Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] [noun pl] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The single-sex environment of mid-nineteenth-century US women 's colleges seems to have provided a uniquely supportive environment for the first women psychologists , for example ( Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 ) . |
| 2 | It may be one of the first times citizens anywhere have been allowed to vote on detailed defence-procurement questions . |
| 3 | Following the success of the first Alumni Teachers ' Meeting at the University 's Schools ' Open Day , it is intended that such meetings will become a regular event . |
| 4 | Church leaders in Gloucester have named the date for the ordination of the first women priests in the diocese . |
| 5 | The girl , who was reading English at Puddephat 's college — one of the first women students there , in fact — had been found dead in her room just before the end of the summer term . |
| 6 | She became one of the first women fellows in 1919 , when women were finally admitted . |
| 7 | A star item of a different kind was T.H. Gillespie 's Story of the Edinburgh Zoo , for it contains illustrations by Nancy Brackett , one of the first women elders at St.A 's & St.G 's . |
| 8 | The Lancet 's sustained opposition to the first women doctors , the ‘ advance guard of the Amazonian army ’ as it dubbed them , was argued on the grounds that young ladies would be rendered indelicate , and by implication immoral , by attending lectures and dissections on human anatomy and pathology . |
| 9 | In their eighties , they were still living in Norham Gardens , the North Oxford avenue that leads to Lady Margaret Hall , the women 's college where they had studied and taught ; they had been among the first women students to be allowed officially to take a degree , though woman sat the examinations in order to make the point after the college 's foundation in 1878 . |