Example sentences of "[adv] the first [noun] [prep] " 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 | Increase the time on the outbound leg by half the difference between the time taken on the first turn from the entry heading ( 145° above ) and from the hold axis . |
| 5 | Thus it came about that sealed bids were invited , to be opened by the treasurer at 1 pm. the first day of the Sale . |
| 6 | I walked down the first fairway in a relaxed and peaceful mood , despite my early departure from my bed . |
| 7 | Then take one step backwards again ( to the ‘ a ’ node ) and down the next route forwards ( to the ‘ c ’ node ) , and so on down the first route from each node , until the end of the graph is again reached ( i.e. the complete candidate string ljaclc ) . |
| 8 | Lisa dived in hungrily , spreading butter and honey on a croissant , and reflecting as she washed down the first bite with coffee that it was even more delicious than it looked . |
| 9 | I also tracked down the first lieutenant of the submarine and one of the two soldiers carried on board and they confirmed the killings . |
| 10 | Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand . |
| 11 | They walked down the first flight of stairs in silence . |
| 12 | She ran down the first flight of stairs , and then turned and dragged herself back to the flat . |
| 13 | Perhaps the first question to be answered is why do so many sedimentologists concentrate on sedimentary petrography ? |
| 14 | So perhaps the first thing about that continuum is that none of them are right or wrong we all dis-represent the ways of behaving and it 's very much a personal choice which one will use at one stage . |
| 15 | Perhaps the first step towards achieving this balance of ability is to be able to use both left and right sides with equal effectiveness . |
| 16 | Whilst such an interpretation of three-dimensional spaces may create a slightly confused image when all three laminas are visible , it is perhaps the first step towards full modelling . |
| 17 | The concentration of neurons in ganglia is perhaps the first step towards building a brain , but even the appearance of a large head ganglion does not ensure that brains of the sort that humans and other mammals possess are the only design solution that can result . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps the first key to this puzzle will be there . ’ |
| 19 | Laura had felt , for perhaps the first time since her husband 's reappearance in her life , the warmth of a shared companionship . |
| 20 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 21 | For perhaps the first time in her life there was no feeling of restlessness deep in her soul , no desire to be somewhere else . |
| 22 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 23 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This corresponds to a 1 symmetry , and so the first overtone of a b 1 vibration is an a 1 transition . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So the first man in the smithy in the morning had to pick up a hammer and strike the anvil three times — just to let the old man know we were on the job . |
| 29 | Now and that 's for my benefit alone okay , what that means is that I 'll see each and every one of you in a , a role play so the first person in each role play will be Robert , Barry and Gareth , followed by Gill , , followed by Bill , Roger and Vincent and Robert again you do not deviate from that order . |
| 30 | 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 . |