Example sentences of "[vb base] the first [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European champions , who host the first leg in 11 days ' time , have lost Ruud Gullit and Marco Van Basten and are struggling for form . |
| 2 | For many young academics they provide the first step in the ladder of publications , now an essential requisite for career advancement . |
| 3 | Some longer than others , I never forget the first day in Liverpool , I was a |
| 4 | DEC has decided to withdraw from exhibiting at the London Open Systems Show the first week in November , saying that it is worried about lack of support for the event . |
| 5 | Toss the first ball in your right hand towards your left one and as it peaks throw the ball in the left hand towards the right and catch the first ball in your left . |
| 6 | I have a huge group of people who meet the first Thursday in every month |
| 7 | erm , erm feel like they 're getting the benefit again , again and again , you now make the costs of at every point they take another , they 've got more coming in , erm in terms of cash and er at every point I seem to loose , I loose the first case in ninety one and everything now seems to go against me , it seems as though I do n't stand a chance any more . |
| 8 | If you control the first link in the food chain — the seed — you are well on the way to controlling the whole food chain . |
| 9 | The releases mark the first improvement in the human rights situation in Malawi for several years . |
| 10 | Toss the first ball in your right hand towards your left one and as it peaks throw the ball in the left hand towards the right and catch the first ball in your left . |
| 11 | But you would n't have C command , I mean that if you take the first structure in seven , that 's just the one in T three . |
| 12 | Much the easiest way to assemble a larger labour force was to buy slaves , and the Dutch were ready to help with this , giving the fairly long credit that anyone who wanted to become a planter would need in order to finance his purchases of slaves and of machinery to crush the cane and take the first steps in refining it . |
| 13 | Home advantage meant that pitches could be prepared especially to suit fast bowlers , and come the first Test in Jamaica it was soon evident this is what had happened . |
| 14 | Well on a Monday okay I have an hour in the morning , I have the first hour in the morning and er oh God . |
| 15 | And there are similar slightly different arguments , for instance Descartes ' version which takes q = you are dreaming and argues that since you do n't know that you are not dreaming you do n't know any proposition p of which you know that if p were true you would not be dreaming ( see the first Meditation in Descartes , 1955 ) . |
| 16 | You see the first church in our parish , was in here . |
| 17 | mine are you see the first week in December . |
| 18 | Out , Such , and Between represent the first steps in Christine Brooke-Rose 's ongoing exploration of the complex relations between subjectivity and the discursive matrix in which it is embedded . |