Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inference which might be drawn from this analysis was that Eliot himself had conceived a homosexual passion for just such a young man and , when the article was reprinted four years after Eliot 's death , it was suggested to be Jean Verdenal , the Frenchman whom Eliot had met in Paris when he was a student there and to whom , after his death in the First World War , he dedicated Prufrock and Other Observations . |
| 2 | The draft contained a preamble put forward by Luxembourg during its presidency in the first half of 1991 [ see pp. 38295-97 ] , which spoke of the EC 's " federal " goal . |
| 3 | We robbed them of their land in the first place to reward the Annamese who collaborated with us . |
| 4 | This had forced general managers of the second wave into the reactive mould characteristic of their predecessors in the first wave . |
| 5 | From April 1992 , there has been a tax concession on both college fees and the cost of study material which leads to Vocational Qualifications , consequently those financing themselves on HCIMA programmes do not have to pay the tax element of their fees in the first place . |
| 6 | Studies in Minnesota have shown that once machines come in , racetracks lose 20–30% of their business in the first year . |
| 7 | Voices were raised in support of rounding up all foreigners , but the government was unwilling to go the way of its predecessor in the first world war and order a general internment . |
| 8 | The way it gets most of its growth in the first I mean , |
| 9 | The importance of the role she was now , willy-nilly , being forced to play in European affairs , in spite ( or perhaps because ) of her increasing weakness and inefficiency , is shown by the great though indirect and unsought significance of her part in the first partition of Poland ( see pp. 273ff ) . |
| 10 | The wind was taken out of her sails in the first two minutes when Oswin handed her a hundred pounds . |
| 11 | Mansell is looking to clinch a record-breaking ninth Grand Prix win in a season — and he underlined his determination yesterday by blasting clear of his chasers in the first qualifying session for tomorrow 's Portuguese race . |
| 12 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 13 | The correct dosage for your fish can only be supplied if you know the gallonage of your pond in the first place . |
| 14 | Of these , up to three quarters of your contributions in the first year will go as commission to the broker or sales representative . |
| 15 | For nearly 70 minutes , Ireland were in contention , but their inability to convert pressure into points when playing with the wind behind their backs in the first half cost them dearly in the end . |
| 16 | By and large they bore out what the girl 's uncle claimed — that it was with their consent , or even connivance , that the girl had gone to live with her uncle in the first place . |
| 17 | Derby may be flash with their money ; they were certainly flash with their football in the first half . |
| 18 | He had wanted the part of the young boy who could n't make it with his date in the first play , but he was a juvenile no more and Peter Shaffer had to convince him that it would n't work . |
| 19 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 20 | Although ‘ Ave verum corpus ’ was evidently composed well before its publication in the first book of Gradualia ( 1605 ) , it barely circulated in manuscript ( there are only two handwritten sources ) , and there is no evidence to show that it was singled out for special attention in Catholic households . |
| 21 | He revealed that more than 100 people were hurt in 81 accidents in his county in the first eight months of this year . |
| 22 | I should n't have been in his study in the first place . |
| 23 | So only six pounds a month is actually going to get invested in his fund in the first four years . |
| 24 | He believed that the human capacity for moral , social , and political adaptation had been stretched to its limit in the first century of the Industrial Revolution and fatally outstripped since . |
| 25 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 26 | In the second stage of gubernatorial , congressional and local elections held on Sept. 8 , the ruling Justicialist Party ( PJ — the Peronists ) built on their success in the first stage in August [ see p. 38388 ] by winning 10 of the 13 governorships being contested and gaining seven seats in the Chamber of Deputies , although this was still insufficient to give the PJ an outright majority . |
| 27 | and they fall flat on their face in the first week or so . |
| 28 | As Owen had not appointed Yussuf to his service in the first place but Yussuf had appointed himself , this seemed beside the point . |
| 29 | 69.315 ) and consequently to his source in the first century B.C. : its content agrees with an opinion which the source of Appian . |
| 30 | A twice-cracked shin-bone reduced Ian 's initial impact on his bow in the First Division , although he completely proved his worth among that august company and was called up for England B duty in December 1989 , before the injuries were sustained , but no one , friend or foe alike , will ever forget his dramatic appearance , again as a ‘ super-sub ’ , in the FA Cup Final of 1990 . |