Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Do not allow the horse to wander into the first fence . |
| 32 | In at least two of the areas I visited the regional health authority and some of the first wave fundholders were wrangling over the savings accrued during the first year . |
| 33 | Ratings dropped during the first week of the revamped programme , but ITN now claims this trend has been reversed . |
| 34 | The elections were thus marked by a high rate of abstention : only 38.89 per cent of the electorate voted in the first round and 33.38 per cent in the second . |
| 35 | Hinde House was one of ten comprehensive schools approached in the first year with a view to the launching of a school/industry partnership . |
| 36 | The trick is to prevent violence occurring in the first place . |
| 37 | The poet writes in the first person singular as a man talking to a loved one about the inevitable advent of his death , and yet the matter discussed here is not so much death as the gradual disappearance of life . |
| 38 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 39 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 40 | Shell manufacture in Blundell Street car shed during the First World War : 200,000 shells were produced here , largely by female labour , yielding a profit to the Town of £16,000 , which was used to pay for the erection of the Cenotaph war memorial on Princess Parade . |
| 41 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 42 | I can see nothing in principle to prevent a contemnor applying to the first instance court to be released from custody on the ground that the failure to serve him with the committal order has kept him in ignorance of the contempts for which he has been imprisoned and that , in the circumstances , justice requires his release . |
| 43 | He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity . |
| 44 | The government , I , I find it somewhat disappointing that having put in what I think was an extremely good bid , I think having had that bid accepted at the first stage by government on their shortlist , having then had the bid accepted by the European Union , with the populations really that we submitted to them , we now find that U K government are actually trying trade back some of that population , and , and area coverage of the bid , to be able to use some of that spare capacity which they would generate within the U K , within the European population figure elsewhere within the country . |
| 45 | Our study describes for the first time the secretory and circulatory changes occurring with the progression of pancreatitis induced by caerulein infusion . |
| 46 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 47 | He paused , his blue eyes glinting with the first sign of malice he had shown . |
| 48 | The availability of sequence data from two mosaic genes of P.wickerhamii mitochondria allows for the first time a comparison of algal intron positions with those from fungi and liverwort . |
| 49 | Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and |
| 50 | Analysis of questionnaire and sickness absence data collected from the first phase of the Whitehall II study . |
| 51 | Those schools selected for the first quality audit in mathematics or science have recently been asked to supply 12 pieces of work from across the entire year group reflecting the spread of the ability range . |
| 52 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |
| 53 | The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood . |
| 54 | This result allows for the first time , sequence analysis of EF1β and δ proteins , both present in the same complex . |
| 55 | Paul Weston scored in the first half for Stockton , but it was not until the last five minutes that Paul Bromley crossed for their second try . |
| 56 | As she gathered them together , she noticed a small pamphlet stuffed inside the first carrier bag , and puzzled she pulled it out . |
| 57 | Easy rock leads to the first bulge , where a swing left under the overhang gains a glorious hand-jamming crack . |
| 58 | Although the same group of physicists has found good evidence for the production of B mesons at CESR before , this latest result shows for the first time the explicit decay of B mesons into less-rare , longer-lived particles ( Physical Review Letters , vol 50 , p 881 ) . |
| 59 | However , this turned out to be , in reality , another part of Kaiser Wilhelm 's expansionist policy , so the concessions were cancelled in 1905 and in 1914 , when Portugal joined in the First World War , all German interests were taken over by the Portuguese Government . |
| 60 | If in doubt , keep two provisional subjects going for the first half of the first term — and then drop the one that appeals to you the less . |