Example sentences of "[noun] for the first [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan has been sufficiently impressed with the results so far to finance the printing of enough copies for the first year pupils of three comprehensive schools beginning in September 1985 . |
| 2 | Payment for the first lorry hi-jacking , Wexford thought , a nice little bit of compensation for his concussion . |
| 3 | ANDREJ KANCHELSKIS , blissfully unaware of Manchester United 's long struggle for the First Division championship until last summer , kept the dream alive at Old Trafford last night . |
| 4 | In front of the house was a typical Victorian garden which had been designed by Edward Kemp for the first Sir John : a few formal terraces , some bedding out , a tortuously clipped yew topiary and a small paved area with rose beds . |
| 5 | Eric Alston 's sprinter led the field for the first Sunday race at Doncaster a merry dance under Lester Piggott for just over five furlongs before fading behind Savoyard . |
| 6 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 7 | She went the whole way now : ‘ He 'll pull the switch for the first television transmission to Danu , and that will also be the moment Danu is absorbed into the republic as the fifty-eighth province . |
| 8 | There was , however , disappointment for the government on both counts : investment by industry in the inner cities has remained relatively small , and only 20 per cent of the funds for the first City Technology Colleges came from non-government sources . |
| 9 | Well the difference between these two sides was a Newcastle born mid-fielder , by the name of Paul Gascoigne ; not only did he score two second half goals for the first division club , but he dominated proceedings in mid-field . |
| 10 | As an added incentive the Chester-le-Street group of clubs provide a trophy for the first CIU member past the post and this year the clubmen 's shield went to Paul Casey from Osborne Social Club . |
| 11 | Normally , the rates are £19.50 for the first halt hour and for each additional quarter of an hour or part of it , £4.50 , For weekday overtime the rates go up to £23.80 and £5.45 , for Saturday overtime , £24.70 and £5.65 , Sunday overtime , £31.70 and £7.15 and for Bank holiday overtime , £37.00 and £8.25 . |
| 12 | The plan is that none of these people will be able to purchase any of the seven thousand tickets available to England for the first round matches . |
| 13 | And with this in mind , hundreds of budding Fred and Ginger 's hot-footed it along to Cheltenham Town Hall for the first Ballroom Dancing Festival . |
| 14 | A fine comedy resulted , as the high culture of pre-war Vienna was reduced to eight discs , one book ( Goethe 's poems ) , one luxury ( a bath-tub ) , and responses to such questions as ‘ What should a person going into an art gallery for the first time look for ? ’ |
| 15 | On taking out an annual subscription ( for which the usual fee is £22 , plus an additional £5 for the first year enrolment ) , Ideal Home Subscribers will receive a copy of the Royal Horticultural Society Address Book , worth £8.99 , absolutely free . |
| 16 | More fundamentally , many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach . |
| 17 | Mathematics if not logic equated the two-goal lead Chelsea had established on the hour with a third-round place for the First Division side after the two clubs had drawn 1-1 at Stamford Bridge . |
| 18 | Well I do think give fourteen days for the first payment sir . |
| 19 | give fourteen days for the first payment sir ? |
| 20 | Climbing the hill for the first time Whiggie Geo dropped back and Bradley decided to try to make the rest of the running . |
| 21 | as if to illustrate his point , the early volunteers on site for the first passenger services of the year on Saturday , April 11 , were the ladies . |
| 22 | Earls Court , London is the venue for the first Pet Show , May 2nd–4th . |
| 23 | Vodafone Group Plc 's Vodata Ltd has launched a facsimile broadcast service , Vodafax Broadcast : users load information onto a personal computer or facsimile machine and send it to their unique number : information is automatically distributed to a predefined list of recipients , either immediately or at a pre-set time ; there is a £25 connection charge , a £10 monthly charge for the first distribution list and a £5 monthly charge for subsequent lists ; distribution costs from 10p to 14p per minute per recipient . |
| 24 | If you have n't , or do n't feel able to take care of the mess at the end of your legs , head for the first aid tents . |
| 25 | ‘ It would be naive and stupid to think we have a walkover just because we are favourites for the First Division title . |
| 26 | The Dutchman Jos Lansink , the only rider left with a chance of meeting the conditions for the first Everest Challenge ( which had required him to jump double clear rounds in four specified contests ) , would have collected a Jaguar car if he had won the Grand Prix . |
| 27 | In other words , the extra cost — the entry level price for the first CD-I players will probably be between £500 and £600 — may be seen as an acceptable premium on a CD-A player which buys , in addition , a multimedia information system . |
| 28 | If if a If his average for the first X test was one greater than his average for |
| 29 | If his average for the first X tests is one greater than the average Sorry beg your pardon I 've got it round me round me neck . |
| 30 | The single-sex environment of mid-nineteenth-century US women 's colleges seems to have provided a uniquely supportive environment for the first women psychologists , for example ( Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 ) . |