Example sentences of "[v-ing] with the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He paused , his blue eyes glinting with the first sign of malice he had shown . |
| 2 | One hundred and twenty one patients with parenchymal cirrhosis presenting with the first variceal bleeding episode between June 1983 and December 1988 were studied . |
| 3 | United States President Bush paid a one-day visit to Prague on Nov. 17 , coinciding with the first anniversary of the start of the " Velvet Revolution " which had overthrown communist rule . |
| 4 | Two trips were organised due to three pregnancies coinciding with the first dates . |
| 5 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 6 | Biotechnology , in the form of plant and animal breeding , also has a long history , beginning with the first agriculturalists c. 10 kyr BP , but developments in genetic engineering in the 1970s and 1980s are opening up possibilities that have no historical parallels and thus there are no base-line data against which it is possible to predict future environmental changes that genetically engineered organisms may promote . |
| 7 | If learning to read is regarded as a continual process of making more and more sense of written language , advancing with every reading experience and beginning with the first insight that print is meaningful , then it will be seen that there can never be anything specific for a child to be ready for … . |
| 8 | ‘ We ca n't throw this system away in five years ’ time , like Pearl is now doing with the first general ledger it installed in the mid-eighties . ’ |
| 9 | Over the years since the granting of the Royal Charter in 1948 , honorary graduates , starting with the first Chancellor , Lord Trent , have included politicians , musicians , men and women of letters , scientists , industrialists , lawyers , sporting personalities , all subsequent Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors and several long-serving senior employees of the University . |
| 10 | Starting with the first military railway in the Crimea up to our globe trotting bakery that served in the Falklands conflict . |
| 11 | Starting with the first , place the following in the chronological order of which they were President of the Cambridge Union : Leon Brittan , Norman Lamont , John Selwyn Gummer , Kenneth Clarke . |
| 12 | Starting with the first position of the word being searched for , the trie is checked in column 1 . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ The new season does not start until October but we will be holding our own practice matches before then , starting with the first event on 17 June at the big pool at Barlaston . |
| 14 | They had a bit of luck against Portsmouth starting with the first goal which spun off Symons but Chrissy Allen and his team mates worked hard and deserved everything they got … |
| 15 | They had a bit of luck against Portsmouth starting with the first goal which spun off Symons but Chrissy Allen and his team mates worked hard and deserved everything they got … |
| 16 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
| 17 | The reader is reminded that all that has been written so far has been dealing with the First and Second Periods into which the development of the Created God has been divided . |
| 18 | Dealing with the first theme that I mentioned , Dickens uses the word ‘ gentleman ’ a lot in the novel — it is like a leitmotif . |
| 19 | The pre-packaged Oral Rehydration Salts distributed by the various heath organisations were not easily available in most rural areas , conflicting with the first criterion for appropriate technology ( listed above ) . |
| 20 | They accompany the eurypterid arthropods ( which may have preyed upon them ) , and we can visualize the rivers and lakes of the time thronging with the first invaders from the sea . |
| 21 | It is clear from the context of such pairs that in every case where the second speaker responds to a proposition of the first speaker with " you know what I mean ! " or " you know ! " , the second speaker is in fact agreeing with the first . |