Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She narrowed her eyes to catch the first mosquito smudge of distant cormorants — give them till daylight , she told herself as if you can command their flight ! |
| 2 | Tass confirmed on Sept. 18 , 1989 , that two Japanese journalists had been selected , in line with a $12,000,000 agreement made in March 1989 with the Tokyo TBS television network , as candidates to give the first space broadcast from Mir at an unspecified date in 1991 , despite earlier protests from Soviet journalists that the decision was unpatriotic . |
| 3 | Bombardment of the inner forts followed , and for some three weeks attempts — desultory at best — were made by trawlers to sweep the first line of mines . |
| 4 | Atkins employed these cyanotype plates to publish the first book illustrated with photographs , pre-dating her colleague William Henry Fox Talbot 's better known The Pencil of Nature ( 1844–6 ) . |
| 5 | The following study attempts to avoid the first problem by increasing the data available for the calculation of ROC curves and to address the second problem by using a much more varied selection of stimuli . |
| 6 | ‘ I allowed about 11 days to do the first chunk of recording — and she did it in five , ’ says the 49-year-old composer . |
| 7 | I have known patients who took three or four weeks to accomplish the first stage but who managed the second within a day or two . |
| 8 | The light speeded up as it got closer to you , but took ages to do the first part of the journey . |
| 9 | No one not in the profession would know for sure whether the assassin had accepted or refused the job ; and no one except the contact and , in this case , the client , would know for sure exactly who was responsible for the messy death of Seren Haminh , probably about fifty hours from now , when the hunger would be rising again and giving her a few hours to sleep the first ecstasy off . |
| 10 | On return of this document , the participant named overleaf , will automatically be registered as an entrant in the Ultimate Prize Draw , with six changes to win the first prize jackpot of £50,000 . |
| 11 | But while the latter was hobnobbing with John Stuart Mill and publishing treatises on English grammar , the former was modifying a system of synchronised electric clocks to make the first fax machine . |
| 12 | This year sees the centenary of Peter Rabbit and since Wedgwood already dominates this characterware market segment the company has added a special range of items to celebrate the first appearance of Beatrix Potter 's famous character . |
| 13 | A Mr Portier was offered five guineas to translate the first part of the Professor 's lectures on ‘ The Bones ’ . |
| 14 | Ann , made of sterner stuff than I , refused all invitations to have the first cast and eventually , crouching below the skyline , I reached the appointed place . |
| 15 | The 46-year-old Arkansas Governor stormed to a series of victories to become the first Democrat in the White House since the departure of Jimmy Carter in 1980 . |
| 16 | Sweepers raked the dirt and dung away from the front of stalls ; a muezzin called from the minaret of a nearby mosque ; chai wallahs pulled their blankets closer around them and lit their burners to boil the first tea saucepan of the day . |
| 17 | I desire you will send by y bearer 2 quarts of Sugar Hotspur peas to set the first crop , & half a peck of Windsor Beans , & pray bring y Hammer with you w . |
| 18 | Start by laying the weaving yarn over a small amount of needles , then gradually increase the amount of weaving to the centre front before decreasing the length of the rows to match the first half . |
| 19 | Any attempts to explain the first map without the controls indicated on the second would be nonsensical . |
| 20 | VAT rules are threatening a valuable scheme that helps people on unemployment and other benefits to get the first foot on the ladder to running their own businesses . |
| 21 | There was a bid by Banbury School to opt out of local control , and in a poll among the parents sixty two percent voted against the Governor 's proposals to become the first school in Oxfordshire to leave County Council control . |