Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision of the BBC to change the format , in effect dropping the first half of the old programme , is not surprising . |
| 2 | Babies are conceived for a variety of reasons apart from basic urges — some over a wayward partner who shows signs of straying from the fold ; in competition with a sister who has recently conceived or in determination to produce the first grandchild . |
| 3 | The ploy worked and from its modest slot around 4.30 on Sunday afternoons Pathfinders in Space attracted the first real family audience for a science fiction serial . |
| 4 | ‘ In promotion campaigns the first six games and the last six games are vitally important . |
| 5 | So early oxygen levels would have been periodically depressed , in order to allow the first photosynthesizers to carry on evolving . |
| 6 | The trip to Milan was made in order to write the first opera , Lucio Silla , for the 1772–1773 carnival season there . |
| 7 | Mozart 's father and sister travelled to Munich early in 1781 in order to hear the first performance of the opera on 29 January . |
| 8 | In order to solve the first of these differences the two kings signed the Treaty of Andelot in 587 , but Guntram remained suspicious of his nephew . |
| 9 | A knot is required in order to make the first fastening . |
| 10 | In order to achieve the First Five-Year Plan , figures worked out at that moment estimated that the manpower necessary for attaining the production goals at 4.1 million workers and employees ( i.e. an increase of 1 million or 33% ) . |
| 11 | In order to achieve the first objective the drafter will seek to define his/her client 's obligations , restrict the circumstances in which the client will be in breach of contract , and restrict , limit or even exclude liabilities which would otherwise otherwise . |
| 12 | There are no simple right or wrong answers to our questions , but in order to meet the first objective ( to teach problem definition skills ) , we must adopt a particular stance or ‘ model of practice ’ which enables precise analysis of situations . |
| 13 | When the first draft of this review had been completed , a protein plaque or two moved in the reviewer 's senile brain and he remembered that he had in fact reviewed the first edition for this journal . |
| 14 | We arrived just in time to see the first members of the brass band — a trombone and a tuba — come round the corner of the lane . |