School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

I had had difficulties from the very first day.

From the very first he regarded himself as Mr. Hearst's disciple, defender, and afterward his prime minister, self-ordained.

We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.

Our first necessity, at the very outset of war, is post-attack reconnaissance.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.

The data for the first day indicate a meteor stream with a very high concentration of particles and may have led to the high estimates of micrometeorite flux.

When 1 ml of conjugate was passed through a column ( Af ), the first and second milliliter fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments, and very little in others.

In their very first collages, Braque and Picasso draw or paint over and on the affixed paper or cloth, so that certain of the principal features of their subjects as depicted seem to thrust out into real, bas-relief space -- or to be about to do so -- while the rest of the subject remains imbedded in, or flat upon, the surface.

At the very first, then, Brumidi was required, by the classically pyramidal shape of his central group, to fill in the triangular space above the seated girl on Liberty's right, before starting on the allegorical figures themselves.

It cannot be said that our very first day in the Soviet Union turned out to be an ordinary one.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

It is obvious that the careful choice of photocathode which maximizes Af for a given input E ( in the case of the second stage, for the first phosphor screen emission ) is very important.

Two days later, some 30 of them had struck at a convoy off Bougie, sinking a troopship -- and it had been that very night that the Me-210 had made its first appearance.

In the South, after the first year of the war, paper and ink were very poor.

Another school frowns on such a shortcut, and insists that after leaving the bin an old red wine should first stand on end for several days to allow the sediment to roll to the very bottom, after which the bottle may be gently eased to a tilted position on its side in the cradle.

From the lioness' point of view, this strange creature on the back of another creature, lashing out with its long thin paw, very likely appeared as something she could not at first cope with.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

Katya Roslev, who would be Katharine Ross so very soon now, rang up her first sale of the day and counted back the change.

On that first day, Blanche literally thought she was going to die, or, at the very least, go out of her mind.

Meanwhile, it was learned the State Highway Department is very near being ready to issue the first $30 million worth of highway reconstruction bonds.

-- those were His very first creative words -- He began the world with light -- this God still gives light to a world which man has plunged into darkness.

One of the very best is only now published in this country, five years after its first publication in England.

In their very first speeches it was clear that Shakespeare, like a Nostradamus, had foreseen this moment.

" At the end, he succeeded in obtaining from Theodosius a promise that the sentence should be completely revoked, with the very natural consequence that thereafter the prospect of immunity thus afforded occasioned spoliations of synagogues all over the Empire.

In the words of Charles Plummer, one of the best-known editors of the Historia Ecclesiastica, Bede's Latin is " clear and limpid ... it is very seldom that we have to pause to think of the meaning of a sentence ... Alcuin rightly praises Bede for his unpretending style.

The opening sentence of the book created a classic Spanish cliché with the phrase (" whose name I do not wish to recall "): (" In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall, there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound.

This is often not an issue for people without agrammatic aphasias, but many aphasics rely very heavily on word order to understand roles that words play within the sentence.

Our knowledge, however, is too fragmentary to pass a very accurate sentence.

In fact, being sent to French Guiana as a relégué was a life sentence, and usually a short life sentence, as most of the relégués died very quickly from disease and malnutrition.

By way of contrast to Hobbes's multiplicity of laws, Cumberland states in the very first sentence of his Treatise of the Laws of Nature that " all the Laws of Nature are reduc'd to that one, of Benevolence toward all Rationals.

It was in this position that he "... compiled a Forma Dicendi, a collection of official papal acts, and also completed a codification of the cursus, a compilation of the very stringent rules governing the euphonious arrangements of sentence endings and phrasing in papal acts.

In a tazir crime, the penalty would be usually a prison sentence, corporal punishment in some countries, or an execution in a very serious case.

Modern preambles are sometimes structured as a single very long sentence formatted into multiple paragraphs for readability, in which each of the paragraphs begins with a verb ( desiring, recognizing, having, and so on ).

A new conflict was inevitable from the very fact that Henry considered the sentence of deposition repealed along with that of excommunication.

The level of naturalness of these systems can be very high because the variety of sentence types is limited, and they closely match the prosody and intonation of the original recordings.

The sentence was supposedly uttered by a Bohemian settler, Bogwal (" Bogwalus Boemus "), a subject of Bolesław the Tall, expressing compassion for his own wife who " very often stood grinding by the quern-stone.

For example, my very good friend Peter is a phrase that can be used in a sentence as if it were a noun, and is therefore called a noun phrase.

A White House statement summarized the administration's view of Debs ' case: " There is no question of his guilt .... He was by no means as rabid and outspoken in his expressions as many others, and but for his prominence and the resulting far-reaching effect of his words, very probably might not have received the sentence he did.

: It is very important to recognize punctuation correctly in order to distinguish between for example a full stop at the end of a sentence and a full stop in an abbreviation.

Although very little is known about the actual debate ( except for Cicero's argument, which has probably been altered from its original ), the Senate majority probably opposed the death sentence for various reasons, one of which was the nobility of the accused.

* Gell / gelle or wa, wat or wahr (" true " or " correct ") or nä / ne / net ( from nicht, " not ") are used in ( very ) colloquial German to express a positive interrogative at the end of a sentence, much as Eh is used in Canadian English.

The deep structure represented the core semantic relations of a sentence, and was mapped on to the surface structure ( which followed the phonological form of the sentence very closely ) via transformations.

Amphibology or amphiboly ( from the Greek ἀμφιβολία, amphibolia ) is an ambiguous grammatical structure in a sentence or within a very short discourse, such as two sentences.

For example, one of the very first entries in Skeat is for the letter A, which begins: "...( 1 ) adown ; ( 2 ) afoot ; ( 3 ) along ; ( 4 ) arise ; ( 5 ) achieve ; ( 6 ) avert ; ( 7 ) amend ; ( 8 ) alas ; ( 9 ) abyss ..." Further in the entry, Skeat writes: " These prefixes are discussed at greater length under the headings Of, On, Along, Arise ... Alas, Aware, Avast ..." It seems likely that these strings of words prompted Joyce to finish the Wake with a sentence fragment that included the words: "... a way a lone a last a loved a long ..."

Brzezinski modeled the wording of the Carter Doctrine on the Truman Doctrine, and insisted that the sentence be included in the speech " to make it very clear that the Soviets should stay away from the Persian Gulf.

" He wrote, " The Illinois Central not only meant very good business whilst it was built and whilst new cities were built around it and land was cultivated, but it spelled the death sentence for the agriculture of the West.