Example sentences of "the very first [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the very first visitors to Japan assumed , from the local socks , that the Japanese had only two toes . |
| 2 | The term mission is a precise one , especially in the light of a discursive shift which is evident from the very first lines of the chapter on adult education which follows : |
| 3 | To stand against the old order , the new national States would have to be strong — ‘ The very first conditions of national existence ( are ) large numbers and compactness of territory , ’ along with resources , ability and a favourable social organization . |
| 4 | Brian was one of the very first members of the ACET team and will be greatly missed . |
| 5 | One of the very first actors to be labelled a hellraiser was Peter Finch . |
| 6 | [ more calmly ] I am now convinced that nothing but religious considerations and a resolution to watch over the very first appearances of evil can be of sufficient weight to keep steady to his good purpose a vain young man . |
| 7 | Wooden models , primitive in design as the very first toys of all , of two men hammering in turn on an anvil . |
| 8 | He arrived in England in 1963 when aged 16 and almost immediately immersed himself in sport ; as such he was one of the very first sportsmen to energy from the second generation West Indian immigrants . |
| 9 | Table 4.1 provides summary details of the very first destinations of students at the end of their courses . |
| 10 | If a ship was intended for patrolling the sea , it had to be equipped to take part in action against the enemy : the building of castles , fore and aft , and , in the fifteenth century , the possible installation of cannon on the deck ( guns were placed below decks , to fire out of ‘ ports ’ , only in the very first years of the sixteenth century ) had to be carried out . |
| 11 | Similarly a young Russian diplomat , serving in a junior post in London during the very first years of the twentieth century , found that the embassy possessed only one typewriter , and that so old that it was difficult to use . |
| 12 | After all , from the very first weeks after the first seizure of power by a Communist Party back in November 1917 , special rations , housing and other privileges had been the order of the day . |
| 13 | Our Lady was given an important place from the very first phases of the movement . |
| 14 | The very first indications of it are to be seen in the helplessness of a baby . |
| 15 | One of the very first examples of Gothic architecture was the Abbey Church of S. Denis , built in the decade from 1135 by the Abbé Suger . |
| 16 | Nevertheless Bernier was cautiously appreciative of most aspects of India and was one of the very first apologists for Mughal culture against the growing arrogance of its European visitors . |
| 17 | First of all , Marx 's theory of historical materialism was one of the very first theories of society and change to be formulated which provided a historical overview and , at the same time , attempted to mesh together the workings of social , economic and political phenomena . |