Example sentences of "in [pron] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One case was previously published and the second was in a patient in whom the first polyp was discovered and biopsied in December 1986 . |
| 2 | Enteroscopy has identified small intestinal lesions in a further 30–40% of patients in whom the first line investigations were normal . |
| 3 | The warming phase was interrupted by a cold snap in which the first flip from warm to cool took only three years . |
| 4 | Of course a chronological narrative can be constructed , but the history of physics in fact has its own temporality in which the first event after Aristotle was Newton , the second was Einstein , the third black holes , etc . |
| 5 | Non-finite clauses are those whose predicator element consists of a non-finite verbal group , such as those in which the first verb in sequence is in one of the following forms . |
| 6 | These are the Fieldnames but in many spreadsheets the cells in which the first row of data is entered are just as important , if not more so than the names themselves . |
| 7 | A good example is provided by his comment on the way in which the first editor of the journal Nature allowed his personal opinions to intrude upon its pages : ‘ [ Norman ] Lockyer sometimes forgets that he is only the editor and not the author of Nature . ’ |
| 8 | Yet the circumstances in which ( 2d ) might be uttered are likely to be quite different from those in which the first sentence of extract ( I ) was uttered . |
| 9 | Compounds in which the first element is a number in some form also tend to have final stress : |
| 10 | There are three essentially different ways in which the first step can be influenced . |
| 11 | The deputy judge had before him a probate action in which the first defendant , Mr. Clive Smith , sought to obtain probate of a manuscript document bearing the date 18 April 1986 , and said to be a testamentary disposition made by the deceased , Mr. Percy Winterbone . |
| 12 | He was a non-active member of the movement , but an analysis of his heavily autobiographical books and novels , in which the first World War is of crucial significance , throws considerable light on the origins of fascism . |
| 13 | There is always a first sentence in which the first phrase demands continuity , the second then providing repose . |
| 14 | It is also illustrated in the ‘ doubling ’ technique of using double exposures in which the first shot is read , not photographically , but as a signifying element whose referent is the second shot ( Krauss 1985b , p. 109 ) . |
| 15 | It is also illustrated in the ‘ doubling ’ technique of using exposures in which the first shot is read , not photographically , but as a signifying element whose referent is the second shot . |
| 16 | This is a limited virial expansion in which the first term is the classical va n't Hoff expression for the osmotic pressure at infinite dilution . |