Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | My discussion of the first two questions will revolve around Poulantzas ' notion of ‘ pertinent effects ’ . |
| 2 | MALONE opened their defence of the First Trust Senior Cup with an easy victory over North at Ormeau yesterday . |
| 3 | Although REM sleep time was reduced , its proportion of the first 5.5 hours sleep was increased in the 5.5-hour sleep condition . |
| 4 | The delegates exchanged views on their experiences of the first six months of the pilot and considered the problems of offering general SVQs in a remote area , school-college partnerships , and the additional assessment , and produced a checklist of advice for new piloting centres ( see opposite ) . |
| 5 | Univel Inc was down taking pictures for its scrapbook of the first editions of UnixWare coming off the production line last week . |
| 6 | At the sixth meeting members agreed that ‘ as a result of their examination of the first six courses they had established certain standards for assessment and were now able to make an objective judgment upon the courses submitted ’ . |
| 7 | BP is to spend $340 million in developing its share of the first phase of the Mars oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 8 | They gave away very little about themselves in their choice of the first Christmas presents . |
| 9 | A dollop of cranberry sauce has been the traditional accompaniment to turkey since the Pilgrim Fathers ate what they called crane berries ( the flowers resemble cranes ) — probably in the form of a sauce — with turkey at the Thanksgiving feast , celebrating their survival of the first winter spent in America . |
| 10 | It is expressed in their myth of the first human child , or " adam " . |
| 11 | In his speeches of the first two books Satan shows a tremendous vigour , a responsibility to his followers , an impenetrable spirit , heroic determination never to be weak and inactive and an attractive charm and sophistication in his poetic and commanding words . |
| 12 | His other books included his Life of the first Marquess of Ripon ( 1921 ) . |
| 13 | His invention of the first computer in the world to possess a memory has already been mentioned , but his work also included radar during the War and new types of electric motor later . |
| 14 | His recording of the First Piano Concerto is sparklingly assured — crisply articulated but with enough sensitivity to convey the inevitable bitter-sweet character of the slow movement . |
| 15 | Why , then , could Tolkien not finish his legends of the First Age off ? |
| 16 | For example , Jan Watt bases his analysis of the first paragraph of Henry James 's The Ambassadors on five features : ( 1 ) non-transitive verbs ; ( 2 ) abstract nouns ; ( 3 ) the word that ; ( 4 ) elegant variation ; ( 5 ) delayed specification of referents . |
| 17 | ( One of the originators once told me that his memory of the first few weeks of the organization was of people literally waiting in turn to answer the phone every time it rang . ) |
| 18 | His reading of the First Symphony is second to none and he includes the first movement exposition repeat . |
| 19 | His son of the first marriage , Thomas Bowen Kitchin , apprenticed to his father in 1754 and also hydrographer to the king , had already inherited the stock-in-trade . |
| 20 | In his letters to Gundobad , in some of his sermons , and in his versification of the first two books of the Bible , he showed himself to be a reasonable theologian . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , our heroes of the first encounter have dashed across to challenge another . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , a number of factors can be briefly identified which explain why it makes sense to stop our account of the first age of party in 1715 . |