Example sentences of "[adv] the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1912 Punnett was appointed to the Balfour professorship of biology at Cambridge — effectively the first chair of genetics to be established anywhere — after Bateson had declined it . |
| 2 | Then Lebensraum became available in Venice in the Sixties , when he took on the first floor of the Palazzo Malpiero Trevisani in Campo Santa Maria Formosa . |
| 3 | He drop-kicked the telegram away , went out for a drink and turned up months later on the first day of filming amiable as an old soldier . |
| 4 | Thus it came about that sealed bids were invited , to be opened by the treasurer at 1 pm. the first day of the Sale . |
| 5 | I also tracked down the first lieutenant of the submarine and one of the two soldiers carried on board and they confirmed the killings . |
| 6 | Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand . |
| 7 | They walked down the first flight of stairs in silence . |
| 8 | She ran down the first flight of stairs , and then turned and dragged herself back to the flat . |
| 9 | A mere two hundred miles from Washington had brought them into a different season although it was obviously the first hint of real autumn in New York : around them others were hurrying because they were too thinly dressed or tugging at coats and gloves that were unfamiliar and awkward after half a year at the back of the closet . |
| 10 | This corresponds to a 1 symmetry , and so the first overtone of a b 1 vibration is an a 1 transition . |
| 11 | The Ambassador , Benedetti , was on leave and so the First Secretary of the Embassy was entrusted with seeing Bismarck in order to put the question to him . |
| 12 | So the first tasks of the day are cooking the vegetables and preparing the lunchtime desserts — probably trifle , apple crumbs and bread pudding , because they are all firm favourites . |
| 13 | So the first day of the week was dubbed the Day of Resurrection , the Day of the Lord — and the first Christians gathered for worship on that day . |
| 14 | So the first stage of identifying modern multimedia is to focus on its power to draw together different forms of communication , smoothly integrating them within a digital environment , and providing access to the stored information using computer systems which are fast , friendly and , above all , interactive . |
| 15 | The rate ratio for admission was similar when only the first admission of each child was counted ( 27 vs 42 , rate ratio 0.65 [ 0.41–1.04 ] , p=0.09 ) . |
| 16 | Only the first presentation of a lecture is worthy of credit . |
| 17 | Note that only the first kind of relational information , i.e. that on the speaker-referent axis , imposes intrinsic limitations on the ways in which such information can be encoded — namely in referring expressions , and morphological agreements with them . |
| 18 | for loss of or damage to property belonging to or held in trust by or in the custody or control of the Insured Person ( other that self catering accommodation where only the first £50 of any loss or damage is excluded ) ; |
| 19 | It is always dangerous when the hon. Gentleman reads only the first half of a sentence . |
| 20 | The right hon. Member for Lagan Valley said that he was not clear whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman had finished or was still giving way , and my right hon. Friend referred to what looked like only the first half of his speech . |
| 21 | Only the first part of this work is much read nowadays and that is what is discussed here . |
| 22 | Cyril Humphries , the dealer who supplied Dr Sackler with most of his maiolica , backs up Mrs Sackler 's claim , noting that ‘ Dr Sackler always told me he would like to keep the collection intact … he wanted eventually to collect the entire spectrum of ceramic arts , and the maiolica was only the first part of it . ’ |
| 23 | He would have been wiser to have published only the first part of this book . |
| 24 | Here we give only the first part of Ohmann 's illustration : [ 8 ] the desk and the shelf above it on which rested the ledgers in which McCaslin recorded the slow outward trickle of food and supplies and equipment which returned each fall as cotton made and ginned and sold … |
| 25 | It was wonderful , the shops were excellent , it was only the first day of our holiday and I had spent most of my money . |
| 26 | Greece thus offers not only the first instance of this change but also the essential one for any attempt to isolate the cultural consequences of alphabetic literacy ’ ( ibid. p. 42 ) . |
| 27 | What needs to be stressed at this juncture is the fact that this historical moment , the focus of attention in this book , centred as it is on the literary production of an interwar French communist writer , marks only the first phase of development of French socialist realism , a phase characterised in the international sphere by an objective alliance after 1934 between Western liberalism and Soviet communism designed to counter the threat of fascism , and characterised in the French national context by practical collaboration between the PCF and bourgeois liberal parties . |
| 28 | Lily was on the point of having what might yet prove to be only the first stage of a thoracoplasty . |
| 29 | Once again , constraints on space make it necessary to address only the first stage of development , which occurs between the ages of 0 and about 18 months . |
| 30 | This is a weak test because an invitation to interview is only the first stage of selection . |