Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under a new law , proposed during the fifth session of the eighth National Assembly ( which convened in Hanoi on June 20-30 , 1989 ) , non-CPV members were allowed to stand as candidates for the first time . |
| 2 | I would quibble with details in the first movement , but the savage second movement is unsurpassed in its combined ferocity and thrust , the third moves from creeping malevolence to a spinetingling summoning-up of ghosts , and the finale rushes lemming-like to its conclusion , making a nonsense of the average insert-note description . |
| 3 | ‘ An order under section 6(2) requiring the third , fourth and fifth defendants to pay such sum as the court thinks fit to the plaintiffs or alternatively into court or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 30 or , alternatively , to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 31 in such manner as the court may direct for the purpose of restoring persons who entered into transactions with the first defendant in the course of contravention of section 3 by the first defendant to the position in which they were before the transactions were entered into . |
| 4 | Ukrainian and Western researchers now believe that the fire at the plant was not extinguished by material dropped from helicopters within the first 10 days after the accident , as originally claimed , but simply burned itself out . |
| 5 | Later on in the morning , a class of 15 and 16 year olds is painting in oils for the first time . |
| 6 | Suddenly , though , we are anonymous , most of us , most of this ‘ happy breed , ’ rather like champions of the junior school who find themselves overnight turned into mites of the first form . |
| 7 | Cultures , especially the patriarchal cultures instilled into children in the first four or five years of their lives , had now distorted an essentially benign human nature . |
| 8 | Worldwide unit volumes in the quarter more than tripled from levels in the first quarter of 1992 , and ‘ expenses are firmly under control , ’ it said . |
| 9 | ‘ ( 4 ) Are the answers to questions ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) affected by the fact that the measure in question has been introduced with the object and effect of rendering a number of fishing vessels which immediately prior to the date of such measure coming into effect have been duly registered in and licensed to fish by the member state in question and which are to a substantial extent beneficially owned by nationals of another member state , resident and domiciled in that other member state , ineligible to fly the flag of the first member state with the result that they cease to be eligible to fish against the catch quotas allocated to the first member state under the Common Fisheries Policy unless ownership and management of the vessels are transferred to citizens of the first member state resident and domiciled therein in accordance with the provisions of the said measure ? |
| 10 | ‘ ( 4 ) Are the answers to questions ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) affected by the fact that the measure in question has been introduced with the object and effect of rendering a number of fishing vessels which immediately prior to the date of such measure coming into effect have been duly registered in and licensed to fish by the member state in question and which are to a substantial extent beneficially owned by nationals of another member state , resident and domiciled in that other member state , ineligible to fly the flag of the first member state with the result that they cease to be eligible to fish against the catch quotas allocated to the first member state under the Common Fisheries Policy unless ownership and management of the vessels are transferred to citizens of the first member state resident and domiciled therein in accordance with the provisions of the said measure ? |
| 11 | The most spectacular change in mortality rates over the past 150 years has related to deaths within the first year of life — the infant mortality rate . |
| 12 | Before Christmas many of the shops had to open on Sundays for the first time just to try to make up for the terrible year . |
| 13 | If this kind of picture were to apply to the London Caribbean community , we should expect to find a pattern where Creole was used between members of the first generation and by them to their children . |
| 14 | The first full-page story told in pictures concerning the first truly British comic hero — a character called ‘ Ally Sloper ’ — appeared in Judy during 1867 . |
| 15 | ‘ I just want to get this season over and start from fresh again , ’ added the ring-rusty world No 55 , also forced to play in glasses for the first time . |
| 16 | Many were , indeed , buried during the Hannibalic War or the civil wars after 49BC , when much of the fighting took place in Italy , but many other hoards were buried at times during the first century BC when there was no fighting there . |
| 17 | They are even calling for strikes for the first time in their history . |
| 18 | From him , I heard of leys for the first time , and learned that he had found alignments of tree clumps in the countryside around his home . |
| 19 | The street was packed with members of the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 20 | More than three-quarters of the requested items which were at binding were serial parts being bound into volumes for the first time . |
| 21 | Both of these have also been raised in evaluations of the first six years of National Certificate 's operation . |
| 22 | Some research teams are trying to prevent viruses from getting inside cells in the first place . |
| 23 | First though I want to see what help and advice it is possible to give to teachers in the first two groups : we will focus on the ‘ destressers ’ in this chapter , and on the ‘ change agents ’ in the next . |
| 24 | Its subsidiaries , including interests in financial services , personal pensions , in collaboration with Colonial Mutual , and investment management , contributed to profits for the first time . |
| 25 | The Last Post was sounded by buglers of the First Battalion , Royal Regiment of Wales . |
| 26 | People do laugh in meetings of the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 27 | Many people , in order to feel more secure , make the mistake of diving into straps at the first possible opportunity . |
| 28 | This was the classic showman speaking and on this occasion he was directing his remarks directly at those intellectuals whom his films had brought into cinemas for the first time . |
| 29 | The transitional or ‘ replacement ’ relief is to be restricted to periods before the first deemed disposal . |
| 30 | The follow up study was restricted to participants from the first study who were 25 to 74 years of age at baseline . |