Example sentences of "and [v-ing] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For two neighbouring points on the ( p , T ) diagram this means Expanding by Taylor 's theorem about and using the first equality gives where are changes in v and S respectively at the transition . |
| 2 | There can be little doubt that these are Naxian works , deeply influenced by the East Greek style and transmitting the first impression of that style to Athens where soon , as everywhere , its influence was to become pervasive . |
| 3 | Not that Andrew Orkney will dwell too much this week on leading them into the Canal Turn and over the final six flights and up the long finish and on to the post and becoming the first optician to win and riding into history . |
| 4 | De Freitas and Small were extremely economical and there were only nine balls left when the total was passed , but with Richards on song — and becoming the first man to score 5,000 runs in one-day internationals — only four wickets went down . |
| 5 | The priest had to act as both choirmaster and precentor , setting the pitch and intoning the first line of each hymn , as well as training his people to sing the Merbecke setting which Father Jackson had adapted for Burmese use . |
| 6 | Bacon is an ‘ empiricist ’ , not because of some theory which shows that sensory experiential knowledge is superior , or prior , to knowledge acquired by reason , but because of methodological concern for advancing and improving the first kind of knowledge . |
| 7 | I confirm that you will be writing extending an invitation to join the group and calling the first meeting for 2p.m. on Tuesday 27th April at the university . |
| 8 | Listening and speaking ; Lado ( 1964 ) explains that this approach to language teaching considers listening and speaking the first task in language learning , followed by the mastering of the reading and writing skills . |
| 9 | Experience is the name of the game , and surviving the first fight is the hard part . |
| 10 | A drawing attributed to the Persian artist Dust Muhammad , dating from the mid-sixteenth century and depicting the first scene from the tale of ‘ Haftvad and the Worm ’ , bears the estimate of £25–35,000 ( $45–60,000 ) . |
| 11 | If you are honest , approaching with an open mind and saying the first thing that comes into your head , you will gradually find you are able to contribute real information and will gain confidence in your abilities . |
| 12 | She was a nurse at a hospital on the other side of the village , and Killion had met her the previous evening by simply walking into the hospital and asking the first girl he saw if she would come out with him . |
| 13 | One is , if we make a certain common assumption , and taking the first example , that if the switch had not been flipped , then the windscreen wipers would not have started to work . |
| 14 | Stirling himself spent a lot of time in Cairo wheedling supplies and planning the first operation . |
| 15 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |