Example sentences of "[coord] 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 | It would n't be the first time that a man has been seduced by female beauty and been left the poorer for his pleasure , nor the first time Lotta has attempted by stealth to deprive me of something which I value . ’ |
| 21 | The closing date is November 22 , and the first survey picked out of the bag after that date will win . |
| 22 | The force was virtually destroyed in its gallant endeavours at Mons and the First Battle of Ypres , with losses amounting to 95,654 by the end of 1914 . |
| 23 | He took part in the retreat from Mons and the first battle of Ypres . |
| 24 | Work began on the construction of the school in December and the first brick has already been laid . |
| 25 | The earliest horseless carriages were regarded as socially dangerous and the first legislation to control them required that each should be accompanied by three persons — a driver , a passenger in case the driver was taken ill , and a third person walking in front carrying a red flag . |
| 26 | The commentators told people used to queuing for a bare minimum that the General-Secretary and the First Deputy Prime Minister had a choice of six different menus . |
| 27 | It was also agreed at the meeting that , as the greater accuracy of the steel bows was enabling more archers to hit the nine inch diameter gold , an inner gold in the form of a three inch diameter black spot would be added , and the first arrow to pierce this would win the silver arrow . |
| 28 | Edward Pyatt 's Guinness Book of Mountains and Mountaineering ( Guinness 1980 ) , gives lists of first ascents — mostly by Coolidge and Almer — and a poor location map , but no bibliography ; and Doug Scott 's classic Big Wall Climbing ( Daye Ward , 1974 ) tells only of the feats of Zsigimondy and Diboma on the traverse of La Meije and the first ascent of the South Face respectively . |
| 29 | WHAT do the following have in common : a machine that can write the Bible on a pinhead ; a single-lens microscope that magnifies 1000 times ; a barometer that measures the difference in atmospheric pressure across the thickness of a book ; a 15-cm ( 6-inch ) telescope that fits into a jacket pocket ; and the first bicycle crossing of the uninhabited central region of Iceland ? |
| 30 | We will call these descriptions noun , and the first type name . |