Example sentences of "first [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He destroyed my dreams in his first sentence by assuring me that the current wrought iron well cover only dated to the beginning of this century . |
| 2 | This level of examination goes beyond the groundwork laid at the First Level by testing more complex writing and understanding , and giving candidates a range of choice , not only of questions that will do them most credit , but of answers that will best suit the circumstances described . |
| 3 | This level of examination goes beyond the groundwork laid at the First Level by testing more complex writing and understanding . |
| 4 | Anthony Coburn got the commission to write the first story by a notable stroke of good fortune . |
| 5 | On Feb. 16 Vellayati held talks in Moscow with Bessmertnykh , and Aziz flew to Moscow on Feb. 17 , after first crossing by road into Iran ( coalition commanders having announced that they could not guarantee his safety in Iraqi airspace ) . |
| 6 | As a result , I am assured Mr Lee can look forward to receiving a first payment by the beginning of next week . |
| 7 | So once he 's paid the first payment by the fifth of January . |
| 8 | And there is Blackeyes herself undergoing her first trial by fire under the photographer 's lights and lascivious eye . |
| 9 | The ecologists ' leader Brice Lalonde , who has called for a broad-based ‘ Democratic Party ’ , welcomed Mr Rocard 's speech as the first admission by a top Socialist that the party was finished . |
| 10 | The clinical diagnosis of colorectal carcinoma was made after the first assessment by the clinician in 13 cases ; four of five cases with carcinoma and nine of 88 without carcinoma giving a sensitivity of 80% and specificity of 90% . |
| 11 | They should be fitted in the first instance by a community nurse , who will show you and the resident how to look after the catheter and how to empty the bag . |
| 12 | Drifting into the Colonial Office because deafness prevented him from taking up a career in the regular army , he brought with him a romantic conception of empire stimulated in the first instance by Kitchener 's Omdurman campaign and encouraged with appropriate reading matter by his father . |
| 13 | Given this mixture of affective and schizophrenic features a modern psychiatric diagnosis for Margery Kempe would most likely be ‘ schizoaffective psychosis ’ , precipitated in the first instance by childbirth . |
| 14 | In order to protect the public from the charlatan or the quack , entry into the profession must be guarded , its standards polic-ed , and its rules of practice defined in the first instance by the profession itself … |
| 15 | The possibility of pollution may often be established in the first instance by a third party — an onlooker or a user downstream — or by the discharger himself , rather than by the pollution control officer . |
| 16 | Conference participants agreed that regular meetings would be preceded in the first instance by a meeting in September of arms control experts who would finalize details of an agreement in time for a plenary session scheduled for October . |
| 17 | I will let you have a list of his customers and I want them contacted , in the first instance by telephone . |
| 18 | Unless the plaintiff requests that he ( the plaintiff ) serve personally , service is effected in the first instance by the court by first class postal service to the address given for the defendant in the request for summons ( N 201 – 4 , 208 or 209 ) . |
| 19 | Where partners are sued in the name of their firm , unless the plaintiff requests that he ( the plaintiff ) serve a partner personally , service is effected in the first instance by the court by first class postal service to the address given for the firm in the request for summons ( N 201 – 4 ) . |
| 20 | If there is a potential claim of this sort , for example for late delivery or mishandling an order , action will often be taken in the first instance by the exchange , as guarantor of market standards . |
| 21 | Erm the selection er er of er suppliers for the infra-red search and track w that was performed in the first instance by Eurofighter and the procurement organisations are the four Eurofighter partner companies make the checks on the potential suppliers in accordance with a schedule which we , the four governments , have provided to them . |
| 22 | Firstly , how did this extraordinary mistake came to be made in the first instance by the Department of Transport . |
| 23 | All applications will be considered in the first instance by one of six regional short listing panels , each regional panel will consist of a professional recruitment consultant and two people independent of government and I shall select those I wish to appoint as members of police authorities from the short list . |
| 24 | I think that teachers need to know people that they can turn to for further advice , but that they could familiarize themselves much more with what , as it were , they can do in the first instance by screening children , by using there are number of published materials , learning inventories , that can be used to discover whether a child has some difficulties that might point in this direction of dyslexia . |
| 25 | Ron Atkinson , the Sheffield Wednesday manager , yesterday promised the shareholders ' AGM that the team will not be relegated and will climb from the bottom of the First Division by Christmas . |
| 26 | When the idea of a Premier League was floated at Lancaster Gate a year ago , many of us welcomed what we were led to believe was a plan to revitalise the game , at club and international levels , with the replacement of the First Division by an 18-member competition under the direct control of the FA . |
| 27 | They lead the first division by one point from Gloucester , so it 's going to be some cup tie . |
| 28 | Christmas 1939 brought the first recognition by his superiors of the service he had performed . |
| 29 | The history of precious substances is richly documented , principally by archaeology , as far back as their first recognition by some of the earliest representatives of the modern species of Homo sapiens . |
| 30 | Parents of Calday Grange Grammar School students face a second ballot on opting out following a veto of the first vote by Education Secretary John Patten . |