Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] of first " in BNC.
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1 | Under the Net and Lord of the Flies are too philosophical to be called angry , Golding ( in any case ) was always seen to be a spirit apart , and a few of these authors were strikingly young at their moment of first success . |
2 | McCaw last week agreed to pay $1.9bn for Metromedia 's half of the licence , but that deal in turn hinged on whether LIN took up its right of first refusal on Metromedia 's stake . |
3 | - Housing allocation policies have no place for men once a family has broken up , so hostels for the homeless become their place of first and last resort . |
4 | In the Brandeston forge the smith kept a four and a half gallon barrel of beer under the bench , and the men got their allowances of First Nail from this . |
5 | In which book of first entry would you enter the following business documents : |
6 | It is at first sight difficult to account for the anomalous position of Birmingham , which has a rather high productivity score , but whose proportion of first papers in the core journal set is low . |
7 | On March 22 Saddam Hussein promoted Taha Yasin Ramadhan , from his post of First Deputy Prime Minister to Vice-President . |
8 | The baby 's due in August , but the DJ with the most popular radio show in Britain already looks quite at home in his role of first time father-to-be . |
9 | An alternative is a data-driven approach in which we base our investigation of first impressions on people 's experience , observations and accounts and then develop informal theories on the basis . |
10 | It is a terrible warning to us about what could happen if we threw away our system of first past the post elections . |