Example sentences of "[verb] [art] first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It met the first two of the quarter-final matches head on as they tackled the shortish par-four 12th which , for a few minutes , became a monster and odd routes were used to reach the green . |
| 2 | This construct therefore lacked the first three hypersensitive sites ( HS1 , HS2 and HS3 ) but contained all the downstream HS sites . |
| 3 | Erm , it 's important to remember that this is , in financial terms , a four year transition period , and you have n't yet completed the first twelve months . |
| 4 | We have completed the first four parts in one day with groups of experienced trainees , though this makes for a very hard and long day . |
| 5 | Right as far as I 'm concerned we 've completed the first four points on the agenda right . |
| 6 | HAVING completed the first two legs of their Caribbean tour , the South Africans , who arrived here yesterday on what is the least volatile island on their itinerary , feel the political success of their visit is already guaranteed . |
| 7 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 8 | This morning I telephoned my agent from the kiosk on the corner of the road to make sure that he had received the first fourteen or fifteen thousand words of my novel and , hopefully , to hear him say that , yes , he thought a publisher would give me a worthwhile advance ( much needed ) on the strength or promise of this sizeable chunk . |
| 9 | This week he records the first two programmes for his 21st series of TV 's Record Breakers . |
| 10 | Or you may find that when you first start on your weight control programme you lose the first 3–5 lb ( 1.4–2.3 kg ) fairly rapidly . |
| 11 | Cheshire , champions in 1990 and ‘ 91 , had halved the morning foursomes and shared the first four singles when Caldy 's Bailey claimed a 4 and 3 win over Neil Graham of Newcastle United . |
| 12 | On a day that much expensive talent short-changed a dull derby scarred by offside , Strachan made the first two for Leeds and earned an ‘ assist ’ for the third . |
| 13 | We are using the first two forms ( No 1581 and No 1650 ) despite this , but the third form ( No 1655 ) is completely unusable and we are having to reorder . |
| 14 | Tests are also available to help teachers monitor the progress of students using the first three Streamline coursebooks : Departures , Connections and Destinations . |
| 15 | We treat it by the method of Equation ( 2.6.4 ) , using the first three rows , to obtain with x4 =1 , unc so that we find at once |
| 16 | We do this , notionally , in any matrix multiplication : if we are performing the operation BC = A then we isolate a row of B and a column of C — respectively ( 1 × n ) and ( n × 1 ) submatrices — to produce an element — i.e. a ( 1 × 1 ) submatrix of A. Similarly , we could , for example , isolate the first three rows of B and the first four columns of C and multiply these submatrices , of order ( 3 × n ) and ( n × 4 ) , to give a ( 3 × 4 ) submatrix in the top left corner of A. Again , since unc it makes no different if we divide the range , s , of summation into subranges ; each subrange can be summed , and these sums added to give the total . |
| 17 | While the book charted his passage through Chicago , New York and finally Los Angeles , it largely skips the first two circles of hell . |
| 18 | Accepting the first dozen roses , Mr Milburn commented : ‘ Small businessmen like Frank 's have been hard hit by the recession and the poll tax . |
| 19 | HAND PUPPETS made to look like mature Californian condors are being used by biologists at the San Diego wild animal park to nurse the first two Californian condor chicks born in captivity through the early weeks of life . |
| 20 | She read the first two pages and felt a blush rise from her palpitating bosom up her neck to suffuse her face . |
| 21 | It was problematic for those institutions committed to ‘ concurrent ’ teacher education , where a Diploma might mean devoting the first two years to ‘ academic study ’ without related professional work and school experience . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm now 36th in the European merit order , but I feel I can make the first 25 ’ , said big hitter Clarke before teeing off in Switzerland . |
| 23 | First of all , take a pat on the back for successfully completing the first four weeks of the diet . |
| 24 | Yet the appeal of crusading was , if anything , even stronger to those aristocratic houses just below the level of the princely : it was , after all , the house of Boulogne which produced the first two rulers of Jerusalem . |
| 25 | Between April 1953 and March 1954 they produced the first five issues , meeting in Layton 's home , occasionally at Rosengarten 's , to discuss The Things That Matter — their latest poetry and material offered by others , not infrequently being led in song by Leonard on his ever-present guitar . |
| 26 | ‘ We got the first two ! |
| 27 | Les Ferdinand got the first 2 . |
| 28 | Some DM2.15 billion ( US$1.36 billion ) has been set aside by the research ministry , the BMFT , to support the first three years of the plan . |
| 29 | The oligonucleotide ML1 represents the first 48 nt of the coding strand of the 5' U3 region of HIV-1 with three nt altered ( underlined ) in order to introduce two restriction digestion sites such that the oligonucleotide contains an Hae III , an Ava II and an EcoRV site as indicated |
| 30 | A 100-strong team of scientists has been picked to work at the company 's laboratories at Caswell , Towcester , producing the first 3 inch diameter GaAs wafers in the UK . |