Example sentences of "to the first [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 2 | It may be thought unwise to present a young a artist in repertoire as familiar and well-recorded as this , but one only needs to listen to the first minute of track one , the F major Sonata , to realise that Haefliger is in complete command and has something unique to offer , namely youthful energy , dash and charisma . |
| 3 | Jack shook off his dream about Death Row and remembered that all over Dublin today there would be people waking to the first day of term . |
| 4 | These improvements in mortality are now almost totally confined to the first year of life and the years after age 65 . |
| 5 | Practice varies from faculty to faculty : for example , mostfaculties will accept SCOTVEC modules when these are offered in combination with other school-leaving qualifications ; some will make offers on the basis of Ordinary or Higher National Certificates or Diplomas for entry to the first year of study , while the Faculty of Science and Engineering will in appropriate circumstances consider such qualifications as a basis for entry to the second year . |
| 6 | Welcome to the first issue of NETWORK . |
| 7 | Further to the first point of order , is it an order for the press to hear about the proposed rise in prescription charges before this house and would n't it have not been better if the Secretary of State to come and made a statement and we could have questioned her about it . |
| 8 | The proposal made some changes to the first paragraph of Security Council Resolution 598 , dealing with a ceasefire and the withdrawal of troops , in line with Iraqi demands . |
| 9 | An invoice raised in April 1991 related to the first stage of contract payment on a verbal order given by the customer in March 1991 , ie the first payment was due from the customer on approval of the order . |
| 10 | Revealing the painful side of the very private area of a marriage or close domestic partnership involves breaking social taboos , and sympathetic response to the first hint of difficulty helps the communication ( Wilson and James , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | And then irritation began to give way to the first tricklings of fear . |
| 12 | Though I do not desire to stray into fields where others here are expert , I must point out that according to the first chapter of Genesis the world was so constituted from the beginning that good and evil were created together in it , and also that the knowledge of them existed before mankind . |
| 13 | Thus Thomas Erastus ( 1523–83 ) appealed to the first chapter of Genesis to demonstrate that God had created plants before planets . |
| 14 | Hence , even where force is used in self-defence in response to the first use of violence the employment of a greater degree of force than that used by the attacker , or the continued use of force beyond the point where the attacker is willing or unable to continue the attack would not be seen as legitimate in law . |
| 15 | The Corpach lock keeper suggested a German yacht waiting to ascend Neptune 's Staircase , the eight locks from sea to the first stretch of canal . |