Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found him a ‘ rather stern-featured man ’ , with a strong Northumbrian accent and seems to have preferred the ‘ Rocket ’ which she described as ‘ This snorting little animal , which I felt inclined to pat … ’ and so ranks among the first to fall under the spell of the steam locomotive . |
| 2 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 3 | The frequency of intercourse approximately halves in the first year of marriage but takes about 20 years to halve again . |
| 4 | The earliest record for spring arrival is of one at Chidham on 23 March 1971 , but arrival always starts in the first 10 days of April , and some movement continues to mid-June . |
| 5 | The change usually occurs on the first beat of a bar or phrase , which eliminates any fussiness when the footwork is intricate . |
| 6 | The transfer of Mrs Padmore still threatens on the first page . |
| 7 | There is no time limit on the patient 's capacity for physical recovery , although an experienced physiotherapist usually knows within the first few weeks of starting treatment how quick or slow a hemiplegic patient 's physical recovery is likely to be . |
| 8 | It clearly ranks as the first written literature of any consequence . |
| 9 | The current study clearly shows for the first time that PT-gliadin and/or fragments are intracellulary present in normal enterocytes after exposure . |
| 10 | This also applies to the first return . |
| 11 | The death of Aegidius was recorded within the account of the Loire wars in the Angers chronicle , and his son Syagrius later appears as the first of the opponents and victims of Childeric 's son Clovis . |
| 12 | The club now meets on the first Tuesday evening in the month from 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm . |
| 13 | For example , the Turkish translation of ( 95 ) might be glossed as ( 96 ) , where the proximal demonstrative anaphorically refers to the first referent introduced , and the distal demonstrative to the second : ( 95 ) John and Mary came into the room : he was laughing but she was crying ( 96 ) John and Mary came into the room : this was laughing , but that was crying In that case , there are good arguments for considering that anaphora ultimately rests on deictic notions ( Lyons , 1977a : 671 ) . |
| 14 | Conversely , it is also important to realise that if diarrhoea starts again or even occurs for the first time in a patient treated by gluten restriction , the patient should be investigated for colonic disorders , since the answer may not simply or necessarily rest with dietary lapses , an unresponsiveness phase , or lymphoma . |
| 15 | Perhaps , as in humans , immunisation occasionally occurs during the first pregnancy , and the 8 per cent refers to these foals . |
| 16 | Most Orthopteroid insects , Mecoptera , Trichoptera and Hymenoptera show only a little more concentration than this , but the metathoracic ganglion commonly fuses with the first 1–3 abdominal ones and the 7th and subsequent abdominal ganglia form a compound centre . |
| 17 | Plainly this error too derives from the first one , for if the concept ‘ profession ’ has no theoretical existence , and yet is recognised as a concept , it lacks all material grounding . |
| 18 | On the horn , by the way , the actual fundamental note of each series can not be produced ; each series therefore begins with the first harmonic , i.e. the octave from the fundamental . |