Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the first chapter [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we mentioned in the first chapter of this book , egalitarian marriage is now widely promoted as an ideal , but recent research indicates that there is a wide gulf between what is said to be happening in terms of sharing in marriage and what actually happens . |
| 2 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
| 3 | A typical theoretical framework is that proposed in the first chapter of Bell ( 1991 ) , discussing the methodological requirements of translation . |
| 4 | The sophistication and range of this style of cooking grew , as Sheila describes in the first chapter of her book . |
| 5 | A distinction was made in the first chapter between three types of risk , objective , estimated and subjective , and the assumption was made that subjective risk is closely related to the concept of arousal as it has been used in much memory research . |
| 6 | Though I do not desire to stray into fields where others here are expert , I must point out that according to the first chapter of Genesis the world was so constituted from the beginning that good and evil were created together in it , and also that the knowledge of them existed before mankind . |
| 7 | Thus Thomas Erastus ( 1523–83 ) appealed to the first chapter of Genesis to demonstrate that God had created plants before planets . |
| 8 | As we stated in the first chapter of this book , the developmental task of marriage is to convert the unconscious choice of partner into a conscious commitment . |
| 9 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 10 | The kind of balance we had to achieve is well summarised in the first chapter of the Kingman Report : |
| 11 | However , the reformulation appeals to theoretical notions which the authors discuss in the first chapter of the book , and it is unlikely that what was said about mutual cognitive environments in the first chapter is accessible for use for the interpretation of a passage about style in the final chapter . |
| 12 | Just by glancing at the first chapter of the book you feel a sort of ‘ zing ’ that brings them together , so much so that one could never rate one higher than the other . |