Example sentences of "[Wh adv] the first [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative expression is evidently unc where the first factor is doubly degenerate ; the remainder are simply degenerate , giving as before a total degeneracy n . |
| 2 | Finally , and unsurprisingly , the attempted questioning of noun phrase and verb together while " leaving behind " the adjectival property will again produce an incoherent result , as in ( 27 ) where the first sentence is ungrammatical while the second is grammatical but associated with the wrong sort of answer : ( 27 ) what did the raiders do dead ? what should I do longer ? |
| 3 | The first is where the whole of the programme is provided by and taught at a major centre , as in the case of Bristol Polytechnic ; the second is where the first year is provided extra-murally at a number of associated centres , while the second year only is provided at the main centre , as the case of Portsmouth Polytechnic ; and the third is where both the first and second years are provided at the main and associate centres as at Plymouth Polytechnic and Cornwall Technical College , Camborne . |
| 4 | It remained to be seen whether these four armies could be united before Negus Mikael could blockade Ras Lul Seged and Fitaurari Gelli in Ankober and advance into the plain of Debra Berhan where the first battle was expected to take place . |
| 5 | Instances where the first air is not in the principal key are frequent in Bononcini and Scarlatti but are infrequent in cantatas composed by Frenchmen . |
| 6 | A second charge certificate will be issued to the husband , and the Land Registry will serve notice of the second charge on the first mortgagee ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s30 as amended by Law of Property ( Amendment ) Act 1926 , s5 ) where the first charge was made for securing further advances ( in addition to the original advance ) . |
| 7 | Everything goes smoothly , the syndicate collecting their financial reward , until one day a man appears in the gallery where the first exhibition was held claiming to be Hopkin . |
| 8 | That was where the first pill-box was . |
| 9 | In Cuba , where the first line was opened as early as 1837 , there were two main systems , British-owned in the west and American-owned in the east , by the end of the century . |
| 10 | Yes , there 's the relief of knowing you do n't have to worry about where the next question is coming from , but that 's simply replaced by the worry of where the first answer is coming from . |
| 11 | Up until 1950 , when the first road was built into the town , the area depended on air transport for the main services into and out of the township . |
| 12 | By eight o'clock , when the first pair was due to tee off , the sun was well up in a clear sky . |
| 13 | Although it is certainly tempting to use reformulations of this kind as evidence that [ VSQ ] and [ QSV ] are variants of an underlying variable , used by speakers in spoken discourse much like successive realizations of pit as [ p ? ] and [ p ? t ] when the first realization is not heard clearly , such evidence can not consistently be relied upon without further qualification to define a set of syntactic variants . |
| 14 | has n't any proper name like this cos these are private houses and estate are council houses but the built at top of was called the Old Plantation and the Old Plantation that 's when the first houses were built then of course when you er find the company first started which er Old Plantation is right opposite erm and when you came along past you then branched off to that 's all fields and you came down as far as and then you branched off to . |
| 15 | A third group were followers of Karadjordje , who fled in 1813 when the first revolt was crushed . |
| 16 | You should enter the name of each of your students when the first test is received and maintain an ongoing record of the following information in respect of each test : — |
| 17 | The work of cataloguing goes back to the early years of Italian unification in the late nineteenth century when the first photographs were taken of archaeological sites and of celebrated pictures and monuments . |
| 18 | The company says its experience this time through is different from when the first Snakes were delayed by shortfalls in the Texas Instruments Inc-produced floating point unit because it 's controlling all design and all fabrication . |
| 19 | Thermoluminescence has had a major impact on the antiquities market starting from about 1970 when the first tests were made in Oxford . |
| 20 | This company formed in 1889 began boring for water in 1890 when the first buildings were erected , and by 1892 most of the village had been connected to its mains . |
| 21 | I do n't know when the first visit was , but it must have been very recent , possibly within a few days of your , er , release . ’ |
| 22 | However , this process requires great care to get it right and not all printers are infallible — indeed , one printer I used was infallibly fallible and had to make three sets of cards when the first set were turned along the short axis and the second set were guillotined along the fold . |
| 23 | It has a strange history and to understand it it is necessary to turn the clock back eight thousand years , to the moment when the first cats were being domesticated in the Middle East . |
| 24 | In the morning we visit the Visitor Centre at Killiecrankie , site of the famous battle of 1689 when the first shots were fired in the Jacobite cause . |
| 25 | You will have to explain exactly why the first report was useless , why the particular expert was chosen and why you think that a new expert would come up with a case-winning report . |