Example sentences of "[verb] the first [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Typical of these was Will Zens ' To the Shores of Hell ( 1965 ) , which depicted the first landings of American Marines at Da Nang . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They were quick to spot the first ripples of concern which have surged into a tide over the past year . |
| 7 | At a time when Western Europe was enjoying the first benefits of industrial society , trade with the west was actually stultifying social progress and the development of industry in Poland and Prussia , and particularly in backward Pomerania . |
| 8 | ‘ Because it would be good for some of us to see the first moments of your great fame . ’ |
| 9 | A stampede broke out , people pushing past Jezrael to the cockpit to see the first signs of other human beings through the canopy . |
| 10 | We arrived just in time to see the first members of the brass band — a trombone and a tuba — come round the corner of the lane . |
| 11 | We are only just beginning to see the first stirrings of a new debate on industry 's competitiveness . |
| 12 | As they reached the trees they heard a wild burst of cheering and turned to see the first tongues of flame licking up the walls of the cainca . |
| 13 | Research in Texas on two sulphur compounds found in garlic discovered that they blocked the conversion of certain chemicals in the gut to carcinogens , inhibiting the first stages of tumour development . |
| 14 | The poets and critics had played a considerable part in stimulating and organizing the first manifestations of the Cubists , but the connections between Orphism and contemporary literature were stronger and more direct . |
| 15 | Shehabuddin Ahmed on Dec. 9 appointed the first members of a Council of Advisers , announcing the appointment of the remainder on Dec. 16 . |
| 16 | The second HEAO was the Einstein Observatory , which produced the first pictures of astronomical objects at X-ray wavelengths . |
| 17 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The development , first reported in The Scotsman three years ago , opens up the possibility of being able to treat the first signs of breast cancer when the chances of success are highest . |
| 20 | Lucien experienced the first inklings of how the Ixmarites might possibly manipulate their own rules for their convenience . |
| 21 | IBM Corp , Apple Computer Inc and Motorola Inc are months ahead of schedule in producing the first fruits of their PowerPC RISC alliance , Associated Press reports . |
| 22 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 23 | We are now seeing the first signs of recovery and all forecasters expect to see our economy growing again in the coming year . |
| 24 | Seeing the first signs of salt water he was landed on by lots of flies which got into his eyes and irritated him more than the dust . |
| 25 | ‘ Belles cottes , pas de chemise ’ sums up Avize in parler Champenois , perhaps because , according to local tradition , the young women of this village would lie naked upon the slopes of Mont-Arme ( now , Mont-Aimé ) on the early morning of 1 March every year , to catch the first rays of sun upon their glistening bodies . |
| 26 | Throughout the Germanic West , in the decades 680–700 , ‘ appear the first elements of a renaissance , a forerunner of the great Carolingian renewal ’ . |
| 27 | This can be seen , for example , by the fact that Graham Wallas , a prominent Fabian , and L. T. Hobhouse , a leading light in New Liberalism , occupied the first chairs of Political Science and Sociology respectively . |
| 28 | In February 1990 WHO reported the first signs of HIV infection in eastern Europe and the Islamic countries of North Africa and the Middle East , regions which until recently were thought to be relatively untouched by the epidemic . |
| 29 | Jonas Salk 's team in California , USA , reported the first results of phase I/II clinical trials with a gp 120-depleted treatment vaccine . |
| 30 | As the Dwarfs approached the first ranks of Night Goblins a massive whoop went up amongst the greenskins , and from out of their formation charged Night Goblin Fanatics whirling balls and chains . |