Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children may be given tetanus vaccination in the first few weeks of life and its importance is underlined by its inclusion in the primary recommended vaccination schedules which begins at two months . |
| 2 | Suicide For Love is adapted by Matsuyo Akimoto from three plays by the 17th century writer Chikamatsu Monzaemon and Ninagawa 's production involves 73 actors , a swirling snow storm and a river on stage — the company , with true Japanese courtesy , provide plastic macs for the first two rows of spectators . |
| 3 | This would especially be the case , it would seem , if a company were contemplating a move to total quality control for the first time . |
| 4 | When the future Cardinal Richelieu entered government service for the first time in 1616 he found available so little essential documentation on foreign policy that he had to ask French representatives abroad to send him copies of the instructions they had been given : without this he could not know even what the policies of his immediate predecessor had been . |
| 5 | These involve Legendre functions of the first and second kinds ( 10.78 ) where a n , q n , Pn and b n are series of arbitrary constants . |
| 6 | Finally , there are the separable solutions of ( 10.73 ) which are non-singular on the initial boundaries , namely ( 10.82 ) which again involve Legendre functions of the first and second kind . |
| 7 | If the incremental project can be accepted then the logical conclusion is to accept Project D in the first instance . |
| 8 | Yesterday both Scots put the nightmare of Barcelona behind them , and made their dreams of becoming world champions for the first time come true . |
| 9 | Boots The chemist are to open pharmacy concessions for the first time in seven JS branches in late July . |
| 10 | It was reported on July 18 that the National Parliament had finally passed a bill extending the period within which a new government was immune from votes of no-confidence ; the amendment , due to come into effect after the general election due in 1992 , would prevent no-confidence motions within the first 18 months of a government 's new term . |
| 11 | West Dorset District Council , for instance , was refusing to house people evicted from winter-lets unless they qualified for housing prior to entering such accommodation , even though in this case they would presumably have sought council accommodation in the first place ( Larkin 1979 ) . |
| 12 | Individuals paying maintenance receive tax relief on the first £1,720 of payments to a divorced or separated spouse ; other maintenance payments , including any to children , do not qualify for tax relief . |
| 13 | well I did do stat view in the first year but not very much |
| 14 | Present Laughter would have made theatre history as the first production to go from Belfast into the West End . |
| 15 | The discontent was brought into the capital by the arrival in 1932 of some 15 000 unemployed " Veterans " ( i.e. men who had seen army service in the First World War ) . |
| 16 | An exhibition round : Arkle leads Mill House on the first circuit . |
| 17 | Therefore , if you had a £20,000 mortgage and wanted to raise a further £8,000 for home improvements , you could only claim tax relief on the first £20,000 . |
| 18 | There have also been symbolic measures ( such as restoring pay beds in NHS facilities ) , minor cuts ( such as withdrawal of supplementary benefits in vacations for students ) , some marginal privatization ( from 1986 employers were made responsible for paying sickness benefit for the first 28 weeks of an employee 's absence from work ) , tougher criteria ( people have to be ‘ actually seeking work ’ to be entitled to receive unemployment benefit and since 1 988 housing benefit is paid to fewer households ) , and an increase in the numbers relying on private medical insurance ( from 4 to 8 per cent since 1979 ) . |
| 19 | The long-established tendency for national populations to become more concentrated in large metropolitan centres and their surrounding hinterlands was found to be interrupted , if not broken : major cities were losing population not just from their older inner areas but from their whole city regions , while more remote rural areas with a history of depopulation began to record population growth for the first time for decades ( Morrison and Wheeler , 1976 ; Vining and Strauss , 1977 ; Vining and Kontuly , 1978 ; Brown and Wardwell , 1980 ; Fielding , 1982 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I only get tax relief on the first £30,000 , so that has remained the same . |
| 21 | Mr Robin Cook , shadow Health Secretary , said : ‘ We could not have chosen a better issue to put centre stage for the first televised session of Parliament . ’ |
| 22 | To illustrate this , let us imagine Heinrich Hertz , in 1888 , performing the electrical experiment that enabled him to produce and detect radio waves for the first time . |
| 23 | She went onto the Sunday Times hardcover bestseller list for the first time . |
| 24 | We need to fight drug addiction in the first instance and I do n't want to give people the paraphernalia to continue using drugs . ’ |
| 25 | In a major government reorganization in Croatia on Aug. 1 Tudjman included opposition politicians for the first time in a new " government of democratic unity " which continued to be dominated by the Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) with 11 out of 27 posts . |
| 26 | Similarly in Britain all the major parties changed their voting procedures in the 1960s and 1970s either to democratize leadership succession for the first time ( in the Conservative party ) or to broaden the franchise used to select leaders away from MPs to include party organizations outside Parliament ( in the case of Labour and the Liberals ) . |
| 27 | In the November 1982 election the percentage of candidates having surname initials in the first four letters of the alphabet was surprisingly high : 32.9 , but of the candidates elected it was higher still : 38.6 . |
| 28 | Note : sandstone grades are for on-sight ascents using rope knots for the first time . |
| 29 | While making it easier for people to build up considerable capital assets , and to pass these on intact , the Government has taken a number of measures that have allowed many people to acquire capital assets for the first time . |
| 30 | The never-say-die 69 year-old widower is also taking piano lessons for the first time . |