Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb pp] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition we are still receiving enquiries about prisoners featured in the first two series in 1988 and 1989 , and we have recently received a copy of a letter from Alattin Sahin , the Turkish prisoner of conscience in the 1988 , which someone has received on his release . |
| 2 | The rate of progress made in the first 20 years was only achieved by the geologists being in the field most of the year . |
| 3 | The total number of pieces of gum used in the first day should be gradually reduced over a subsequent period of ten days . |
| 4 | An Act of Parliament passed in the first year of his reign recited that great numbers of persons : |
| 5 | In order to protect the public from the charlatan or the quack , entry into the profession must be guarded , its standards polic-ed , and its rules of practice defined in the first instance by the profession itself … |
| 6 | Three of those eight variables ( excluding Pugh score ) independently influenced patient survival in the logistic regression analysis : encephalopathy , Prothrombin time and units of blood transfused within the first 72 hours ( current model ) . |
| 7 | A survey by Jordans has found that the number of companies created in the first half of this year was 3.1% lower than the same period last year . |
| 8 | By Article V of the Convention , the sultan promised to negotiate with the Serbs on their demands for freedom of worship ; the right to establish their own schools and printing presses ; the return of areas won during the first revolt and forcibly returned to Turkish rule in 1813 ; the right of Serbian merchants to trade freely throughout the Ottoman empire ; a prohibition on any new Turkish settlement outside the major towns ; and an increase in the powers of Serbian government . |
| 9 | Matthew 's theory drew upon a long tradition of applying evolutionism to the problems of biogeography begun by the first Darwinians . |
| 10 | It has seen the consolidation of work commenced in the first year ; the forging ahead of ‘ key ’ enterprise activities university wide and the ‘ piloting ’ of a number of innovative projects . |
| 11 | ‘ One grain of corn placed on the first square on the board . |
| 12 | ( There are extremely instructive comparisons to be made between the films that make up Manvell 's ‘ Miscellany ’ and the ‘ pantheon ’ of directors listed in the first , 1962 , issue of Movie — the changes are an eloquently stark illustration of the massive reorientation of British film culture . ) |
| 13 | If the Bank refuses to accept these offers then the amount of assistance provided in the first round could be a long way short of the overall amount of assistance needed during the day . |
| 14 | I would also like to know how to get the Van Halen and Brian May sounds , and also the type of sound used on the first Extreme album , during the songs Watching , Waiting and Mutha as the distortion on both sounds smoother and less buzzy . |
| 15 | It is likely that there were windows of appearance located on the first floors of the Minoan temples , overlooking both West and Central Courts . |
| 16 | Specific activity was calculated from the slope of the linear incorporation of radioactivity observed during the first 25 min of the reaction . |
| 17 | When we set about trying to understand difficult discourse we often start with the kind of knowledge elicited by the first six questions . |
| 18 | The emphasis in Developments on boards being required to work within committee policies , and the changes of procedure envisaged in the first four items of the new model , did not mean automatic changes in the ‘ inspectoral ’ functions of the boards . |
| 19 | The level of orders received in the first quarter worsened compared with a year earlier , but turnover in the first quarter was up to the high levels of the year-ago quarter . |
| 20 | A stream of urine splashed into the first glass , and as it filled Estelle guided the stream to the next glass as if she were holding a hose pipe . |
| 21 | On the other hand , this heterogeneity between risk groups might reflect the existence of constitutionally distinct subgroups within a population that has different forms of susceptibility to adenoma development : one with generalised and noticeable proliferative anomalies throughout the entire colonic epithelium that produce an increase tendency toward recidivism , and a second , less recidivant subgroup in whom polyp development is not preceded by the generalised pattern of hyperproliferation seen in the first group but by other types of alterations as yet unidentified . |
| 22 | Turning a quarter circle away from the mosque towards the setting sun , through the early evening heat haze I could see the distant silhouette of the Qutab Minar , the tower of victory built by the first Sultan immediately after he had driven the Hindus from Delhi in 1192 . |
| 23 | The list of transitions produced by the first program is sorted ( numerically , by the first node number ) , and the node numbers are converted into edge numbers , by a simple nawk ( Aho et al , 1988 ) program . |
| 24 | His second example involved a transhipment bill of lading issued by the first carrier and damage or loss occurring on the second carrier 's vessel . |
| 25 | The sale was notable both in content and in consignors : more pieces from the collection of Mrs Barbara Johnson ; a number of lots from the Luton Hoo Wernher family collection ; from John Kluge ; and sixty lots from the Meikleour Estate Trust which comprises the celebrated collection of furniture assembled in the first half of the nineteenth century by the comte de Flahaut de la Billarderie , natural son of Talleyrand , and his wife , Margaret , Baroness Keith and Nairne . |
| 26 | Only 77 per cent of children enrolled in the first grade ( Standard Sub-A- SSA ) in 1985 survived into the second year ( Standard Sub-B — SSB ) , little better than the 74 per cent of 1966 . |
| 27 | And it was n't exactly the kind of thing endorsed by the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 28 | Success was rapid with 2,196 organized weeks of holiday taken in the first year of operation . |
| 29 | This is one US citizen who believes very firmly in the uninhibited freedom of expression guaranteed in the First Amendment , while not considering Ice-T a ‘ living martyr ’ . |
| 30 | The property of single-peakedness exhibited by the first model has been shown ( Black , 1948 ) to ensure existence of a voting equilibrium . |