Example sentences of "[conj] the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now continue turning the transport wheel until you have the figure 1 ( or the first row of any subsequent pattern ) showing in the little cut-out square at the left of the bottom slot on the console . |
| 2 | The long-promised higher frequency Vikings that would go a ways to proving Sparc 's scalability are supposed to be producible by the end of the fourth quarter or the first part of the new year , according to TI . |
| 3 | Oddly for years , it remained permissible to use an iron or steel stemmer providing it was not upon the " … wadding or the first part of the tamping or stemming on the powder … |
| 4 | If a book or manuscript has headings or the first capitals of paragraphs painted or printed in red , the rest of the text being black , it is said to be ‘ rubricated ’ . |
| 5 | Stateside gossip has it that Hitachi Ltd will announce a ‘ Unix mainframe ’ within the next 30 days : possibilities are either OSF/1 on its existing M-series mainframes , or the first fruits of its efforts with Hewlett-Packard Co 's Precision Architecture RISC , which is said to be a RISC-based Unix co-processor for the IBM-compatible mainframes . |
| 6 | The day of finding the vaginal plug may be designated day 0 , day ½ , day I , or the first day of pregnancy in different laboratories . |
| 7 | Spring back up without stiffening and sing ‘ gah ’ or ‘ lah ’ or the first line of a chosen poem or song . |
| 8 | At the time of writing , the whole of a payment by way of compensation for loss of office below £30,000 , or the first £30,000 of a larger payment , is tax free . |
| 9 | At the heart of almost all of Thom 's lyrics is a sense of alienation from his surroundings , whether it 's expressed in ‘ Creep ’ 's whispered final line , ‘ I do n't belong here ’ , or the first words of the last single ‘ Prove Yourself ’ , ‘ I ca n't afford to breathe in this town ’ . |
| 10 | During the last week of July or the first week of August every year , the Provincial Exhibition was held in Regina — a gala display of all manner of farm products , poultry and livestock , coupled with an ‘ extravaganza ’ by way of a grandstand show and horse-racing . |
| 11 | You could win a Runner-Up Prize of £100.00 or £10.00 — £50.00 or £5.00 — £20.00 or one of the 10 Fifth Prizes each of £500.00 or the 5 Fourth Prizes of £1,000.00 or the £5,000.00 Third Prize , the £10,000.00 Second Prize or the First Prize of £30,000.00 or even £60,000.00 if it is returned promptly . |
| 12 | The initial impact will be felt most keenly in the infant school where the first stages of the National Curriculum are already in place . |
| 13 | The price factors are calculated for the first day of the delivery month , and adjustments have to be made for accrued interest where the first day of the delivery month does not coincide with a coupon payment date . |
| 14 | Like tonight , Parents ' Evening , when they had assembled at his behest in the Staff Common Room overlooking the school driveway to watch out for arriving parents and usher them through to the headmaster 's sitting-room , where the first part of the festivities were to take place . |
| 15 | A similar case of Fermi resonance occurs in , where the first overtone of the C=S stretch at 1033 cm -1 interacts with the N=C stretch near 2070 cm -1 to give two IR bands of comparable intensity ( Fig. 5.35 ) . |
| 16 | Jamaica , where the first railway of 1845 was the first in the British colonial empire , was provided with a diverse group of wonderfully eccentric stations . |
| 17 | Who would have thought today Sarajevo , where the first shot of that war was fired , would be in the news ? |
| 18 | Mr Justice Morrit held that the first payment of £4,000 on 30 January together with the monthly sum of £1,000 by banker 's order was not enough to discharge in full the invoice for January 's work by the accountants , which was £5,307.25 . |
| 19 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 20 | Ironically , the latest historical theorists claim as very likely the idea that the first king of the city of Rome was indeed a Romulus . |
| 21 | Specialists have estimated that the first decade of dismantling will cost 2.5 billion roubles . |
| 22 | SOUTH Down MP Eddie McGrady has called on Agriculture Minister Lord Arran to ensure that the first instalment of the Beef Special Premium is paid at the beginning of November . |
| 23 | But in a case where the discussion begins with the fact that the description of the goods by which they were sold points to one particular purpose only , it seems to me that the first requirement of the subsection is satisfied … |
| 24 | It 's in a tiny cottage in Oxfordshire that the first signs of the latest trouble for the Princess of Wales may have been predicted . |
| 25 | The draft Approved Document also contains a provision requiring that the first occupants of a dwelling must receive instructions on how to look after the smoke detector system that has been installed . |
| 26 | The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) confirmed on Nov. 15 that the first consignment of confiscated enriched uranium had been airlifted to the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | We do have evidence that the first generation of Afro-Caribbean immigrants was exceptionally law abiding . |
| 28 | But in his innocence — and Murrells was , administratively speaking , an innocent — he had forgotten that the first prerequisite of British control was to identify the men who would function as British agents , so that they could , in the event of unsatisfactory performance , be replaced . |
| 29 | But it 's only now , 17 years after her death , that the first lady of crime fiction has at last acquired a fan club . |
| 30 | Our evidence which shows that the first glimmerings of our new paradigm emerged around 1860 and we expect that by 2010 the shift will be virtually complete , although it will take longer for its changes to affect everyone . |