Example sentences of "first [noun sg] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historian 's main points or ideas can usually be discovered in ( a ) the first and/or last paragraph of a chapter or section , ( b ) the first sentence of a paragraph — this is the key point for the paragraph and it is usually expressed in one sentence . |
| 2 | The first hope of a breakthrough in the saga emerged during a meeting between Mr Shevardnadze and Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the West German Foreign Minister , at the United Nations . |
| 3 | This was the first case of a person brought to trial under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act . |
| 4 | The first case of a patient with familial adenomatous polyposis ( FAP ) who developed pancreatitis after routine screening and biopsy of the anpulla of Vater is described . |
| 5 | We report the first case of a patient with FAP who developed pancreatitis after routine screening and biopsy of the ampulla of Vater . |
| 6 | Stretch , making the first defence of a title he won more than a year ago when he out-pointed Gary Cooper , caught Wormald with a perfectly timed right hook to the chin . |
| 7 | Following his ill-fated collaboration with Crystal Gayle on the soundtrack to Coppola 's One From the Heart , Waits released the brilliantly eclectic Swordfishtrombones , the first instalment of a trilogy that would continue through 1985 's Rain Dogs and conclude with 1987 's Franks Wild Years . |
| 8 | Sponsored by the Friends of Covent Garden , ‘ The Fiery Angel ’ is a co-production with the Kirov Opera of St Petersburg and the first instalment of a collaboration between the two theatres which will be continued in 1995 with Prokofiev 's ‘ War and Peace ’ . |
| 9 | The first part of a consignment of UN-purchased fuel authorized under the recently concluded memorandum of understanding [ see p. 39163 ] reached Kurdish areas in the north on Nov. 18 . |
| 10 | Our reading today is the first part of a poem written by Minnie Louise Haskins who died in 1957 . |
| 11 | Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow appeared in Japanese in 1969 , the first part of a trilogy . |
| 12 | In these the first part of a turn is in London English and the last part in Creole . |
| 13 | Looking around , Ashenden noted yet again the readily observable fact that ( doubtless like animals ) tourists from very early on staked out their territories : find them sitting at one particular table for dinner and almost invariably , for breakfast next morning , you would find them sitting at the very same table ; allocate them to particular seats in a coach on the first part of a journey , and as if by some proprietorial right the passengers would thereafter usually veer towards those selfsame seats . |
| 14 | The Sun agreements were the first part of a strategy devised by Adobe 's four month-old Display Products Group to take the Unix field by storm — and there remains the Interactive Systems Unix side of Sun 's business to be mopped up , Ybarra reminds us . |
| 15 | Today 's reading is the first part of a book called Z for Zachariah by Robert O'Brien . |
| 16 | Because experience of a child death is casually associated with non-use of contraceptives , where infant mortality is high among first births , as in all but the Western Hemisphere region and in developed countries , the first experience of a child death tends to occur when the woman is young , and she is then less likely ever to use contraceptives . |
| 17 | Charlie 's first experience of a razor was in near-freezing water . |
| 18 | It was Patrick 's first experience of a J-gate . |
| 19 | The axeman wore the first beard of a boy and had big ears that stuck through his hair . |
| 20 | Leeds ( Assistant-Keeper at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford from 1908 ) produced the first typology of a form of Early Anglo-Saxon metalwork , a brooch type ( 1912 ) . |
| 21 | The research by Yorkshire TV paid off last Sunday when 18 million tuned in for the first episode of A Touch of Frost . |
| 22 | The initial icosahedron requires a void , representing the first term of a GP , at its centre . |
| 23 | In 1922 Hannington received his first term of a month 's imprisonment for uttering seditious words . |
| 24 | Lois Forer , a judge and former assistant Pennsylvania attorney general , expects that the decision on the Barnes tour will encourage donors to include ‘ gift over ’ provisions in their bequests , allowing gifts to pass to a second institution if the first recipient of a donation violates the restrictions placed on gifts . |
| 25 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 26 | His citation was for his work on carbohydrates and on the synthesis of vitamin C. This , the first synthesis of a vitamin , he achieved in 1933 , in collaboration with E. L. Hirst . |
| 27 | It is always dangerous when the hon. Gentleman reads only the first half of a sentence . |
| 28 | In addition , there was a strong tendency for the remaining pauses to occur in the first half of a clause rather than the second half . |
| 29 | This is called a ‘ bottom turn ’ and closely resembles the first half of a carve gybe . |
| 30 | The Girls had the third spot in the first half of a bill shared with George Robey , Harry Lauder , Little Titch and Anna Pavlova . |