Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New elements include Visual WorkBench , and AppWizard , which automates the first steps of using an application framework , which Microsoft says makes it easier to get started developing an application . |
| 2 | Whilst thinking furiously about the play of the rest of the hand , you try the queen of hearts from dummy , which wins the first trick . |
| 3 | The pattern of pitch which accompanies the first clause or group of words will be recognised by an English listener as in some way complete and it will hold it together as a separate unit and separate it from the following clause , which will also be held together by intonation . |
| 4 | Few mystical treatises get off to a more intriguing start than The Fire of Love , which describes the first time Rolle became aware of a heat in his breast which , he insists , was not imaginary or metaphorical but which could be felt as a finger felt the heat of the flames in which it had been thrust . |
| 5 | The second part is a quantitative study which complements the first part . |
| 6 | Similarly a chorus of cavaliers , referring to ‘ corni e tamburi , e trombe ’ , has instrumental parts which could be for actual trumpets and drums but are more probably for strings imitating them , since in Act II when Chiron is supposed to play his lyre the music consists of a sinfonia di viole , and the passata dell'armata which ends the First Act of Didone ( 1641 ) and another chiamata alla caccia in the Third are equally ambiguous . |
| 7 | The tunes were in a slow waltz time but played with that characteristic thump which accentuates the first beat of the bar so strongly as to obliterate everything else , reducing any melodic line to a tribal dance . |
| 8 | This suggests an element of indecision in United States policy which provides the first point of investigation for this project . |
| 9 | The tellers look first at who receives the first preference on each ballot paper and put into each candidate 's box every ballot paper on which he is number one . |
| 10 | She describes the first meeting at Liverpool Street : |
| 11 | She smiles as she meets the first customers of the day . |
| 12 | The Tour has begun , and by evening we 'll know who wears the first maillot jaune . |
| 13 | Someone who can not predict what will happen after he or she takes the first drink . |
| 14 | Here she takes the first round , |
| 15 | the problem is with how the is conducted who gets the first bite ? |
| 16 | It 's the sort of thing it is easy to observe if you stand around in the garage during practice or generally stick around a team , watching who gets the first briefing , who is paying more attention to whom . |
| 17 | He has a senior wife who lays the first egg in the scrape he makes in the ground for her . |
| 18 | But Jodi , a Rhodes scholar , will get her chance later this month , when she becomes the first woman to turn out for the men in the annual varsity match against Cambridge . |
| 19 | There are many different people who contribute to the efficient running of a clinic , including nurses , technicians , social workers , contact-tracers , doctors , and , the person who makes the first contact with a patient , the receptionist , whose contribution to the well-running of the department is of particular importance . |
| 20 | One expects the first week of January to produce a ragbag of leftovers from the Christmas numbers . |
| 21 | It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again . |
| 22 | NEWTOWNABBEY mayor Alderman Arthur Kell will send a rocket into orbit this Saturday when he lights the first firework at the Valley Leisure Centre 's annual display . |
| 23 | It represents the first extinction of a British mammal since the wolf was hunted out in the mid-18th century . |
| 24 | And for my taste it fulfils the first law of festivals — it 's fun . |
| 25 | Together with Caedwalla 's grant of land in Battersea in Surrey , also to the monastery of Barking ( CS 87 : S 1246 ) , it constitutes the first sign of an extension of western Saxon influence north of the Thames and an indication of potential development . |
| 26 | As already stated , he receives the first referrals . |
| 27 | It covers the first item that I can think of to be prohibited from schools ... |
| 28 | It has the first research information and library service to be registered to ISO9001 . |
| 29 | Poet Software Corp reckons it has the first object database for NT ( CI No 2,176 ) , but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT , also claiming it to ‘ the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system ’ . |
| 30 | Poet reckons it has the first object database for NT , but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT , also claiming it to ‘ the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system ’ . |