Example sentences of "[prep] a first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was recently fined £500 by the European Tour when , after a first round of 74 in his defence of the Mediterranean Open , he refused to come in for the requested press interview . |
| 2 | By that time Woosnam had advanced from his overnight position of three under par , after a first round of 69 , to seven under , one behind Craig Parry , of Australia . |
| 3 | Grady slipped with a 75 but made the cut , as did Roger Davis with a splendid 68 to retrieve his position after a first round of 77 . |
| 4 | All sorts of people go to see performers after a first night . |
| 5 | If the adventurers return to this room after a first encounter , the puppets ‘ remember ’ the events of the first meeting and will make suitably sarcastic comments . |
| 6 | America 's faltering recovery continued with a 6.7% rise in housing starts in April over the previous month , lower than had been expected after a first quarter in which housing starts had been curbed by bad weather . |
| 7 | The advice offered in Chapter 8 on more effective reading was that you should only begin to take notes after a first reading — when you 've grasped the structure and got the gist of the topic being dealt with . |
| 8 | Frankie had nothing much more to offer till they signed to Zang Tumb Tuum ( ZTT ) the label ( named after a First World War futurist magazine ) formed by New Musical Express ( NME ) theorist , Paul Morley , and Dollar/ABC/Malcolm McLaren producer , Trevor Horn . |
| 9 | I do not know who told her that the doctors had refused to meet her and I heard nothing from her until after a first meeting when what came to be known as the Goodman Plan was presented to the government and the doctors had convened at Downing Street . |
| 10 | He was an Apostle and a prizeman , though his zeal as president of the Union condemned him to a second in part ii ( 1904 ) after a first in part i ( 1902 ) of the classical tripos . |
| 11 | However , they were also quite pricey , as they could well afford to be , so I designed my own after a first disaster with one of the Ken Smith ledger rods . |
| 12 | Mark Roe was altogether more scathing about the problem after a first round of 85 which left him in last place in the field . |
| 13 | After a first session on June 8 near Brno , Klaus declared that the two sides ' views were " fundamentally different " . |
| 14 | After a first phase of innovation competition to establish liquid niches in interest rate and share index markets , there is likely to be a phase of consolidation and rationalisation . |
| 15 | Kim Campbell , 46 , was ahead after a first ballot , but she fell short of a majority needed to succeed Brian Mulroney as the country 's next prime minister . |
| 16 | McLure , the Spons-A-Tee Northern Amateur Masters Champion picked up valuable points towards retaining the title thanks to his win at Seaton Carew , but he looked out of it after a first round 79 , despite a birdie at the 18th . |
| 17 | He may be taken as an example of a first type of critic , the advocate . |
| 18 | Whether the parents planted a cedar tree in honour of the occasion , as another custom dictated ( girls only got a pine tree ! ) we do not know , but we can rest assured that the salutation-prayer was made with particular relish for this first son of a first son : ‘ A boy is born into the world ; a blessing has come into the world . ’ |
| 19 | THE ACQUISITIVE advertising and marketing company WCRS Group more than doubled pre-tax profits to £38.1m for the year to June , largely the result of a first full year contribution from its French affiliate Carat . |
| 20 | Ockrent is still trying to tone down his screen actors — ‘ remember there 'll be twenty feet of grimace up there ’ — but he retains the keenness of a novice : ‘ You get the excitement of a first night every ten minutes . ’ |
| 21 | It is rare for an Indie band to take off big on the strength of a first record . |
| 22 | However , the offer of a first record deal should not result in a ‘ sign at all costs ’ attitude from the artist . |
| 23 | Morgan asserted , and McLennan denied , the existence of a first stage of society when social life was undifferentiated , when marriage did not exist , and when above all , private property did not occur . |
| 24 | As for commercial reactions , they can be judged by the fact that the capital cost of a first FBR is estimated by the British nuclear industry at between 20 and 30 per cent greater than that of a PWR , and generating costs 20 per cent more . |
| 25 | She was determined to leave home ; Edward , according to one of Helen 's letters to Janet Aldis , ‘ haring ’ his father who still wished his son to enter the Civil Service in spite of the modest success of his articles and the prospect of a first book being published . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's certainly capable of a first . ’ |
| 27 | This must be something of a first , although the kitchen was extended in 1931 . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the first British PWR was being planned for Sizewell on the Suffolk coast , already the site of a first generation Magnox station . |
| 29 | A survey of women in Massachusetts has found the average length of a first healthy pregnancy to be 41 weeks and 1 day , with subsequent pregnancies at 40 weeks & 3 days ; Black and Japanese women have shorter pregnancies . |
| 30 | It was a draft of a first letter . |