Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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1 | After the first ministrations the Swedes discreetly left him to his agonies . |
2 | For one of the first things the maltster looked for was just this : uniformity of seed in the samples that the farmer showed to him . |
3 | One of the first things the children notice about the stone is his odd logic . |
4 | Naturally , one of the first things the Fields did on arrival at Lartington Hall was to start their own pack of hounds . |
5 | It says that it is the counsel of the witan determined upon as soon as Cnut and his witan established peace and friendship between Danes and English , and that one of the first things the witan decided was that they would zealously observe Edgar 's law and " investigate further at leisure what was necessary for the nation , as best they could " . |
6 | Above all , IR spectrometers are almost universally available , and so IR spectroscopy is one of the first techniques the inorganic chemist will call upon when studying a new sample . |
7 | In the first months the Provincial Juntas acted as independent sovereign states . |
8 | It was certainly the case that in the first centuries the example of Jesus must have been a tremendous model for living and for dying . |