Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The isolation of the first gene involved in determining ‘ intelligence ’ ( whatever that is ) will be a turning point in human history . |
| 2 | A spokesman for LEEL said they wanted the event to continue , adding : ‘ However , our involvement was in helping to establish the feasibility of the first event . |
| 3 | Hence unc on extraction of the first factor . |
| 4 | The bulk of the first part of this book is devoted to the contractual relationship between the buyer and seller , i.e. the rights and duties between them . |
| 5 | I commend the order to the House to afford continued statutory protection to the very small number of teachers taking up new contracts of employment during any hiatus between the current date of expiry of the 1987 Act and the coming into force of the first pay and conditions order under the 1991 Act . |
| 6 | " Each day " , asserted a French newspaper in 1900 , " the press becomes … more of a diplomatic force of the first order " . |
| 7 | Karl Egon von Fürstenburg , who died in 1757 , was a president of the first Academy of Sciences . |
| 8 | The transcription initiation process in prokaryotes can be formally divided into four major steps : ( a ) binding of the RNA polymerase to the promoter to form a ‘ closed complex ’ , ( b ) isomerization of the closed complex into a structure in which the DNA is melted in the initiation region , forming an ‘ open complex ’ , ( c ) incorporation of the first nucleoside triphosphates ( NTPs ) to produce an initiated complex and , ( d ) transition into an elongation complex that leaves the promoter ( 1,2 ) . |
| 9 | Anti-Communism lay behind several setbacks to early Soviet initiatives in the area , notably the closure of the first trading office in Latin America , Iuzhamtorg ( set up in Buenos Aires in 1927 ) , by the military regime of General José Uriburu who came to power in a 1930 coup . |
| 10 | Some remarks made by P. Gurrey in 1931 can serve as an indicator of the closure of the first phase . |
| 11 | Apart from the 24–21 loss of the First Test , all the members tended to stack up against Ireland during their eight-match tour of New Zealand . |
| 12 | To guard against accidents — such as the loss of the first packet , for example , or a furious spate of activity when the chemists ' were closed — he bought another packet of condoms and secreted them under the lining paper of his sock drawer . |
| 13 | Both men had served in the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers where d'Alembord had succeeded Sharpe to the command of the first battalion 's light company . |
| 14 | Their fluency deceives and leads foreign language teachers to perceive their learners ' command of the first language as perfect by comparison with their knowledge of the foreign language . |
| 15 | As a result of the first evaluation special attention was given to the development of more participatory methods of health education . |
| 16 | First , there was a very large increase in the share of petroleum imports from 1973 to 1976 , mainly as a result of the first oil shock ; and again from 1979 to 1982 , as a result of the second oil shock . |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher rejected a personal campaign , preferring to emphasise her stature by carrying out her normal official duties which included a visit to Ulster and attendance at the Security and Cooperation summit in Paris ( where she was when the result of the first ballot was announced ) . |
| 18 | The result of the first ballot was announced at 6.30 pm on Tuesday 20 November . |
| 19 | She was also mistaken in declaring her intention to fight on immediately the result of the first ballot was known . |
| 20 | It came at a time when dislocation of the Latin American economies as a result of the First World War caused widespread unemployment and increasingly militant labour unrest . |
| 21 | use of L1 ( first language ) rules is hypothesised to be the result of the first language knowledge when a second language We is needed in production but is not available . |
| 22 | It was a repeat of the result of the first Fourball series at Muirfield village two years ago but only the second time that the Americans had been shut out since the fourball format was introduced at Atlanta in 1963 . |
| 23 | The response conditioned to A might generalize more to B as a result of the first stage of training ; or this training might reduce the extent to which generalization occurs to C ; or both of these effects could be occurring . |
| 24 | As a result of the first inquiry the Hospital Advisory Service ( now the Health Advisory Service ) was set up in 1969 to visit , assess and criticize hospitals constructively and to help bring about improvements in their general standards . |
| 25 | Milongo , who received only 10.18 per cent of the vote , was reported to have petitioned the Supreme Court on Aug. 11 to have the result of the first round annulled because of irregularities . |
| 26 | It was murder of the first degree . |
| 27 | NOTEBOOK readers could provide the missing human element in a book being compiled by two members of a group dedicated to the study of the First World War . |
| 28 | The arch-ditherer Argyll , signatory of the first bond , now subscribed the second . |
| 29 | Its downward trend was disturbed only by the uncertainty of the First World War and a sharp but transient post-war baby boom . |
| 30 | Haines was a strange mixture , a man with a romantic vision for the future of the first conquest of Queen Victoria 's reign , a skilful politician amongst Arabs but not amongst his fellow-countrymen , with a sailor 's practicality in such matters as building a town but not in administration . |