Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Trees seemed to be waiting for Tealtaoich to make the first move and the largest of the Oaks had inclined their heads quite courteously . |
| 2 | They include testimony from one witness who recalls dumping buckets of waste from the Manhattan Project , during work to produce the first atomic bomb in the early 1940s . |
| 3 | In a narrow sense my main interest is the period in which the Kaiser ruled over Germany , which of course includes the First World War . |
| 4 | Initialisation involves a change of handshape to represent the first letter of the English translation of the sign ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 5 | Shellac records were simply too fragile to be posted ; so the special circumstances of war justified the first vinyl records . |
| 6 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 7 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 8 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 9 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 10 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 11 | In 1987 Conservative ministers boasted of their success while still claiming that the conquest of inflation remained the first objective of policy . |
| 12 | In icy American logging camps it was common for the cook to detonate small amounts of dynamite to cook the first meal of the day , which brought a whole new meaning to bangers for breakfast . |
| 13 | The King James translation of the Book of Genesis renders the first line as In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth , confident that prior to God there was nothing , that Yahweh created the universe ex nihilo . |
| 14 | It would obviously be the worst of craftsmanship to score the first four bars as they stand for the violins and viola and at the fifth bar to weaken one of the parts by division . |
| 15 | In the 1952 election campaign the Republicans promised to take a tough line with the Russians , and the appointment of John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State seemed the first step in fulfilling that pledge . |
| 16 | The Court of Appeal dismissed the first and second defendants ' appeal against Mr Justice Vinelott 's order that the defendants permit the plaintiff 's solicitors to inspect and take copies of an affidavit in the possession of the defendants ' solicitors . |
| 17 | And of course , pen computing is also to the fore , with TriGem announcing the first pen starter pack priced at under £2,000 . |
| 18 | In addition , a massive development programme is under way to produce the first large , LCD HDTV screens . |
| 19 | Five others who had been eligible for parole following the first trial were now imprisoned . |
| 20 | The argument from analogy concedes the first half of this but denies the second , claiming that we have at least some evidence to the contrary . |
| 21 | The decision of the BBC to change the format , in effect dropping the first half of the old programme , is not surprising . |
| 22 | Babies are conceived for a variety of reasons apart from basic urges — some over a wayward partner who shows signs of straying from the fold ; in competition with a sister who has recently conceived or in determination to produce the first grandchild . |
| 23 | The ploy worked and from its modest slot around 4.30 on Sunday afternoons Pathfinders in Space attracted the first real family audience for a science fiction serial . |
| 24 | ‘ In promotion campaigns the first six games and the last six games are vitally important . |
| 25 | It also suits the fans likewise , who quite like to pop off to the cricket after lunch , and who also might like to travel to away league matches without having to leave before dawn to see the first ball bowled . |
| 26 | So early oxygen levels would have been periodically depressed , in order to allow the first photosynthesizers to carry on evolving . |
| 27 | The trip to Milan was made in order to write the first opera , Lucio Silla , for the 1772–1773 carnival season there . |
| 28 | Mozart 's father and sister travelled to Munich early in 1781 in order to hear the first performance of the opera on 29 January . |
| 29 | In order to solve the first of these differences the two kings signed the Treaty of Andelot in 587 , but Guntram remained suspicious of his nephew . |
| 30 | A knot is required in order to make the first fastening . |