Example sentences of "of the first [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A significant difference between Phaistos and Knossos arises because virtually the whole of the first temple at Phaistos was replaced when the site was redeveloped after the 1700 BC destruction : only the Central Court remained . |
| 2 | Bryan Robson 's injury , a legacy of previous combat , was diagnosed when he had to be substituted 20 minutes from the end of the first leg at Portsmouth only 13 days ago . |
| 3 | The uncertainty of the fat child or the onset of puberty which can make swimming baths one of the first circles of hell for the adolescent , so vividly evoked by Kathryn Ensall 's ‘ Girls in Line at the Swimming Baths ’ ( 1988 ) , or the terrifying prospect of the first day at school captured by Shanti Panchal are all expressions of modern sensibility and above all , of childhood and adolescent anxiety , constructed out of an acute embarrassment with themselves and their situation . |
| 4 | The US Department of Energy paid £3.5 million of the £11 million total cost of the first installation at the Dragon Products Company cement plant in Maine , under the Innovative Clean Coal technology Scheme . |
| 5 | The nerves on the first night at Taunton had been bad ; so had the understudy nerves of the first night at the Variety ; but they were nothing to the sheer blind terror that attended Charles Paris as he waited to go on stage in the role in which Michael Banks 's career had been so tragically cut short the night before . |
| 6 | Irrigation was improved , including the building in 1902 of the first dam at Aswan , while the economy was pushed ever more towards the monocrop culture of cotton , primarily for export to British textile mills in Lancashire . |
| 7 | It is rather that the whole point of a national curriculum will be lost if it can not be assumed that children at 11 will be ready for whatever is the generally agreed content of the first year at secondary school . |
| 8 | Place the cursor on the first character of the first word at the top of the column to be moved ( eg the G of GENERAL in Task 23 below ) |
| 9 | There is no evidence that all jurists early practised toleration of defective trusts , for we have seen that up to the end of the first century at least there was opposition to allowing them validity . |
| 10 | Fifty years after the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove , JD Lang wrote of Australia 's Aborigines : ‘ ( we have ) despoiled them of their land , and given them in exchange European vice and European disease in every foul and fatal form … ’ |
| 11 | Lane sprang out of the first car at his approach . |
| 12 | A retrospective analysis was undertaken of the results of the first attempt at in vitro fertilization ( IVF ) treatment to evaluate the effects of cigarette smoking by either partner in events preceding and during oocyte recovery , fertilization , implantation , and early pregnancy in a group of patients undergoing IVF-ET . |
| 13 | Earlier , it was stated that the two circles cross each other in the shape of the ‘ Vesica Piscis ’ of sacred geometry , but that for this to be perfect , the radius of the second circle is marked out from the perimeter of the first circle at the same radius . |
| 14 | To an extent , therefore , and inevitably , the presence of the names of the First Empire at the Court of the Second seemed to underline the fact of continuity between the two regimes . |
| 15 | The winners of the first Festival at Brighton were the Paisley Branch . |
| 16 | The book opens with a narrative passage evoking first the scenes in a typical day early this century , leading up to the arrival of the first train at Craven Arms , and then a poignant shorter evocation of the way things looked shortly after the closure . |