Example sentences of "[noun] in the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Whitbread brewing and leisure company will provide 100 jobs as part of its £2 million investment in the first Scottish outlet for its American-style Thank God It 's Friday bistro chain . |
| 2 | John Bond 's side never got a look in as Quakers took command in the first half hour . |
| 3 | Omagh Town ran in three goals in the first half hour , and out-of-favour striker Cook could n't believe what he was watching . |
| 4 | We suspect that the high concentration in the first clinical vignette was due to sampling too early . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) Give a simple description of the document : eg conveyance instead of indenture for old deeds , etc. ( 3 ) Give the names of the parties in the first abstracted deed , but where these recur ( as , for example , where a buyer becomes a seller , or where personal representatives become sellers ) give initials only , so that after the first deed the seller , etc , of an abstracted document will commonly be shown by initials and so indicate that there is an unbroken chain of title . |
| 6 | Lara , who hit a brilliant century in the four-wicket win over Pakistan in the first one-day game , slammed 10 fours in his innings of 106 balls . |
| 7 | The issue of jobs was now added to the left agenda , as the print workers finally lost their grip on the production jugular of the industry in the first fundamental update of print technology since the late Middle Ages . |
| 8 | Plans for broadcasting in the First Five Year Plan included the setting up of community listening points , the building of regional and satellite stations , the replacement of transmitters and the provision of a tape transcription service for the better preservation and use of recorded material at Broadcasting House . |
| 9 | No force had taken a worse drubbing in the first mad onrush of Plan XVII than the Second Army that had then been under his command ; yet , in the moment of defeat , he had made an astonishing turnabout . |
| 10 | With the approach of civil war , Moore pledged his support to Parliament , being named a deputy lieutenant of Lancashire on 24 March 1642 and taking part in July in the first military action of the war in Manchester , which was secured after a skirmish with Lord Strange . |
| 11 | On February 24 , company borrowings under the credit agreement totalled $4.3m and the chip designer says that as a result of getting this new credit agreement , restructuring of key equipment leases , and the company 's return to profitability in the first fiscal quarter to December 31 , it believes substantial progress has been made toward killing doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern . |
| 12 | Consumption in period t + 5 will therefore be unchanged : But investment will fall again : Since investment falls and consumption stays the same , income in period t + 5 will be lower than in period t + 4 : So far in the analysis , the single increase in autonomous investment of £10 has caused income to rise from £1,000 to £1,025 in the first four time periods and then to start to fall in the fifth . |
| 13 | This would be caused by a faulty transistor or IC device in the first audio stage of the unit . |
| 14 | He fought as a banneret in the first Welsh war of 1277–8 , visited Gascony and Paris on Edward 's business in 1278–9 , and fought again in the second Welsh war of 1282–3 . |
| 15 | There was , he pointed out , no such article in the first Soviet constitution , adopted in Lenin 's time . |
| 16 | ‘ I might have died , you mean , ’ said Julia in the first lawyerly voice of her convalescence and then was sorry when she saw his face . |
| 17 | They must have crossed 1,000 balls in the first half hour . |
| 18 | In July 1990 , the then New Zealand Minister for Tourism and Disarmament and Arms Control , Fran Wilde , visited Fiji in the first direct contact between the two countries since the coups of 1987 . |
| 19 | NORTH-EAST politicians clashed yesterday over the health service in the first major debate of the election campaign . |
| 20 | example An essay pointing out that Shakespeare 's first sonnet ends with a comma in the first printed edition and arguing that this is because it is the first part of a larger poem including also the second sonnet . |
| 21 | There is no order of hymns in the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 22 | She had given in because she found him irresistible and , looking at his strong brown back in the first grey light of dawn , she still found him so . |
| 23 | And they took part in the first worldwide television broadcast , singing All You Need Is Love live to an estimated audience of 150 million . |
| 24 | wins its independence from South Africa ; SWAPO and other exiles return to take part in the first general election . |
| 25 | Continuing buoyant fish feed demand should result in being ahead of budget in the first half year . |
| 26 | Bazaine has pointed to the existence of the red robe in the first known copy of the painting , made in 1607 , nineteen years after Veronese 's death , and the fact that the red was a focal point in the composition . |
| 27 | There were , I found myself thinking , a hell of a lot of people called Roger in the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 28 | New manager Ray Hankin disposed of the rusty 5–3–2 formation and pushed his assistant Mick Tait into a hard working midfield which created several openings in the first half hour . |
| 29 | Point mutations in the first two base pairs of K-ras codon 12 were sought by a method previously described , and modified from the non-radioactive restriction enzyme technique of Jiang et al . |
| 30 | Czechoslovakia goes to the polls this month in the first democratic election since 1946 . |