Example sentences of "[subord] the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price factors are calculated for the first day of the delivery month , and adjustments have to be made for accrued interest where the first day of the delivery month does not coincide with a coupon payment date . |
| 2 | Like tonight , Parents ' Evening , when they had assembled at his behest in the Staff Common Room overlooking the school driveway to watch out for arriving parents and usher them through to the headmaster 's sitting-room , where the first part of the festivities were to take place . |
| 3 | A similar case of Fermi resonance occurs in , where the first overtone of the C=S stretch at 1033 cm -1 interacts with the N=C stretch near 2070 cm -1 to give two IR bands of comparable intensity ( Fig. 5.35 ) . |
| 4 | Jamaica , where the first railway of 1845 was the first in the British colonial empire , was provided with a diverse group of wonderfully eccentric stations . |
| 5 | Who would have thought today Sarajevo , where the first shot of that war was fired , would be in the news ? |
| 6 | ‘ I feel there is a need for experience in all positions and I 'm not blaming James for anything other than the first goal against Chesterfield . |
| 7 | Then he reached the first green of the tournament proper — rather than the first green of the practice rounds . |
| 8 | Delighted bosses at Liberty , which opened 19 of its 21 stores , estimated they had taken 10 per cent more than the first day of last year 's winter sales . |
| 9 | To which the best answer is : a lot better than the first person in any queue organised by Mr Kaufman . |
| 10 | Since this row does n't hold the comb , it is less stretched , so therefore firmer , than the first row of a welt knitting in the basic , or conventional way . |
| 11 | For example , the first syllable of ‘ poetic ’ is more prominent than the first syllable of ‘ pathetic ’ . |
| 12 | These refer to a title set lower than the first line of a page of ordinary text . |
| 13 | than the first flush of youth and the first lick of eyeshadow . |
| 14 | In 1930 they scored 132 goals , five more than the first team in their record Championship year . |
| 15 | Stretching the leg muscles and tendons increases flexibility and improves one 's kicking potential , although the first purpose of stretching is to avoid injury . |
| 16 | Although the first issue for 1858 welcomed the Nazimov Rescript with a banner headline , and although Herzen freely acknowledged that Alexander II had earned his place in history by setting the process of emancipation in train , by May 1858 The Bell had restarted its pressure for emancipation with land and soon it was insisting that much remained to be done before the process of reform bore fruit . |
| 17 | Although the first law of kung fu fighting states that you should , if possible , always keep two feet on the ground , circumstances arise in which a student may slip and fall to the floor , or fail to stop a strike and be knocked to the ground as a result . |
| 18 | One such association was with R.A.F. Medmenham , the origins of which perhaps date to the early part of the last War when Danesfield House at Medmenham was taken over by the R.A.F. as its photographic unit , although the first reference in the Minutes is October 1953 . |
| 19 | Although the first couple of fences are usually very straightforward , the horse must jump them correctly . |
| 20 | Although the first part of the Pilgrim 's Progress was written during this period of imprisonment , it was not published at the time . |
| 21 | By June , new wireless sets had arrived , although the first consignment in one of the few supply errors , had no acid for their heavy ‘ wet ’ ( distilled water ) batteries . |
| 22 | ALTHOUGH the first course in business ethics was offered by Harvard Business School back in 1915 , it is only since the mid-1980s that business schools have truly taken the subject to their hearts . |
| 23 | But although the first ground for the granting of warrants is , as drafted , the most troubling , the second ( for preventing or detecting serious crime ) is also a cause for concern . |
| 24 | Jumping out of an aircraft is a nervy business at the best of times , so the first jump of a new season can be a jittery time , especially when you 're the elite RAF Falcons . |
| 25 | PPC : We 'd estimate that 99% of shareware authors include their own address in the documentation somewhere , and many also include an order form , so the first point of contact is usually plain to see . |
| 26 | However , once the first contingent of Marines arrived under President Johnson 's orders in 1965 , Hollywood responded with a small number of hastily-made low-budget second-features depicting this new war . |
| 27 | Once the first version of the report has been drafted it can be proof-read and amended . |
| 28 | Naturally , once the first paragraph of his letter met my eyes , I sat down with reassurance to say how sorry I was not to have written earlier and to have delayed giving him an account of the Italian visit . |
| 29 | Such radicalism demanded too much , because there was little popular momentum to be gained from harmony through compromise , once the first flush of enthusiasm engendered by Mrs Stowe passed . |
| 30 | Dr. Macilwain , who moved to the area in the early 1950s , provided the first surgery at the end of Park Street . |