Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 2 | He was responsible for drawing up the first comprehensive anti-drugs strategy , unveiled in September 1989 , which involved increased spending , heavier penalties for casual users and incentives to drug-producing countries to clamp down on narcotics production . |
| 3 | In fact holoenzymes reconstituted in vitro with truncated α-subunits , α-235 or α-256 , containing respectively the first 235 and 256 amino acids of the 329 residues of the α protein were perfectly able to initiate transcription at constitutive promoters , but were unable to respond to CRP activation at type I promoters [ 13 ] . |
| 4 | Although menstrual cycles vary quite considerably in length from person to person , the average length is about 28 days with the ‘ period ’ taking up the first five or six of these . |
| 5 | I looked past Robin-Anne to where the moon 's path gleamed on the long waves , and then I glanced forward and saw another belt of silver , but this one diffuse and hazy , showing where the first crepuscular light seeped over the world 's grey edge . |
| 6 | The ascii code allows for these by setting aside the first 32 values , from 00h to 1Fh , as ‘ control characters ’ . |
| 7 | Robinson ran a school for retarded Christian children and had clashed with local villagers , who accused him of setting up the first Israeli settlement in Lebanon . |
| 8 | Palmer won the man-of-the-match award after a superb performance , setting up the first two goals and scoring the third . |
| 9 | We have three levels of communicative assessments ( covering roughly the first three years of the secondary curriculum ) which I coordinate on behalf of EMREB and the LEAs . |