Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research by Jim Cummins and others showed clearly that the better kids develop their first language , the better they do in English . |
| 2 | Finally , operators recommend that motorhome clients spend their first night in a hotel or motel . |
| 3 | I know that a lot of youngsters gain their first experience of shooting with bolting rabbits but I do think that so much preparatory work is necessary to create the opportunity for the rabbits to be killed that the chance must not be missed . |
| 4 | Shop prices in Russia and the Ukraine have risen sharply as the two countries take their first steps to a market economy by removing state controls . |
| 5 | Shop prices in Russia and the Ukraine have risen sharply as the two countries take their first steps to a market economy by removing state controls . |
| 6 | Administrative axe falls most heavily on the centre as its size is pared down ; economic axe falls most heavily on the less efficient , as unemployment and bankruptcies make their first appearance . |
| 7 | British buyers get their first glimpse of the new 100 , in V6 form , at the end of April . |
| 8 | This was to Eleanor of Aquitaine and it was celebrated just eight weeks alter her first marriage , to King Louis VII of France , had been annulled . |
| 9 | In that cohort , council tenants have their first child much sooner after marriage than owner occupiers ( median interval thirteen months compared with thirty months ) and also have their third births much sooner after their second . |
| 10 | Such clichés fill her first speech of welcome to Wilekin with a set of offers that for the reader and writer are ironically naive in the context of which we are aware : ( " If you like , come and sit , and what your will is , let me know , my dear life . |
| 11 | THE ADVENTURES make their first UK appearance since '88 with shows at . |
| 12 | Where young players take their first steps on the international ladder at senior level . |
| 13 | THE SUNDAYS issue their first single on Parlophone in two weeks . |
| 14 | The great majority of voters give their first vote either to the CDU/CSU or to the SPD in much the same way as most British voters give their only vote to the Conservatives or Labour : that is where their basic loyalty lies . |
| 15 | Streetwise Intermediate explores such subjects as how children acquire their first language ; gestures ; and varieties of English . |
| 16 | The acquisition — learning distinction This point concerns the difference between language acquisition ( the process whereby children learn their first language , which is usually subconscious and constitutes ‘ picking-up ’ the language naturally ) and language learning ( conscious knowledge of the rules of the language ) . |
| 17 | Students take their first physiology courses in the second year and a further course in the third year . |
| 18 | Clios which are fitted with diesel engines require their first service at 5,000 miles and minor services then follow at 5,000 mile intervals . |
| 19 | In several African countries in which marriage or first union takes place comparatively earlier in life , one half of the women bore their first child before reaching age 19 ; in Bangladesh , 50 per cent of the women had at least one child when they were 16.5 years old . |
| 20 | Many little boys experience their first erections while watching their mothers dressing . |
| 21 | THE Tories face their first by-election of the new Parliament after the death of Judith Chaplin , 53 , the Conservative MP for Newbury , and a confidante of John Major . |
| 22 | THE COCTEAU TWINS unveil their first recording since 1990 's ‘ Heaven Or Las Vegas ’ album and the group 's subsequent departure from 4AD , in the forthcoming Volume 5 CD magazine . |
| 23 | DURHAM WASPS take their first steps into European competition today when they face Rotterdam Pandas , hosts of the four-team first round in the European Cup . |