Example sentences of "[subord] of [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rearranged game with Grimsby for February 25 has been postponed again because of the first leg . |
| 2 | His appeal to the Supreme Court that the Smith Act was unconstitutional because of the First Amendment was rejected . |
| 3 | Children are likely to be brought into contact with , and dependence on , a large number of ‘ step ’ relatives because of the first mechanism . |
| 4 | We travelled back and forth between England and India until I was seven when , because of the First World War , we did not leave India for five idyllic years from 1915 . |
| 5 | Between 1912 and 1930 their most successful period was 1914–18 when all football was suspended because of the First World War . |
| 6 | Ptolemy ranked it as of the first magnitude , and seems to have referred to it as ‘ the Last of the River ’ ; from Alexandria he could not see Achernar , though Acamar was visible low over the horizon . |