Example sentences of "the very first [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1957 , Sir Christopher Hinton , about to become the very first chairman of the CEGB , had predicted that by the 1970s nuclear power would be ‘ appreciably ’ cheaper than coal-fired generation . |
| 2 | The very first cruise around the world in one ship was organized by American Express who chartered the Laconia in 1922 . |
| 3 | As Fig. 4.5 shows , the change of context experienced by group D produced a substantial loss of vigour in the CR , evident from the very first trial of the test . |
| 4 | That 's how I remember the very first day of the war . |
| 5 | As a school involved in the very first year of the project , School A provides an opportunity to observe a school 's involvement in Stage 3 of the project ; that is to say , the development of INSET provision , the further development of library facilities and curriculum innovation , and other by-products of the project . |
| 6 | No sooner back than at the very first race of the 1982 season , at Kyalami , controversy broke out again . |
| 7 | ( 1 ) Why was not amplified vibration generally available to those few people who were likely to benefit ? ( 2 ) Was James Yates really the very first person in the world to think about and use it ? |
| 8 | This came into being when the very first change in the first cell took place , and that change , which was the first biochemical action , ultimately proved to have been , or must be acknowledged to have been , taken to initiate the process which would continue indefinitely to produce a living being with an ever-increasing capacity to enjoy life . |
| 9 | It behaves just like Tit for Tat itself after the first move , but — this is what makes it technically nasty — it does defect on the very first move of the game . |
| 10 | Well , in this view — quite possibly for the very first time in the history of their occupations — publishers and booksellers are wrong . |
| 11 | At the very first meeting in the Tehran Hilton , renamed the Independence , one of the Iranians ( ’ a rug merchant ’ ) complained that the spare parts the Americans had brought were second-hand . |
| 12 | We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction . |
| 13 | The very first view of the house put a dampener on our mood . |
| 14 | And indeed , in the very first chapter of the 1285 statute of Westminster , the chapter ‘ On conditional gifts ’ ( De donis conditionalibus ) , the intention had evidently been to protect the wishes of the original donor of the land with respect to its future possession and use . |
| 15 | Joan and her sister Ruth appeared early in the saga , and young Paul opened the very first book of the series . |
| 16 | The basis of this understanding of marriage is laid down in the very first book of the Bible : ‘ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife , and they become one . ’ |
| 17 | Other notable releases in a so-so week are the debut by The Stray Cats , ‘ Runaway Boys ’ , plus merry jingles from Throbbing Gristle and Devo — and the very first record by The Sisters of Mercy , ‘ The Damage Done ’ . |
| 18 | Other notable releases in a so-so week are the debut by The Stray Cats , ‘ Runaway Boys ’ , plus merry jingles from Throbbing Gristle and Devo — and the very first record by The Sisters of Mercy , ‘ The Damage Done ’ . |
| 19 | However , in the very first debate in the House after the shadow Chancellor 's statement , up pops the hon. Gentleman and , in the first intervention from the Opposition Front Bench , says , ’ Spend more , spend more . ’ |
| 20 | Move the cursor onto the very first letter of the paragraph which is to be joined to the end of the paragraph above it . |
| 21 | ‘ Virtually all the profits earned since the very first flight of the Wright Brothers in 1903 have faded away in the last three years , ’ Pieter Bouw , chairman of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines , told a meeting of airline caterers . |
| 22 | This word spirit appears in the very first verse of the Bible , where it states that the Earth was without form and void . |
| 23 | The very first entry of the part of the Diary 1869–1871 published by Gerald Rhodes mentions the Railway : |
| 24 | From the very first entry at the top of the list it is clear that this discussion was to be for Darwin revelatory . |
| 25 | If the gun misfires on the very first shot of the game then something spectacular and unusual has happened . |
| 26 | In fact , the very first paragraph of the Brazzaville Conference report had expressly ruled out self-determination as a possibility , and during the RPF years de Gaulle had made fairly explicit statements in favour of preserving the empire . |
| 27 | The very first effect of the absence of parental love is that the parent has no gentle sanction whereby the civilising process and the ensuing conscience can be started . |
| 28 | And therefore the very first task of the philosopher is to try to awaken this deeper desire . |