Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For where the first stage , the mechanised production in factories of consumer goods for an existing colonial market virtually monopolised by Britain , promised and provided immediate and enormous profit on a relatively modest outlay , the second did not . |
| 2 | The importance of damping down retaliation is dramatized by the following memoir by a British ( as if the first sentence left us in any doubt ) officer : |
| 3 | LIKE THE band itself , ‘ Shine On ’ is a shark-sleek and automatically impressive product to come into contact with for the first time . |
| 4 | When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together . |
| 5 | The project is methodologically innovative in that the first phase consists of an ethnographic study of gender in the primary school aimed at providing a description of the role which gender plays in the organisation of social life . |
| 6 | When finished , pull the little loop at the left of the cast on and the first row will tighten up very neatly — the yarn from the holding position row pulls through . |