Example sentences of "[verb] of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Showing the history of the USAAF/USAF from 1931 to 1953 it shows the early development with B-10 bombers helping out during the flooding of 1935 , film is included of the first B-17s , a type that was delivered in 1937 , the expansion programmes of the late 1930s show the tremendous build up of men and machines . |
| 2 | Ferdinando came to his wife in such an open way that she was reminded of the first advances he had ever made and she was stirred in a way she believed no longer possible . |
| 3 | It is considered of the first importance that young persons should receive correct and permanent impressions on this subject and to assist in securing that object it is intended to exhibit a model of a SLAVE SHIP which was recently captured upon the coast of Africa . |
| 4 | Kingston , assured of the First Division title after beating runners-up Thames Valley 91-69 last Wednesday , trailed London 65-40 at the interval . |
| 5 | He says of the first degree that it happens when no other desire can divert love from God and " all labyr is lyght to a lufar " , signalling a vivid apprehension of the joy at the heart of the work of redemption . |
| 6 | ‘ They have been very supportive , ’ he says of the first major professional stage production of the novels . |
| 7 | It is with great pleasure that I now enclose a copy of the video film made of the first semi-final round . |
| 8 | In The Managerial Grid 111 ( over a million copies were sold of the first two editions alone ) Blake and Mouton accuse Fleishman of ‘ faulty formulation and lack of demonstrated validity . ’ |
| 9 | In the example below , the filter set consisted of the first 30% of the core vocabulary . |
| 10 | The first group consisted of the first 15 consecurive patients and 11 consecutive volunteers who were asked not to swallow any saliva ( they were asked to spit it out ) . |
| 11 | He was fixing to get rid of the first one in the divorce courts . |
| 12 | But we had various versions of M1 , but we did n't ever get rid of the first version , so we could , the one that Suzannah did and then the one that I changed , and then the one that the Committee changed , all exist so that we can back track what we actually did . |
| 13 | The school can boast of the first secondary school girls ' rugby league team . |
| 14 | Beta , often known by its old proper name , was ranked of the first magnitude in ancient times , but is at present slightly below the second . |
| 15 | ‘ When they came in they talked of the first team and it seemed an offer I could n't refuse ; with hindsight , I should never have gone . ’ |
| 16 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |
| 17 | When Anne left them she thought of the first time she had stood on that corner saying goodnight to John . |
| 18 | At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world . |
| 19 | This is playing of the first order . |
| 20 | ( ii ) In redrafting their work they should be encouraged to think of the first draft as tentative so that they are prepared to rethink their whole approach in the light of their own critical appraisal or of their discussions with their peers or teacher . |
| 21 | In The Faerie Queene , Spenser wrote of the first man and woman as ‘ Elfe … and Fay … [ of ] whom all Fayres spring ’ : |
| 22 | I was thinking of the first one which was reproduced in Herbert Read . |
| 23 | With letter I enclose clippings from the Gwelo and Que Que newspapers , telling of the first actions of the Mobile Force . |
| 24 | Does it set back the filter bacteria , denied of the first stage of the nitrogen equation ? |
| 25 | Edwards , switched to scrum-half for the injured Andy Gregory , was the catalyst of a well-disciplined performance by Wigan who now need one point from three matches to be mathematically assured of the first leg of their league and cup double objective . |
| 26 | Impossible to say of the first move , it was her will , and not to extend that to what followed , or reason is gone mad . ’ |
| 27 | Thomas , from Acton , was convicted of the first rape by an Old Bailey jury on January 29 and of the attack on the 17-year-old girl on Thursday . |
| 28 | The last page contains a summary of the information required for the purposes of section 13 , though some consideration is also required of the first page . |
| 29 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |
| 30 | The Blues suspected the Georgians would be carpeted for their haphazard arranging of the first leg tie ; the Windsor Park club had already complained to UEFA about this . |