Example sentences of "[num ord] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first idea is of a metaphorical and anthropomorphic kind , and the second and third also call out for analysis , if only for the reason that there are other non-causal pairs of things such that the first explains the second and the second depends on the first . |
| 2 | This dispirited the French at the moment their fortunes were improving , and their problems were exacerbated when Hastings added his third penalty and his second try in the first 10 minutes of the second half . |
| 3 | William , it was rumoured , could lead a man to the very spot where the Pacific Ocean was first seen by the first European explorer — a place in space and time that changed the historical progress of the world . |
| 4 | ‘ Andrew Impey has really come on in leaps and bounds since he first broke into the first team and Ian Holloway does a great job for us . ’ |
| 5 | When I lost my first serve in the first set , it threw me off a bit . |
| 6 | The mill is first mentioned in the first part of the 17th century and is thought to have been built around 1620 , although clearly much of the present building is of a later date . |
| 7 | Clemens was not content to borrow Pierre Sandrin 's very popular ‘ Doulce memoire ’ ( first published in the first book of Moderne 's Le Parangon des chansons ( Lyons , 1538 ) ) for the ‘ Sicut erat ’ of his first Magnificat Primi Toni ; he based every section of his Magnificat Octavi Toni on a chanson , actually drawing attention to their titles in his superius part : |
| 8 | In the course of twenty-five years of persistent pioneering work , he was responsible for novel design features , such as the duplex condenser ( 1924 ) , objective changer ( 1926 ) , and cone condenser ( 1930 ) , the last allowing for the first time ultraviolet , dark-ground photographs of viruses . |
| 9 | Of the three elements which make up an opera — the music , the words and the drama — the third arises from the first two realised by the performance of the singing actors , with the collaboration of the musicians and within the ambience of the set and the costumes . |