Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the foundation U , yo you 've got the option to start the teaching certificate in the first year . |
| 2 | The series moves from sentence/paragraph level in the first book , through whole text level in the second ; the third book presents real ( but slightly modified ) academic texts ; and finally , in the fourth book , genuine unsimplified texts are used . |
| 3 | The budget deficit in the first half of 1992 had reached 7.5 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) , rising sharply in July and August ; " substantial tightening of the budget policy " was to be expected . |
| 4 | Izvestiya of March 12 reported that officials were predicting a budget deficit in the first quarter of around 10 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) against the government 's target of 1 per cent . |
| 5 | Rossiskaya gazeta of May 14 carried budget plans approved by the Supreme Soviet and dated April 4 , which set the RF budget deficit in the first quarter of 1992 at Rbs. 67,500 million . |
| 6 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 7 | The company made at least one take-over of another East End brewery before the First World War , John Furze and Co 's St George brewery , Church Lane , Whitechapel , in 1901 . |
| 8 | They allowed cameras into their Hereford base for the first time , to drive home the message that the public must be on their guard in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 9 | It is possible to go on with the same therapist to deal with the problems which caused you to need the regression experience in the first place . |
| 10 | Marcel , the first person narrator of the novel , meets the writer Bergotte for the first time . |
| 11 | Make friends with your accounts department at the first opportunity . |
| 12 | Anyone interested in seeking educational assistance to help further their career should contact their line manager or personnel department in the first instance . |
| 13 | To examine the relation between birth weight and β cell function in the first degree relatives of non-insulin dependent diabetic subjects . |
| 14 | A further question may have arisen ; why is the fertile soil or the susceptibility present in the first place ? |
| 15 | Mr Thompson , 42 , of Chelmsford , Essex , was murdered in October in a hotel car park on the first day of his holiday . |
| 16 | All this supposes that the persons mentioned want to go on the search trek in the first place . |
| 17 | Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt 's excellent book , The Bomber Command War Diaries tell us that on the night of 23/24 September Bomber Command for the first time concentrated its main bomber strength on one city — Berlin . |
| 18 | Pham told delegates that there had been a rapid increase in export turnover during the first half of 1990 , but that the production of export goods was threatened by the major socio-economic changes in Eastern Europe , which had forced some countries to cancel contracts , and that " the dilatory payment and overdue debts to the export goods manufacturers fail to encourage the production of export goods " . |
| 19 | ‘ From a planning point of view it would not have been a major worry , although only the force staging the original tie could police the second replay because all the liaison work for the first match would have been done . |
| 20 | The Institute and a number of regions and branches were successful in obtaining grants from the Arts Council in the first tranche approved by its Architecture Unit . |
| 21 | The actual decision was given on the basis that applying s5 of the Partnership Act in the first case and the general law of agency in the second , the firms were liable on the undertakings because they were given by their partner/employee acting within the usual course of his business as a qualified solicitor . |
| 22 | RESTORE followed by a parameter sets the data pointer to the first item of data in the specified line ( or the next line containing a DATA statement if the specified line does not contain data ) . |
| 23 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 24 | turns , there , gets the header , Notts go in front , it was brilliantly made by and had the easiest of jobs and what a comeback it is , because Notts trailed by two in twenty minutes and now they lead three two against the side second in the first division table , who 've been run ragged in the second half , by a storming Notts comeback , brilliant , header . |
| 25 | It would not be statute law in the first instance , since it takes so long to get proposed statutes passed into law . |
| 26 | In this version of 1-2-3 you have to substitute the cell reference of the first cell in the corresponding field when you do this . |
| 27 | The element of time-saving is seen as significant by many employers , and one respondent identified it as the main motive for taking a recruiting problem to a search consultant in the first place . |
| 28 | ( viii ) The prisoner may make representations to the local review committee before the first review . |
| 29 | They lead Bushbury , who have led for most of the season , 5–1 in their eight-game match after the first session of play . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , it looks likely that most of the official aid to the repatriation process will be channelled through Guatemalan government agencies , given to the very people responsible for the refugee crisis in the first place . |