Example sentences of "[verb] the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
2 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
3 | There can be little doubt that these are Naxian works , deeply influenced by the East Greek style and transmitting the first impression of that style to Athens where soon , as everywhere , its influence was to become pervasive . |
4 | Delaunay used to meet Picasso at the gatherings at the Douanier Rousseau 's , while Metzinger was a frequent visitor to Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir during the early years of Cubism , and was an important agent in transmitting the first discoveries of Picasso and Braque . |
5 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
6 | Typical of these was Will Zens ' To the Shores of Hell ( 1965 ) , which depicted the first landings of American Marines at Da Nang . |
7 | Heavily loaded brushes precisely placed always leave behind smooth , compacted paint , so here I maintained the ‘ breathable ’ quality by allowing the first layer of blue to dry , before applying another slightly different hue in the same way |
8 | Rob has recently completed the first leg of the Round the World Yacht Race . |
9 | The Pioneers will by now have completed the first leg of their journey to Cyprus . |
10 | Having successfully completed the first year of the new Teachers ' Training Course the students have gone away to grapple with their holiday assignments . |
11 | Woodbury , New York-based Cablevision Systems Corp says it has completed the first stage of its electronic superhighway to homes , businesses and institutions in the New York metropolitan area : the $300m project , scheduled for completion in 1995 , involves installation of over 3,000 miles of fibre network . |
12 | These provide a means for lexicographers to review and amend dictionary material which has completed the first stage of processing , as well as a facility for the transfer of portions of the dictionary material to a typesetting and composition operator . |
13 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
14 | , personnel secretary at Ipswich , has successfully completed the first stage of a three year course in personnel management at the Suffolk College . |
15 | We finally arrived in Calgary on the afternoon of the second day , thus inaugurating the first flight of the western Canada air mail service . |
16 | Push the first length of pipe into the ground or fit a pipe shoe and bracket |
17 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |
18 | On 2 November , two Chambers of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation passed the first reading of a draft law on export and import of works of art . |
19 | The waves seemed to increase in size as we passed the first section of headland , continuing to smash with awesome power to our right , too close to our right ! |
20 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |
21 | Thérèse no longer shared the first job of the day with her cousin . |
22 | Opposition parties boycotted the first day of the budget session of the Lok Sabha on Feb. 21 , and two state governors were replaced earlier in the month , in connection with the decision to impose president 's rule in Tamil Nadu in late January [ see p. 37964 ] . |
23 | And for my taste it fulfils the first law of festivals — it 's fun . |
24 | Parrott , the UK snooker champ , scored a tremendous 6-5 victory over the world champion and world No 1 to claim the first title of the season and pick up a £25,000 cheque . |
25 | Ben made the first on-sight of Psycho ( ) and followed it up with on-sights of Genesis ( ) , Rainbow Wall ( ) , Your mother , Monument and Anarchiste ( all ) with Mark sharing the honours on Monument . |
26 | On Fuar Tholl , Wilson and Niall freed the superb Tholl Gate in good condition at V. On Sgurr a'Chaorachian 's north-west buttresses , the chossy summer line Jupiter , a fine but rarely frozen 1200ft I/V , was climbed by Brian Davison and I. We also climbed Eastern Promise , a very steep but co-operative V on the eastern Ramparts of Coire Mhic Fhearchair and made the first ascent of the West-Central Wall by an even steeper line based on Mistral ( VI ) . |
27 | The exceptionally strong team , which included Mick Fowler — with whom Saunders made the first ascent of the ravishing Golden Pillar of Spantik — Caradog Jones and Steve Sustad , had hoped for an ascent of the mountain 's South East Spur — a 9,000 foot mega-Walker Spur . |
28 | Simon Patiño also made the first purchases of French eighteenth-century furniture and Old Master paintings by the French School areas in which successive generations , including Jaime Ortiz-Patiño , his grandson , would collect as well . |
29 | A Frenchman , E.A. Martel , made the first descent of Gaping Gill nearly a hundred years ago in 23 minutes using caving ladders ; the petrol-driven winch drops visitors in less than 90 seconds ! |
30 | In 1555 Primož Trubar made the first translation of the New Testament into Slovene and in 1584 a Slovene grammar was produced . |