Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This potentially , means that there can now be up to 32,767 unique fonts — each with their four basic stylistic variations , although Apple reserve the first 1,024 . |
| 2 | In November 1990 , a man convicted of multiple rape and murder became the first person in Tunisia to be executed since the President came to power in 1987 . |
| 3 | This particular book Etchings Illustrative of Scottish Character and Scenery represents the first appearance of a deaf artist in pictorial literature . |
| 4 | To illustrate Jakobson 's approach to these texts , let us take his analysis ( with L.G. Jones ) of Shakespeare 's Sonnet cxxix , ‘ Th'Expence of Spirit ’ ( 1970 ) : The analysis considers in turn the following relationships of equivalence and contrast ( which evidently depends on and emphasizes equivalence ) in the poem ( the spelling and punctuation follow the first edition ) : ( 1 ) those which oppose the first seven lines to the last seven ; ( 2 ) those which are constant features of the text as a whole ; ( 3 ) those which oppose strophes I and III to II and IV ; ( 4 ) those which oppose strophes I and IV to ( I and III ( the outer and the inner ) ; ( 5 ) those which oppose strophes I and II to III and IV ; ( 6 ) those which oppose the final couplet to the rest of the poem ; and ( 7 ) those which oppose the middle couplet ( lines 7 and 8 ) to the rest of the poem . |
| 5 | The purchase of Ephron 's field and cave represents the first step towards Israel 's actual possession of the Promised Land . |
| 6 | In Germany the large shift in Jewish identity came in the eighteenth and especially the nineteenth centuries as no longer Yiddish but German became the first language for most Jews . |