Example sentences of "[adv] of the first [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But on the basis of evidence available now , it seems reasonable to conclude that class is not of the first importance in structuring our experiences of family life . |
| 2 | Quadrupling the number of academics in 15 years inevitably led to some appointments of people ‘ not of the first rank ’ , as some politely express themselves . |
| 3 | There is a curious facility possessed by some writers , often those not of the first rank , which consists of an ability to create characters who step out of the surroundings in which they occur and enter the popular imagination . |
| 4 | The trial of Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in 1876 for republishing one of Knowlton 's pamphlets gave the birth-control movement wide publicity and created the demand for more information , and led to the setting up of the first organisation to campaign on birth control , the Malthusian League . |
| 5 | Cos you just pull them out of the first brackets of each one . |
| 6 | Lawyers acting for the 31 year-old double terror victim have recently entered into negotiations with Northern Ireland Office lawyers to settle a compensation case arising out of the first attack on him in which he lost a leg and suffered serious damage to an arm . |
| 7 | That 's your share out of the first pizza |
| 8 | Secondly , and arising out of the first function , it will produce a substantial statistical digest of basis data which is designed to serve the needs of future generations of Agrarian historians who investigate the period 1850-1914 . |
| 9 | Because all our production costs all our commissions come out of the first year . |
| 10 | The manager will play Ryan Giggs from the start after leaving him out of the first leg due to a mix-up over UEFA rules governing foreign and assimilated players . |
| 11 | On the other side of Ayrshire , Ally MacLeod discovered how painfully short his Ayr United side are of becoming genuine challengers for promotion out of the First Division . |
| 12 | Liverpool St Helens ' fall continues , a 9–6 defeat at Blackheath leaving them clamped to the bottom of Division Two just a year after they dropped out of the first division . |
| 13 | LUTON responded to tragedy with a battling performance to move out of the First Division 's bottom three . |
| 14 | • REM sleep can ‘ squeeze ’ deep sleep out of the first part of sleep towards the middle of it . |
| 15 | JUNIOR club Banbridge sent CIYMS crashing out of the First Trust Senior Cup yesterday — and now play host to Ballymena in the quarter-finals . |
| 16 | It grew out of the first demonstrations , towards the end of October 1989 , and was composed of women and men who were outraged at the filth and the toxins in the air , water and soil . |
| 17 | Now look at one of the letters you should have left out of the first question . |
| 18 | PP : It was absolutely fatal , of course , to have made a royal gala out of the first night . |
| 19 | In the following example from the organ pedal melody of the Entrée in Messiaen 's Messe de la Pentecôte , only four pitches are used , yet the composer reshapes the rhythms and note-orders so skilfully that there is no feeling of repetitiousness or monotony : In Example 17 , from the slow movement of Bartók 's Fourth String Quartet , we have a wonderfully sweeping melody which seems to grow out of the first bar . |
| 20 | Sealey has been kept out of the first team picture at Villa by Nigel Spink . |
| 21 | Rocastle got a page long interview expressing some puzzlement at Wilko keeping him out of the first team . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't expect miracles from him after being out of the first team for seven weeks . |
| 23 | But Jones said : ‘ He was moping around in training this morning whether it was because he was left out of the first team I 'm not sure . |
| 24 | Lawrence will change his policy next season when players left out of the first team will play in the reserves . |
| 25 | I was hardly out of the first team squad last season but was substitute just once . ’ |
| 26 | The Glasgow Gangs grew out of the First World War , when those too young to fight or know any better began to hang around street corners . |
| 27 | We had fellows who had come straight out of the First World War , afraid of nothing . |
| 28 | We took his four- poster bed down that he wanted taking down that he cherished for some peculiar reason , and then we moved all the other bits of furniture , and as we w were sort of getting most of the furniture out of the first bedroom he said Do n't forget the loft will you ? |
| 29 | ‘ We all have our own ways out of the first forest , ’ Harry said . |
| 30 | Middlesbrough football club is knocked out of the first round of the War Cup by Bradford . |