Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the first chapter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the question , to sharpen up the one we posed in the first chapter , is not : ‘ How can I stop myself getting ‘ like that ’ ? ’ , as if ‘ like that ’ were a chronic condition into which one slowly but permanently sank . |
| 2 | As we mentioned in the first chapter of this book , egalitarian marriage is now widely promoted as an ideal , but recent research indicates that there is a wide gulf between what is said to be happening in terms of sharing in marriage and what actually happens . |
| 3 | At the beginning Dickens piles up adjectives in order to set the scene and build atmosphere as is shown when he writes in the first chapter |
| 4 | It may be argued that this is essentially the approach that I used in the first chapter . |
| 5 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
| 6 | A typical theoretical framework is that proposed in the first chapter of Bell ( 1991 ) , discussing the methodological requirements of translation . |
| 7 | The sophistication and range of this style of cooking grew , as Sheila describes in the first chapter of her book . |
| 8 | It has , not surprisingly , been at the forefront of critical enterprises which have considered literature 's different relations with history that we explored in the first chapter . |
| 9 | A distinction was made in the first chapter between three types of risk , objective , estimated and subjective , and the assumption was made that subjective risk is closely related to the concept of arousal as it has been used in much memory research . |
| 10 | Though I do not desire to stray into fields where others here are expert , I must point out that according to the first chapter of Genesis the world was so constituted from the beginning that good and evil were created together in it , and also that the knowledge of them existed before mankind . |
| 11 | Thus Thomas Erastus ( 1523–83 ) appealed to the first chapter of Genesis to demonstrate that God had created plants before planets . |
| 12 | As we stated in the first chapter of this book , the developmental task of marriage is to convert the unconscious choice of partner into a conscious commitment . |
| 13 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 14 | Of course , that leaves us with the problem raised in the first chapter — the extent to which such old people feel they are no longer able to engage in transactions which benefit others as well as themselves . |
| 15 | The kind of balance we had to achieve is well summarised in the first chapter of the Kingman Report : |
| 16 | As was explained in the first chapter , it would be very difficult to construct a complete unified theory of everything in the universe all at one go . |
| 17 | The Purefoy Letters contain a number of lists of trees and smaller plants which Philip Leapor brought to their estate ( an example is provided in the first chapter above ) . |
| 18 | However , the reformulation appeals to theoretical notions which the authors discuss in the first chapter of the book , and it is unlikely that what was said about mutual cognitive environments in the first chapter is accessible for use for the interpretation of a passage about style in the final chapter . |
| 19 | The example of Barth which we examined in the first chapter is one form of reaction . |
| 20 | As we saw in the first chapter , an adult with this sort of emotional history finds it very hard to deal with separation of any sort . |
| 21 | We saw in the first chapter how we can understand more about ourselves according to our type of personality . |
| 22 | As illustrated in the first chapter , formal community care services are provided by a variety of different agencies . |
| 23 | As indicated in the first chapter , there has evolved during relatively recent times a " traditional " listing of Muftis , the tradition beginning essentially with Mustakimzade and reaching perhaps definitive expression in the widely-used the equally widely-used chronological history by Danismend , and , more recently , Altunsu 's In respect at least of the origins of the institution this tradition has triumphed over another of some antiquity , advanced by Katib Celebi and followed by Hezarfen and the western authors d'Ohsson and Hammer , which names Hizir Bey ( d. 863/1459 ) , the first kadi of Istanbul , as the first Seyhulislam and which differs in several other respects from the now-accepted account of the succession of fifteenth-century Muftis . |
| 24 | Just by glancing at the first chapter of the book you feel a sort of ‘ zing ’ that brings them together , so much so that one could never rate one higher than the other . |
| 25 | To conclude this chapter , I would like to return to the picture , discussed in the first chapter , of the organism as a dissipative structure , maintained by the flow of energy through it . |
| 26 | For the purpose of statistical analysis I shall use the three geographical divisions discussed in the first chapter . |
| 27 | Again we discussed in the first chapter a little of why such questions get asked at this stage . |
| 28 | This is one way of describing the situation ; we prefer however to distinguish between the Justice Model outlined in the previous section and a different movement which shares only part of the Justice Model agenda : the ideology of ‘ law and order ’ we discussed in the first chapter . |
| 29 | The economic and social problems of the second Labour government have already been outlined in the first chapter . |
| 30 | In fact , the defences and addictive attitudes described in the first chapter only illustrate the false ways in which we deal with ourselves . |