but the addition of a sentence after the first quotation on page 34 makes the referent of " Another possibility " , which opens the next sentence , ambiguous . |
| 11 | When removing a drain for the first time , the suture must be removed , and the safety pin replaced about 1″ down the tube if it is to be shortened . |
| 12 | Nine cases achieved a response within the first week ( five prednisone , four PEN ) , eight cases by the second week ( six prednisone , two PEN ) , five by the third week ( two prednisone , three PEN ) , and five by the fourth week ( two prednisone , three PEN ) . |
| 13 | There was a military precision about the grounds and gardens — this avenue , once lined with Dutch Elm lies to the north of the house … where a statue of the first duke overlooks his home — to the south , there was once what was called the military parterre garden — a formal gardens made up of box hedges and gravel walks — now long gone . |
| 14 | He was now a lieutenant in the First Foot Guards , but had been seconded to the Prince 's staff because his father was an old friend of the Baron Rebecque . |
| 15 | In accordance with a letter of intent signed on Feb. 28 , 1989 , the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on March 29 approved a purchase in the first credit tranche ( i.e. for immediate disbursement ) equivalent in total to 342,880,000 special drawing rights ( SDR1=$1.29496 as at March 28 , 1989 ) , or 25 per cent of Venezuela 's total Fund quota , in support of its economic reform programme [ see p. 36459 ] . |
| 16 | Firemen were called to an unoccupied house in Patterson Avenue , Middlesbrough , yesterday when a mattress on the first floor caught fire . |
| 17 | United States trade figures for the second quarter of 1971 showed a deficit for the first time . |
| 18 | FR GROUP , the aviation and defence equipment group where Michael Cobham is the chairman , is lifting its payment to shareholders from 6.37p to 6.69p , with a 4.35p final on July 3 , after overcoming a dip in the first half to increase its profits from £21.3m to £21.4m pre-tax in 1991 . |
| 19 | Apparently Lothar received a majority on the first ballot , but not the two-thirds majority made necessary by the constitution " Licet de vitanda " of the Third Lateran Council of 1179 . |
| 20 | It was held by the Lord Ordinary ( Lord Wheatley ) and a majority of the First Division that the corporation was not liable to purchase tax on stationery manufactured by it and supplied to its public service departments but was liable to the tax on stationery supplied to its trading departments . |
| 21 | One of the best known illustrations of inversion is the model on a Euclidean plane , such as this page , that the French mathematician Henri Poincaré made of the non Euclidean ‘ hyperbolic ’ plane , A Euclidean plane is one that obeys Euclid 's famous fifth postulate : in other words , given a line , and a point not on that line , only one other line in the plane ( a parallel to the first line ) can pass through the point and not meet the given line . |
| 22 | Lowering her gaze from the intense sunlight reflected on the upper walls to the leaded doors , she placed a foot on the first stone step . |
| 23 | And as for Barbara Hervey — she was a bore of the first water . |
| 24 | Captain Ally McKay grabbed a try in the first half and in the second half a brace of tries from his wing forward partner Watson secured the winning margin . |
| 25 | He has been established as a prose-character in the first scene at Achilles ' tent ( Troilus and Cressida , II.i. ) , where even Agamemnon addressed him in prose , by the law of adaptation to the lower centre of gravity . |
| 26 | At the bottom of page one , there was a story about the first American lost in the war : Lieutenant-Commander Michael Scott Speicher . |
| 27 | He has been signed up for War Game , based on a story from the First World War , which will be published before the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 28 | its a big week for both Swindon and Oxford why … well a look at the first division table shows all |
| 29 | Could be that let's have a look at the first year , the first year , I just want to survive . |
| 30 | A MAJOR step in the development of the game in the ranks of the Services took place at St Helens on Sunday , when , in a curtain-raiser to the first match of the New Zealand tour , an RAF team defeated an Army XIII by 22-14 . |