Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cimflex Teknowledge Corp of Pittsburgh is selling the unit that represents the first part of its name , its Automated Factories Division , to Flexpack Corp , a wholly owned unit of Julius Capital Partners LP.The price includes assumption of some liabilities , about $160,000 in cash and potential royalty payments dependent on future Flexpack sales . |
| 2 | ‘ Old school ’ , a term that describes the first wave of US rap originators , is now a bona fide street fashion craze . |
| 3 | One of the areas that shows the first signs of body ageing is the upper arms — they can become thick and flabby and as a result shapeless . |
| 4 | No one has yet explained to me what happens to your filter if you set up an aquarium and lock up the ammonia that forms the first stage of the nitrogen cycle as Ammo Lock claims to do . |
| 5 | One particular wolf or hunting dog is not always the individual that takes the first grip on its victim . |
| 6 | In other instances the consolidator provides a master air waybill that indicates the first airline by inserting that airline 's stamp accompanied by a mention of the consolidator 's agency but without an indicating of the flight number . |
| 7 | Often at dawn the sky would be perfectly clear and the air had the crispness that heralds the first night frost . |
| 8 | new marriage , new spouse intestacy rules , spouse is the nearest and gets the first lot so it presumes that having got married you want that spouse to have what you 've got . |
| 9 | Section 4 describes the wealth and asset return measures used and presents the first stage regression used to obtain instruments for expected returns . |
| 10 | ( Z ) This is a useful addition to the Agenda and gives the first intimation to members that they should book the date . |
| 11 | At the centre of this system is a conventional closed.loop stepping motor control , in which a START signal changes the phase excitation pattern once and initiates the first motor step . |
| 12 | Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky and becomes the first US chess champion : posing the question , Where is Reykjavik ? |
| 13 | An icy blast erupts from the caster and strikes the first unit in its path and within its range of 24″ . |
| 14 | The drive is lined all the way by graceful lime trees and provides the first hint as to the verity of Tennyson 's description of Gunby Hall in a poem dated 1849 , where he describes it was a ‘ haunt of ancient peace ’ . |
| 15 | As regards the first point , I have suggested that the ‘ tertiary sector ’ expansion has increased the heterogeneity of non-manual/industrial positions within the division of labour . |
| 16 | As regards the first set of causes one can point to the conservative/speculative behaviour of British financial institutions ( discussed in chapter 3 ) ; the failure to develop fully the advanced multi-divisional forms of capitalist enterprise ; the continuing low social valuation of ‘ industry ’ relative to the ‘ liberal professions ’ ; and the relative paucity of commercially-relevant research and development . |
| 17 | Periodical payments of maintenance escape the statutory charge as does the first £2,500 of any money or property preserved or recovered ( Civil Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1989 , reg 94 ) . |