Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 2 | You do n't need a theological background to see there is a difference between the way that Paul writes in the first part of chapter 15 and in the second . |
| 3 | The poet writes in the first person singular as a man talking to a loved one about the inevitable advent of his death , and yet the matter discussed here is not so much death as the gradual disappearance of life . |
| 4 | At the beginning Dickens piles up adjectives in order to set the scene and build atmosphere as is shown when he writes in the first chapter |
| 5 | For a start , there 's a whole team of people who work to make sure it happens in the first place . |
| 6 | This happens in the First World as well as in the Third World . |
| 7 | The sophistication and range of this style of cooking grew , as Sheila describes in the first chapter of her book . |
| 8 | Deep slow wave sleep ( Stages 3 and 4 ) predominates in the first half of the night . |
| 9 | Within manufacture , the precise form of division depends in the first instance on the historical precursors of the capitalistic form of production in the given branch of industry — whether the ‘ manufacturer ’ ( a ) draws together previously separate trades into one workshop to produce a common product or ( b ) splits up a previously unified craft production process into its component tasks . |
| 10 | The answer to such questions depends in the first place upon what we mean by ‘ syndrome ’ . |
| 11 | So from the relationship that developed during that period we developed the collaboration which features in the first section of Passion . |
| 12 | is judged to be acceptable , because it can be ‘ completed ’ by squirted with the hose , and that exact phrase occurs in the first part of the sentence . |
| 13 | Teesside Crown Court heard he suffered a black eye and cuts in the first attack . |
| 14 | In the last two stanzas , Blake is explaining the marks of woe that he sees in the first stanza — but what extraordinary connections to make ! |
| 15 | Because of demand , because of the demand exists in the first place |
| 16 | The reason for the two limbs of this rule is purely technical to ensure that there is neither an exclusion of damages for breach of duty , nor an exclusion of any duty which exists in the first place . |
| 17 | The way it just sort of ends in the first sentence . ’ |
| 18 | Remove flower stems in the first year for a stronger bushier plant . |
| 19 | Taking enforcement action requires in the first place techniques to bring deviance to light . |
| 20 | The Cherry and Whites are used to winning against Nottingham … last time they played it was for league points in the first division … |
| 21 | In particular , I am pleased to note a number of important developments stemming from action points in the first Plan . |
| 22 | The following example comes from the interview with Sally Jordan , a factory worker and a dustman 's wife ; she belongs in the first group of working-class women whose early positive or non-committal response turns into predominantly negative feeling : |
| 23 | Gorbachev on Dec. 4 had announced to the USSR Supreme Soviet emergency plans to import basic foodstuffs to the value of 2,100 million roubles ( US$1,050 million at the new commercial exchange rate ) to ensure that supplies in the first quarter of 1991 were at the levels of the same period in 1990 . |
| 24 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
| 25 | Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence . |
| 26 | Completes in the first sentence needs to be in upper case . |
| 27 | Only the defeat of Germany in 1945 made it possible for a satisfactory study of German war aims in the first world war to be undertaken . |
| 28 | Indeed , if there is a zero eigenvalue , it appears in the first transformation , i.e. in B. It follows that shifting ( see 2.7.4 ) can be used with great advantage to accelerate convergence . |
| 29 | The poem which appears in the first volume is relatively simple in its advice . |
| 30 | There were an awful lot of teething troubles in the first year or so , but it is working very well . |