Example sentences of "of the first [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In hexagonal close packing , a second layer sits on top of the first layer so that each sphere in the second layer is in contact with three spheres of the first layer ( see figure 3.22 ) . |
| 2 | Must be one of the first ones out . |
| 3 | NSAID intake was noted as either intermittent or regular at the time of the first endoscopy only . |
| 4 | One of the first visitors today was the Princess Royal in her role as president of the Royal Yachting Association.Tony Maycock reports |
| 5 | Her moment came at the end of the first course when , without any apparent signal , the parlourmaid came back into the room . |
| 6 | The first such charts should be done early — at the end of the first day even , and then added to and/or modified day by day as more data is obtained . |
| 7 | The good feelings of the first day soon disappeared in the second round though . |
| 8 | They will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me the name of any one of the leading actors in the original 1939 film . |
| 9 | Senders of the first postcards out of the hat next Friday telling me her husband 's first name in the series , will take the prizes . |
| 10 | The prizes will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat revealing who played Superman and who played Thelma and Louise . |
| 11 | Senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me who had a hit record with Watching The Detectives will take the prizes . |
| 12 | They will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me which detective was Basil Rathbone 's most famous screen character . |
| 13 | We have five £75 copies to give away and they will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat next Friday telling me on which American TV show Wayne 's World had its beginnings . |
| 14 | Prizes will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me either of the films for which Maggie won an Oscar . |
| 15 | We have ten volumes of those adventures to give away in our latest competition and they will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me the surname of the puppet-master producer behind the so-called ‘ Supermarionation ’ series . |
| 16 | If meaning can be derived by participants in the communication then there must be a significatory system operating and it can be analysed at the level of the first order regardless of what the meaning is . |
| 17 | Place the second panel , right side down , on to the edge of the first panel so that their two cut edges line up . |
| 18 | Leeds United3 , Chelsea0 LEEDS returned to the top of the First Division yesterday with a sudden scoring explosion that masked a deeply unconvincing performance . |
| 19 | Numerous product initiatives were undertaken in 1992 , notably the creation of new products in Louis Vuitton luggage , the launch of new cosmetics and the relaunch of the first perfume ever created by Christian Dior — ‘ Miss Dior . ’ |
| 20 | That is , the relevance of the reformulation lies in the way it constrains the interpretation of the first segment so that it matches Carver 's own initial impressions . |
| 21 | The modern meaning of the first word usually relates to apparitions or spectres of dead people . |
| 22 | In Judaism , of course , the prevailing monotheism of the first century A.D. precluded any deification of the Messiah . |
| 23 | At Tivoli are the remains of a number of temples , among which are the Temple of Vesta c. 27 B.C. , Corinthian in design and the Temple of the Sybils of the first century B.C. The latter has a circular cella and a peristyle of 18 columns , 24 feet high . |
| 24 | A series of many similar observations can be made for a number of different tribes and issues , and cumulatively these give us a very clear picture of the extensive series of Celtic silver coinages of the first century BC . |
| 25 | The earliest surviving portraits are almost exclusively of the first century BC . |
| 26 | Even the city of Athens , not yet recovered from the devastations of the first century BC , had begun to flourish . |
| 27 | Designed and built by the astronomer Andronicus Kyrrhestes of Macedonia in the second quarter of the first century BC , with a wind vane and complicated sundials on each of its eight walls , its most interesting feature is a reservoir in a smaller building that stood next to its south side . |
| 28 | Viticulture was then unknown in its cold northern reaches : according to the observations of Dioderus Siculus , a Greek historian of the first century BC , ‘ the frigid climate of the uncultivated North forbade production of either wine or oil ’ . |
| 29 | It will inevitably happen for some that Housman 's Horace is not the reader 's Horace , and that readers will grumble and go in search of more and later Englishings — for it seems we must " English " this poet again and again if we are to keep up with him where he stands still , at the end of the first century BC . |
| 30 | ( First Edition ) DRAMATIC evidence of the First Century AD Jewish revolt against Rome , which led up to the famous siege and mass suicide of Masada , has been unearthed by Israeli archaeologists in the desert to the east of Jerusalem . |