Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any higher level processing must begin with orthography , hence this study forms the first part of a contextual system . |
| 2 | This chapter uses the first measure to give an outline indication of how big a part credit , overall , plays in consumer spending , and how that has changed over time . |
| 3 | I have made few attempts in this chapter to give the first references to ideas or discoveries . |
| 4 | This conference provides the first opportunity in West Belfast itself for the unemployed , community groups , local business people , policy makers , managers and administrators of employment and training schemes , funders , careers teachers , trade unionists and others to discuss present and future employment prospects of people living in West Belfast . |
| 5 | ‘ We have trained the nurse caring for this infant to recognize the first signs of desire for food . |
| 6 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |
| 7 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 8 | Out of this time came the first stories of his boldness — answering back to a teacher , taking out girls , and of course the all-dazzling displays at rugby and cricket . |