Example sentences of "[subord] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Day 7 ) Camped at site where the first jetstream was spotted in 1956 . |
| 6 | She was the last down to the dining room , where the first course , a cold soup , was already laid . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Plus five , no problem there , start where the first number tells us to start . |
| 12 | As is well known , English is not one of those languages where word stress can be decided simply in relation to the syllables of the word , as can be done in French ( where the last syllable is usually stressed ) , Polish ( where the syllable before the last — the penultimate syllable — is stressed ) or Czech ( where the first syllable is stressed ) . |
| 13 | And this was applicable where the first accommodation was in another country . |
| 14 | Vendors may also , against the advice of their agents , enter into a contract race , where the first purchaser to sign the contract secures the land . |
| 15 | What was decided in regard to the applicant Handscomb was that where the first review date predicated an equivalent determinate sentence well in excess of that which could have been imposed under established sentencing practice , there was impugnable unreasonableness . |
| 16 | The differences in expansivity can be accounted for if the interaction parameter is now expressed as where the first term reflects the interchange energy on forming contacts of unlike type and includes segment size differences , while the second term is the new ‘ structural ’ contribution coming from free volume changes on mixing a dense polymer with an expanded solvent . |
| 17 | She had an idea where the first sniper had been but in any case he could have moved . |
| 18 | Who would have thought today Sarajevo , where the first shot of that war was fired , would be in the news ? |
| 19 | Haas was a very great editor and made important restorations ; but you ca n't always go back to Bruckner 's first ideas — the first version of the Eighth Symphony , for example , where the first movement ends with a fortissimo coda . |
| 20 | Again we can see the effect that loss has upon us , where the first stage is shock and disbelief , and an inability to take in the reality of what is being said . |
| 21 | For where the first stage , the mechanised production in factories of consumer goods for an existing colonial market virtually monopolised by Britain , promised and provided immediate and enormous profit on a relatively modest outlay , the second did not . |
| 22 | A year ago we won a race at Carlisle , nearer to the south than Kelso , where the first prize was £503 and the horse box alone was £500 . |
| 23 | We were lucky to last more than the first fairway together . |
| 24 | ‘ I feel there is a need for experience in all positions and I 'm not blaming James for anything other than the first goal against Chesterfield . |
| 25 | Then he reached the first green of the tournament proper — rather than the first green of the practice rounds . |
| 26 | For species actually to act with a sense of past and future history would be a far more radical departure than the first land creature crawling out of the sea . |
| 27 | The newcomers , mostly fishermen or peasant farmers who came as boat people , have been less successful than the first wave . |
| 28 | It was as if there was a wave of water and the wave turned a wheel and the wheel turned a cog and the cog turned a piston and the piston punched out a wave , bigger and more overwhelming than the first wave , turning a bigger wheel , a bigger cog , a bigger piston and then finally a wave that seemed enough to swallow everything in its path . |
| 29 | We are more used to talking about facts as causes than the first criticism allows . |
| 30 | The feature in question is that the second half of a parallelistic couplet ( line B ) is often more precise or specific than the first half ( line A ) . |