Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With astonishing speed , cults such as that of the first martyr , Stephen , spread over the whole Mediterranean world , and , eventually , beyond . |
| 2 | I also spoke to the chief investigator of the Senate committee , who said that he had taken a large amount of information about this to the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington , but the British government had hampered any further investigation . |
| 3 | As a result of this feedback , we are now considering adding extra modules to the original specifications for some of the first phase of general SVQs . |
| 4 | To their great credit , Romania looked far from demoralised on the field , driving the Scots on to the back foot for much of the first half and restricting the scoreline to 3-0 until the 39th minute . |
| 5 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |
| 6 | Thus by prioritizing intention and relegating consequences as accidents — conveniently turning a blind eye to strict liability-corporate officials can proceed to commit corporate crimes because they do not perceive them as such in the first place . |
| 7 | The Government came under heavy pressure from the Law Society of Scotland to retain the contributory band to ensure that applicants were not encouraged to waste police and court time by using legal aid procedures to delay an eventual plea of guilty on the first day in court . |
| 8 | Hybrid Tea bush types After attending to the basics or primary aspects — removing completely all dead , diseased and feeble wood ( you wo n't find much of this in the first year ) — seek to prune to outward-pointing buds that will grow out along the line of growth , not sideways , so that this growth leads to an open cup or shuttlecock shape . |
| 9 | A novelty ladies ' night boosted the attendance mark past 8,000 for the first time this season , and Chief Executive Frank Corfe said : ‘ The evening was a success . |
| 10 | A novelty ladies ' night boosted the attendance mark past 8,000 for the first time this season , and Chief Executive Frank Corfe said : ‘ The evening was a success . |
| 11 | ANDY GOODWAY and David Hobbs , two former Oldham forwards , were yesterday rehabilitated at international level when Malcolm Reilly named a squad of 21 for the first Test against New Zealand on Saturday week . |
| 12 | The idea of a specially designed dolls ' house for Queen Mary , the wife of King George V , was first conceived in the spring of 1921 by a first cousin of the King , Princess Marie Louise . |
| 13 | Now orders came from the , and also we had orders for th , e the falling target in the you know , of a , a rifle range where you had to er put up the frames you know with a target on it and er we made a lot of these during the First World War . |
| 14 | These trends are also confirmed in the Guardian 's ‘ People At Work Survey ’ which found that some 49 per cent of those with a GCE/CSE qualification would consider moving to take up their next job , 59 per cent of those with a first degree and 74 per cent of those with a doctorate would do so . |
| 15 | There are n't many of those in the First Church . |
| 16 | There were six of those in the first section of the compartment . |
| 17 | London 's International Stock Exchange said it would cut 350 people from its staff of 2,800 in the first stage of a big slimming campaign . |
| 18 | This assumption allows Lucas to measure as the deviation of actual real output , from the value predicted from a regression of on a constant and time ( where time might take the value of 1 in the first year of the data period , 2 in the second and so on ) . |
| 19 | Boyd first came to Britain in the early Sixties as the organiser of one of the first package tours of blues and gospel musicians , featuring artists such as Muddy Waters and the Reverend Gary Davis . |
| 20 | We even sold over £100 worth of '78s on the first day of the sale ! |
| 21 | The Districts of Bedfordshire had the largest increase of any in the first period ( 10.3 per cent ) , followed by the second largest decrease ( -9.0 per cent ) in the second period , and a middling change in the third . |
| 22 | A gain of 400 in the first amplifier/filter will then produce an output of almost two and a half volts from the total earth 's field vector , avoiding overload and permitting a peak-to-peak measurement by rotating the core . |
| 23 | They were like that from the first time I met them . ’ |
| 24 | If they were smart enough to get bored , they would n't be doing a job like this in the first place . |
| 25 | In 1889 , the miller was the aptly named Mr T. Miller , and between 1897 to the First World War , Frank Parry . |
| 26 | This is because the students will be dealing with this for the first time and this is thought to be a clearer presentation . |
| 27 | Remember you 're going into this for the first time . |
| 28 | Of the known opioid users , 601 ( 77 per cent ) were male , which is a male to female ratio of 3.3:1-compared with 3.9:1 in the first survey ( see Table 3.4 ) . |
| 29 | As we drive from mine to exhausted mine I chat with some of the first group about doing geology . |
| 30 | Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong . |