Example sentences of "[verb] in the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The analysis of maximum contributions determined during 1988–89 contained in the first Legal Aid Board Annual Report ( 1989–90 ) contains the following figures relating to all courts : |
| 2 | Specific proposals will no doubt be contained in the first joint spending and budget announcement in late autumn . |
| 3 | Voters lined up before dawn in Chad yesterday to participate in the first national election in 20 years in this war-torn former French colony . |
| 4 | Andy Sharpe led the way with a well compiled 74 break in the first left game . |
| 5 | Patients seen in the first half hour after the onset of symptoms are experiencing most severe pain . |
| 6 | Billie Jean King played in the first five Federation Cup finals . |
| 7 | By the early sixties … it was clear that neither the efforts made in the first post-war decade nor the developments outlined in Mr Butler 's White Paper were reducing — or were likely to reduce — the volume of crime or the numbers of persistent offenders . |
| 8 | Table 7.1 thus also supports the contention made in the first half hour of this chapter that short-term contract workers in the service sector are mainly " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 9 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 10 | As with NAEP , the science tests exhibit the most imaginative types of questions , although Michael Marland praised those used in the first secondary language survey . |
| 11 | While rejoicing in the first full month of the closed fishing season also look out for the pale new leaves of spring . |
| 12 | This was demonstrated in the first political crisis of wartime , a carry over from peacetime . |
| 13 | This point is noted in the First Periodic Report on the social and economic situation in the regions of the EC ( 1981 ) . |
| 14 | Barbel Abela is competing in the first round-the-world air race in a fifty-year-old bomber . |
| 15 | In late August 1832 the West India Merchants ' Committee still attacked as thoroughly improper the abolitionist practice of pledging parliamentary candidates to immediate emancipation and publishing pledge lists in the first post-reform election . |
| 16 | Davis , who won the world title for the sixth time in May , decided not to compete in the first two ranking events in Hong Hong and Bangkok . |
| 17 | However considerable problems were experienced in the first growth-room trial . |
| 18 | The history syllabus as defined in the first national curriculum which ended in 1926 : |
| 19 | They are based on notions of the future as envisioned in the first major exposition of the 1930s in America Chicago 's 1933 ‘ Century of Progress ’ . |
| 20 | More direct if under-stated evidence comes from the retrospective questions posed in the first official birth control enquiry in 1946 ( Lewis-Faning 1949 ) ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 21 | Their inspirational demonstrations and innovative classes were long remembered by all those privileged to have been there , and resulted in the first regular Medau Adult Education class being established in Dagenham ESSEX in 1935 . |
| 22 | Tanagra tried to replace Thebes as informal hegemon of the league in mid-century , but it was on Thebes that Sparta 's plans centred in the First Peloponnesian War . |
| 23 | When she cried in the first therapeutic session , he could not move over to comfort her and was surprised when the therapist drew attention to this strong communication which he had ignored . |
| 24 | Presidents of the 19 Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking American countries , along with the President and Prime Minister of Portugal , and the Prime Minister and King Juan Carlos of Spain , participated in the first Ibero-American summit held in the Mexican city of Guadalajara on July 18-19 . |
| 25 | Dick Spelman , general manager of marketing for the Halifax , Britain 's biggest mortgage lender , said the current recession has resulted in the first post-war collapse of house prices . |
| 26 | So ‘ Rasta ’ , ‘ Rusty ’ and ‘ Camley ’ featured in the first Roman Candle Their adventures were related in the first person , so giving a ‘ hume ’ character to the otherwise mute and very much stuffed fluffy playthings . |
| 27 | Eric , I reported to the C E C on Saturday night when presenting the , the Health Service Conference report , that I would be making a detailed report to the next er , meeting of the Public Services Section Committee on resources er , on what I see in the first five month of my er , ten year of office er , what , what we need to do , to play our part in the public service , to extend ourselves within the er , the Health Service . |
| 28 | On Feb. 12 some 36 such refugees were returned in the first mandatory repatriation of 1992 . |
| 29 | The background to the Essex initiative is described in the first annual report for 1981–1982 ( Taylor , 1983 ) as follows : |