Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The graduate courses are targeted at students in their first years at university , and the Masters at post-graduates or professionals with experience . |
| 2 | As he noted at the time , new houses intended for single families were subdivided into tenements on their first letting , for the very poor simply could not afford to pay their landlords a realistic return on their investment . |
| 3 | Woking , who knocked out West Brom two seasons ago , are still coming to terms with their first season in the Conference , but their Cup-fighting instincts are sure to resurface for their trip to Brighton . |
| 4 | Opportunities exist for students in their first year to gain sponsorship for the remaining three years from major civil engineering companies . |
| 5 | Darwin 's view was that dreams prevented delirium by allowing trains of ideas to continue in the absence of sensory input — if they were to be suspended in sleep like the voluntary motions , ( which are exerted only by intervals during our waking hours ) an accumulation of sensorial power would follow ; and on our awakening a delirium would supervene , since these ideas caused by sensation would be produced with such energy , that we should mistake the trains of imagination for ideas excited by irritation ; as perpetually happens to people debilitated by fevers on their first wakening ; for in these fevers with debility the general quantity of irritation being diminished , that of sensation is increased . |
| 6 | In the first place , our picture of the genesis to a large extent depends on the interpretation and dating of Nietzsche 's literary remains ( the Nachlass ) , and specifically on the mass of plans , fragments and isolated notes which survive in notebooks from his first years in Basle . |
| 7 | Little , 38 , an Aston Villa and England player , was sacked by Wolves in his first spell in football management , as caretaker manager at Molineux in 1986 . |