Example sentences of "first [noun sg] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first sentence in that passage is , of course , a gross exaggeration . |
| 2 | The first sentence in each pair contains a dead metaphor ; in the second sentence , the metaphor is revitalised by the substitution of a near-synonym or paraphrase . |
| 3 | The first sentence in this paragraph , for example , indicates that the discussion is to be about the change from one paragraph to another . |
| 4 | ROBERTO Duran fed a steady diet of left jabs to Tony Biglen to win his first fight in 18 months at Buffalo , New York . |
| 5 | He starts at a medieval Gothic window , a remnant of the first university in central Europe ( founded 1348 ) ; he pauses at the rebuilt Bethlehem Chapel , the site of where the Mass was first allowed in Czech , and Jan Hus preached before being burnt for heresy in 1413 ; he pays respects to the relics of the Jewish quarter with its ancient and crowded graveyard ; to cross the river he uses the Charles Bridge , lined with Baroque statues ( many between 1700 and 1720 ) , and climbs the hill to the Castle where art and architecture of all periods again further embellish the golden city of central Europe . |
| 6 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 7 | The council elections to be held in Chile in June will provide the first opportunity in 20 years for Chileans to vote against the ‘ eyes and ears ’ of the military dictatorship , according to Maria Antonieta Saa , the human rights activist and Chile 's only woman mayor . |
| 8 | And it was Francis who handed Eric Cantona his first opportunity in English football in February . |
| 9 | " To our knowledge , " the ornithologists say , " this is the first case in any vertebrate in which a drastic and recent change of behaviour has been documented and its genetic basis established . " |
| 10 | They were convinced that the Catholic Church needed a credible account of how God 's word acts in history , from the first formulation in human language through the gradual process of understanding , under changing historical conditions and as the Holy Spirit gives new insights . |
| 11 | In Hungary , the process industry looked to us for safety advice and provided our first contract in Eastern Europe . |
| 12 | The first election in that sense was held on May 30 , 1929 ( when Labour won 287 seats , Conservatives 261 , Liberals 59 , others 8 ) . |
| 13 | then erm the first payment in some occasions is a cheque direct to you from the TEC . |
| 14 | Lloyd rode his first winner in this country at Newmarket last Friday and is in England for seven weeks . |
| 15 | Whatever the government allows in due course by way of contingency arrangements which it intends to permit in the first instance in personal injury cases , it is unlikely to sweep away the need for Legal Aid . |
| 16 | The School is in the process of widening its range of options with an MSc/Diploma in Marketing ; it is also pursuing a proposal to introduce a modular MBA , in the first instance in Public Sector Management , but others are expected to follow . |
| 17 | It is a history of morale boosting , of public money being made available from various sources from 1918 onwards : to enrich the life in remote villages in danger of being deserted by the exodus after the First World War ; to occupy the unemployed in the 1930s on Tyneside ; to counter the dreary effect of the ‘ blackout ’ during the Second World War ( this was the first instance in this country of government subsidy ) ; to bring a sense of wellbeing to the community during the difficult years following the war ; and in particular , to occupy bored young people . |
| 18 | After the club 's liquidation crisis in 1986 , he shared in the fairytale rise from the Third Division to the First Division in successive seasons . |
| 19 | However , your first resort in any query concerning the verification process should be your systems verifier . |
| 20 | CHATEAU DE REMAISNIL , DOULLENS , FRANCE , THE ASHLEY 'S FIRST EXPERIMENT IN GRAND LIVING . |
| 21 | Northumberland Buildings ( c .1788 ) was his first experiment in this style . |
| 22 | In the first experiment in this series , Gibson and Fawcett used ethylene and benzaldehyde . |
| 23 | In spite of our scepticism , to our relief the first boat in that area to be investigated proved to match the photograph and we slunk off into the night , doused our lights , and prepared to follow her at a safe distance . |
| 24 | One thousand savages fell in that struggle , which is called today the Battle of Sloop 's Bight , after the first engagement in that cove , where a Christian ship , the Rebecca , was fired in a daring sortie . |
| 25 | The first term in each equation represents a wave travelling in the positive x direction and the second term a similar wave travelling in the negative x direction . |
| 26 | ( 5.19 ) with respect to time gives the variation of rotor position with time : For a phase current the flux linked with phase A is simply the product of current and inductance : and the rate of change of flux linkages with time is : The first term in this expression is the voltage induced in the phase windings by the rotor motion and the second term arises from the changing current in the phase inductance — Substituting from Eqns — ( 5.17 ) and ( 5.20 ) gives the motional voltage in terms of the phase inductance : Since the phase current , is produced by a switched voltage supply it is non-sinusoidal and therefore , from Eqn . |
| 27 | 2-1 ; Portsmouth 's first defeat in 8 games . |
| 28 | It was Millwall 's first defeat in eight games and Crosby said : ‘ It has been a hard time . |
| 29 | Warrington Town bid to bounce back after their first defeat in eight games in midweek when they take on Alfreton Town in the HFS First Division at Cantilever Park . |
| 30 | United would have sent Rangers into tomorrow night 's match at Motherwell on the rebound from their first defeat in 37 matches , too , had it not been for the exceptional goalkeeping of Andy Goram once again . |