Example sentences of "[conj] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't discover the first snail or the first nettle that sprouted up on this planet . |
| 2 | Or the first twist or turn . |
| 3 | Now continue turning the transport wheel until you have the figure 1 ( or the first row of any subsequent pattern ) showing in the little cut-out square at the left of the bottom slot on the console . |
| 4 | The long-promised higher frequency Vikings that would go a ways to proving Sparc 's scalability are supposed to be producible by the end of the fourth quarter or the first part of the new year , according to TI . |
| 5 | Oddly for years , it remained permissible to use an iron or steel stemmer providing it was not upon the " … wadding or the first part of the tamping or stemming on the powder … |
| 6 | The day of finding the vaginal plug may be designated day 0 , day ½ , day I , or the first day of pregnancy in different laboratories . |
| 7 | For instance , two-note groups being constantly played with a heavy first note and a curtained second one , or the first note under each slur produced with an accent . |
| 8 | Just retrieve the file in the normal way and Quattro Pro will automatically identify the file type by its extension ( or the first record in the file ) and translate it . |
| 9 | Spring back up without stiffening and sing ‘ gah ’ or ‘ lah ’ or the first line of a chosen poem or song . |
| 10 | Example 103 , from No. 7 of Karg-Elert 's Interludes in Various Keys for organ , shows a mixture of diatonic and chromatic substitution notes typical of this composer : The student will be able to analyse this for himself , but he should beware of treating the second chord in the penultimate bar , or the first chord in the last bar , as triads in their own right . |
| 11 | If the inn is later sold to another person who wishes to reopen as licensed premises or the first purchaser wishes to open the inn once more as licensed premises , the Gnat 's Water Brewery will seek to rely upon the covenant to restrain such trading . |
| 12 | The dependence of the world upon God is not initial but constant ; built into the structures of reality is an inherent dependence which requires us to posit something else — the designer or the first cause . |
| 13 | The Gulamalis never received the agreement form , the tenants ' deposit or the first month 's rent . |
| 14 | Ms Radice got to the crux of the matter when she told The Washington Post , ‘ To me , when the obvious sexual nature … is the only thing you see or the first thing you see or the overwhelming thing that you experience the American public has given us a lot of guidance on this , and Congress has given us a lot of guidance , saying they do n't want us to spend money on that particular type of art ’ . |
| 15 | During the last week of July or the first week of August every year , the Provincial Exhibition was held in Regina — a gala display of all manner of farm products , poultry and livestock , coupled with an ‘ extravaganza ’ by way of a grandstand show and horse-racing . |
| 16 | Until things collapsed , I had planned to hold a conference in either the last week in January or the first week in February because , as a result of discussions with the Shopping Hours Reform Council , SOS , the Union of Shop , Distributive and Allied Workers , the Keep Sunday Special campaign , the consumers and other groups , I am confident — |
| 17 | It went into your jotter , your jotter was handed in on the Monday morning , or the first time you went to the eng the English class and the teacher was his name , he went over that and if you 'd missed out a comma , you see or a full stop or anything like that . |
| 18 | You could win a Runner-Up Prize of £100.00 or £10.00 — £50.00 or £5.00 — £20.00 or one of the 10 Fifth Prizes each of £500.00 or the 5 Fourth Prizes of £1,000.00 or the £5,000.00 Third Prize , the £10,000.00 Second Prize or the First Prize of £30,000.00 or even £60,000.00 if it is returned promptly . |
| 19 | It could have been a wood-cutter 's cottage in an old fairy tale , Sara thought , or the first house built by a settler in the Wild West . |
| 20 | This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place . |
| 21 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 22 | The price factors are calculated for the first day of the delivery month , and adjustments have to be made for accrued interest where the first day of the delivery month does not coincide with a coupon payment date . |
| 23 | Like tonight , Parents ' Evening , when they had assembled at his behest in the Staff Common Room overlooking the school driveway to watch out for arriving parents and usher them through to the headmaster 's sitting-room , where the first part of the festivities were to take place . |
| 24 | Day 7 ) Camped at site where the first jetstream was spotted in 1956 . |
| 25 | She was the last down to the dining room , where the first course , a cold soup , was already laid . |
| 26 | Particularly in the business of softer drugs , where the taxes can be lower and the restrictions less onerous , and where the first trial steps towards legalisation should take place , it would undermine the ‘ risk premium ’ that provides drug cartels with their profits . |
| 27 | A similar case of Fermi resonance occurs in , where the first overtone of the C=S stretch at 1033 cm -1 interacts with the N=C stretch near 2070 cm -1 to give two IR bands of comparable intensity ( Fig. 5.35 ) . |
| 28 | The first is the score for the bigram transition [ i , j ] ; the second is the index in the trigram matrix where the first trigram transition beginning with [ i , j ] is to be found . |
| 29 | Jamaica , where the first railway of 1845 was the first in the British colonial empire , was provided with a diverse group of wonderfully eccentric stations . |
| 30 | Plus five , no problem there , start where the first number tells us to start . |