Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The projects deriving from the first phase of the research programme cover topics like small firms , unemployment , career education in , and further education beyond , school , the agricultural sector in the economy , housing and the labour market . |
| 2 | Here is the chance to see the direction alternating for the first time . |
| 3 | Mansell was slow to start … and Williams team mate Ricardo Patrase got a flyer sneaking into the first bend ahead of the field . |
| 4 | The trick is to prevent violence occurring in the first place . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He paused , his blue eyes glinting with the first sign of malice he had shown . |
| 8 | Two trips were organised due to three pregnancies coinciding with the first dates . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Maintenance and improvement works have been carried out over the past few months resulting in the first Sunday train leaving at 5pm . |
| 11 | Comrades led 2–1 until the 79th minute , their two goals coming in the first half from David Eddis against one from a Dean Gordon own goal but United hit back late in the game . |
| 12 | Half an hour later , descending the stairs , she was startled to hear voices coming from the first floor . |
| 13 | This can be done by apply the formulae of Chapter 6 or , directly , by noting that replacing x 2 + σ 2 = 7 with x 2 + σ 2 = 3 can be effected by replacing σ 2 with σ 2 + 4 , so that the equation corresponding to the first row : becomes which is equivalent to replacing the RHS with 4 . |
| 14 | The whole procedure is initiated by a demand for data arising at the first site . |
| 15 | The formative period from 1850 to 1914 witnessed the birth of a clearly identifiable movement , with labour organising for the first time on a massive scale . |
| 16 | For example , the purchaser may consider that only 60 per cent of customer contracts expiring in the first year will be renewed , whereas the vendor believes 90 per cent to be a more likely renewal rate . |
| 17 | On 16 November 1987 solicitors acting for the first defendant wrote saying that he hoped to sell the property , and the proceedings were adjourned generally . |
| 18 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 19 | Commanded by Gen. Satish Nambiar of the Indian army , the force included contingents from 30 countries including for the first time Security Council permanent members France , Russia and the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | Derry , on the other hand , will be at full strength with Paul Trainor returning to the first team panel after serving a one match suspension against Limerick last weekend . |
| 21 | When the US Marine Corps ' 2 Division stormed ashore at Tarawa in November 1943 , a third of the 5,000 marines landing on the first day were casualties because the Japanese were well prepared and the tide played fateful tricks over the reefs . |
| 22 | Georgia attended an NACC meeting for the first time , Albania was also admitted as a member , and Finland attended as an observer . |
| 23 | Claudia lying in her hut listening for the first sounds of life . |
| 24 | As part of its future direction , ADDS previewed a 3270/X software package for migrating 3270 users to NCR 's Open Cooperative Computing Architecture beginning in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 25 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 26 | Squashed between the driver and the mechanic on top of the engine housing in the first truck , we found ourselves in the role of unwitting umpires , keeping the two men from each other 's throats . |
| 27 | On Thursday , a correct point of order was raised with Mr. Deputy Speaker about what one should do with matters arising from the first report of the Select Committee on Health . |
| 28 | This is hot enough for fusion to occur but so far they have been unable to confine the hot plasma long enough and at high enough densities to generate more energy from fusion than is used to keep the machine working in the first place . |
| 29 | This will allow more room in the main section of the fair where a number of innovations will be in evidence next year : a separate section for galleries exhibiting for the first time ; a section for photography and publishers and a more spacious layout of stands and aisles . |
| 30 | It was important to have transport , mobility , He reserved two rooms at the luxurious hotel which had a large reception hall and modern curving staircases leading to the first floor . |