Example sentences of "in the first [noun sg] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | This master of tranquility uses only four adjacent notes in the first half of his melody . |
| 2 | Eubank was impressed by Benn 's new maturity in his 11th-round stoppage of Welshman Nicky Piper in the first defence of his WBC super-middleweight title at the Alexandra Palace . |
| 3 | After long talks with WBC president Jose Sulaiman , Maloney is confident that approval will be given for Lewis to fight the Hammersmith-born Jamaican Alex Stewart in the first defence of his title . |
| 4 | NEW world heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe is likely to refuse to fight top contender Lennox Lewis in the first defence of his title . |
| 5 | In the first decade of his reign Selim had attempted to appease the Serbs by granting them a degree of self-government . |
| 6 | It takes either great pretentiousness or great brilliance ( or an outrageous combination of the two ) for a young poet to proclaim himself as Orpheus in the first poem of his first book . |
| 7 | In the first part of his argument , Plekhanov allows that the psychological characteristics of individual actors can influence the course of historical events . |
| 8 | Cabezón wrote such versos or versillos and it has been suggested that he was stimulated by the example of Arnolt Schlick ( see p.184 ) who also composed what one might call suites of versets , notably those on ‘ Da pacem Domine ’ in the first part of his Tabulaturen ( 1512 ) , without the choral alternation . |
| 9 | An Act of Parliament passed in the first year of his reign recited that great numbers of persons : |
| 10 | First , an individual may well have no taxable income in the first year of his self-employment and a bunching of income on ceasing self-employment . |
| 11 | However , relatively speaking , Reagan and his staff , in the first year of his presidency , were brilliantly successful in maintaining control over the budgetary process and were able to ensure that the budget that eventually emerged was reasonably close to their original blueprint . ’ |
| 12 | Wisden records that ‘ on five of the eight occasions on which Gatting changed the bowling , the man brought on took a wicket in the first over of his spell ’ . |
| 13 | In the first autumn of his premiership he not merely took a leap in the dark but decided upon an expedition into the profound obscurity of political outer space . |
| 14 | Greek historian ( c .200–120 BC ) of the rise of Rome , referred to by Gibbon in the first chapter of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . |
| 15 | In the first chapter of his study , Delinquent Boys , Cohen provides a very clear definition of the term delinquent subculture , with the main portion of the book then showing how this subculture is vital to the occurrence of delinquency . |
| 16 | John , whose Gospel scheme does not include , except by implication , the story of what the church , equipped with the Holy Spirit , achieved , and therefore could not make room for Pentecost ( as Luke does at the outset of his second volume ) , nevertheless makes the same point with considerable clarity In the first chapter of his Gospel he stresses that the Spirit rests exclusively upon Jesus , the fulfilment of the messianic hopes of the Old Testament for the bearer of the Spirit . |
| 17 | In the first chapter of his autobiography , we have an interesting record of this struggle , which he wrote down in English words but in Greek characters , in order that his thoughts erm should n't be accessible to his family . |
| 18 | Heisenberg did not immediately appreciate this last point and in the first draft of his paper it was not considered . |
| 19 | It comprises nearly 150 oil paintings , collages , gouaches and sculptures from all periods of Picasso 's career and is a rich illustration of the opinion advanced by John Richardson in the first volume of his biography of the artist that still-life was a subject which Picasso ‘ would eventually explore more exhaustively and develop more imaginatively than any other artist in history ’ . |
| 20 | This has been thoroughly assessed by Bruce Cumings in the first volume of his study of the antecedents of the Korean War . |
| 21 | It led Churchill , twelve years later , when Baldwin had just died , to publish , in the first volume of his Second World War , one of the most polemical and therefore famous of all footnote references . |
| 22 | Our chief source of information on Roman architecture for the first century B.C. is Marcus Vitruvius Pollio who wrote his famous work De Architectura , which he dedicated to Augustus , in 25 B.C. Vitruvius , as we call him , sets out his plans for an ideal Roman city in the first volume of his work . |
| 23 | So the fact that it was Mark Walters , one of his Liverpool players signed in the first stage of his rebuilding programme , who gave Souness this victory on Dalglish 's return to Anfield was particularly poignant . |
| 24 | In the first stage of his expectations Pip is a young imaginative orphan with no expectations but to become Joe 's apprentice in the forge . |
| 25 | Wordsworth did not comment much on these matters in the first edition of his Guide but they are clearly set out in the second edition ( 1820 ) . |
| 26 | Captain Budworth , in the first edition of his A Fortnight 's Ramble , was the means of bringing Mary ( Sally of Buttermere ) into notice . |
| 27 | For example , Luke has only one story outside of Galilee in the first section of his Gospel ( the healing of Legion ( Luke 8:26–39 ) , whereas Matthew and Mark record a more extensive ministry in Gentile country ( Matt. |
| 28 | In the first example of his tenacity , he pointed out that there could be no guarantee that the government 's privatization plans would go ahead in their then current form and they might not happen at all . |