Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also here is the tomb of San Saccaria , the founder of the Barnabites for whom the first church was built . |
| 2 | It brought closer Home Office control and local authority subsidy to reformatories for children for whom the first resort of probation had either failed or was thought inappropriate . |
| 3 | ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said . |
| 4 | This general outline story of the first Passover is called the Haggadah , after which the first part of the special Psalms for Passover are sung , known as the Hallel Psalms ( Psalms 112–13 ) . |
| 5 | It is acceptable to use the same name as someone else if it is used for a different class of goods or services to the ones for which the first mark is registered . |
| 6 | This information has been taken from an article ( Saunders and Hon-Chung , 1984 ) in the Journal of Sales Management for which the first author was editor . |
| 7 | On Oct. 18 , 1989 , the World Bank approved two loans totalling $89,000,000 , through its soft-loan affiliate , the International Development Association ( IDA ) ; $45,000,000 represented the second tranche of an industrial sector adjustment credit , of which the first tranche of $62,000,000 had been released in 1988 . |
| 8 | The radius ( R ) is typically 5-branched : its main stem is convex and divides into two , of which the first branch ( R1 ) passes directly to the wing-margin : the second branch or radial sector ( Rs ) is concave and divides into four veins ( R2 to R5 ) . |
| 9 | Will it be possible to finish the 12 — 2 guinea plates the 2nd thirty small ones and the thirty of which the first ground has been done by the first of April next — or the end of March — give opinion on this … ? ’ |
| 10 | The countries emerged with a five point plan of action , of which the first step is to " encourage the widest possible participation of Francophone countries in all international meetings on the environment " . |
| 11 | Even the recipe for George Washington 's mother 's gingerbread allegedly found " in an old worn cookery book " dated 1784 , of which the first item on the list of ingredients is ½ cup of margarine , could be said to be honest in the sense that it is candidly admitted that margarine is what is actually now used in the kitchens at Claverton Manor , the American Museum near Bath where both the gingerbread and the leaflet giving the recipe are purveyed to the public . |
| 12 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |
| 13 | I did n't think much of it the first time . |
| 14 | ‘ Nothing ever comes of it the first time , anyway , ’ Mandy assured her . |
| 15 | It was suggested that as principal it had knowledge of whatever the first bank did as its agent . |
| 16 | A start state , state 0 , must always be included , into which the first version of a module following the model will enter . |
| 17 | ‘ I fell in love with her the first time I saw her , ’ Jean was saying . |
| 18 | Anyway I made completely the wrong decision with her with her the first time . |
| 19 | I was lucky enough not to be court martialled , quite apart from getting away with it the first night . |
| 20 | From time to time a little breeze , trapped in the courtyard , eddied and gusted in their direction , bringing with it the first hint of the sweet smell of decay . |
| 21 | I got right into it the first couple of series . |
| 22 | One case was previously published and the second was in a patient in whom the first polyp was discovered and biopsied in December 1986 . |
| 23 | Enteroscopy has identified small intestinal lesions in a further 30–40% of patients in whom the first line investigations were normal . |
| 24 | The warming phase was interrupted by a cold snap in which the first flip from warm to cool took only three years . |
| 25 | Of course a chronological narrative can be constructed , but the history of physics in fact has its own temporality in which the first event after Aristotle was Newton , the second was Einstein , the third black holes , etc . |
| 26 | Non-finite clauses are those whose predicator element consists of a non-finite verbal group , such as those in which the first verb in sequence is in one of the following forms . |
| 27 | These are the Fieldnames but in many spreadsheets the cells in which the first row of data is entered are just as important , if not more so than the names themselves . |
| 28 | A good example is provided by his comment on the way in which the first editor of the journal Nature allowed his personal opinions to intrude upon its pages : ‘ [ Norman ] Lockyer sometimes forgets that he is only the editor and not the author of Nature . ’ |
| 29 | Yet the circumstances in which ( 2d ) might be uttered are likely to be quite different from those in which the first sentence of extract ( I ) was uttered . |
| 30 | Compounds in which the first element is a number in some form also tend to have final stress : |