Example sentences of "to the first [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the fourth floor the visitor follows the Nazi rise to power all the way to the first intimations of total death . |
| 2 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 3 | Canadian firm Consensys Computer Inc , Markham , Ontario since 1985 , a vendor of intelligent input/output cards , is laying claim to the first shipments of USL Unix SVR4.2 Destiny shrink-wrapped binary operating systems for Intel iAPX-86 architectures . |
| 4 | This view led to the first restrictions on private members ' capacity to interrupt or hold up business whenever they liked — or whenever they could get the House to listen to them , for there was always considerable self-discipline . |
| 5 | But Hardin was writing long before the avalanche of discoveries that have revealed the fine structure of the human genetic material , spawned sensitive techniques of screening and most recently pre-implantation diagnosis , and led to the first attempts at gene therapy . |
| 6 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
| 7 | But once the West no longer needed Mr Ceausescu 's anti-Soviet services , his policy of deliberate isolation narrowed his options and led earlier this year to the first signs of internal party dissent . |
| 8 | But once the West no longer needed Mr Ceausescu 's anti-Soviet services , his policy of deliberate isolation narrowed his options and led earlier this year to the first signs of internal party dissent . |
| 9 | The garden 's main crops of apples and pears are gathered in late September and through to the first weeks of October . |
| 10 | After the first splendid burst , from The Time Machine to The First Men in the Moon , the quality deteriorates . |
| 11 | Accordingly I directed my researches to the first steps on the ladder , the branch and workshop . |
| 12 | To the first readers of Middlemarch , however , an elaboration of her plans might have seemed redundant , for if her ambitions were unusual in her own time , they were routine responsibilities by the 1870s . |
| 13 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 14 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 15 | The label ‘ Angry Young Men ’ , a term originally used to describe John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger , was extended to the first novels of Kingsley Amis , John Wain , and Colin Wilson . |
| 16 | Here was a film akin to the first pictures from the moon but with a difference . |
| 17 | And then irritation began to give way to the first tricklings of fear . |
| 18 | More than a tenth of the world 's soils have lost a substantial amount of their natural fertiliser in the past 45 years , according to the first results of a 15-year Global Assessment of Soil Degradation , funded by the UN Environment Programme . |
| 19 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 20 | Behind him , the horses moved to a trot , and he could feel the wariness giving way to disbelief , and the disbelief to the first stirrings of a dazed expectancy . |