Example sentences of "stress on the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The familiar stress on the first word in the sentence took her at once into the stuffy room in south London . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most familiar type of compound is the one which combines two nouns , and normally has the stress on the first element , as in : |
| 3 | The first morning we met you asked me to show you the way to the matriculation class , putting a very strong stress on the first syllable . |
| 4 | Languages in this category include French , with stress on the last syllable of a word ( or phrase ) ; Polish , with stress on the penultimate ( next to the last ) syllable ; and Finnish , with stress on the first syllable . |
| 5 | For example , when words which should have stress on the first syllable were said with stress on the second syllable , they were misinterpreted . |
| 6 | The information on a modern laser disc ( often called ‘ compact disc ’ , which is a pity , because the name is uninformative and also usually mispronounced with the stress on the first syllable ) is digital , stored in a series of tiny pits , each of which is either definitely there or definitely not there : there are no half measures . |