Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They still did n't want both openers out for ducks in the first two overs , nor Jones to follow for 5 . |
| 2 | The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee ran the national campaign for recruits in the first eighteen months of the war , through party rather than national channels . |
| 3 | The 1936–37 season back home was Darling 's last , but it embraced three fine achievements at the MCG : centuries in the South Australia and Queensland matches , and a recall for the third Test match , in which Australia began their fightback after losses in the first two Tests . |
| 4 | Seve , Nick , Jose-Maria and Woosie are all superstars although Josie-Maria and Ian have n't proved it yet it terms of Majors and I looked upon them as bankers on the first two days . |
| 5 | As an example of the geographical comparison of normal patterns we can compare the relative incidence of coins of the first two centuries AD in two different areas such as Britain and Italy . |
| 6 | The voluntary scheme has the backing of the government , which is providing £13 million of funds for the first three years . |
| 7 | Tourism continued to do well in 1990 with the number of arrivals in the first nine months of 1990 5.5 per cent higher than in the corresponding period of 1989 . |
| 8 | Instead it was the visitors who made the early running , albeit by the narrowest of margins in the first three games . |
| 9 | In the UK , statutory maternity pay is 90 per cent of earnings for the first six weeks of maternity leave and then a lower rate of £39.25 for a further 12 weeks . |
| 10 | There is no order of hymns in the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 11 | This gradual build-up of reps over the first 3 sessions will reduce the amount of stiffness and soreness experienced in the muscles at the start of the programme . |
| 12 | HAVING had a summer of fair-weather golf , competitors in the British Women 's Stroke-Play Championship at Southerness , many of whom had not had to don a sweater in months , were faced with the foulest of conditions over the first two days . |
| 13 | He continues : ‘ I started off putting all sorts of things into the first rough attempts , birds in one , Greek columns in another , Victorian oil lamps ; I even tried buildings and finally helicopters and an aeroplane , but gradually came to see that the designs were hopelessly confused . ’ |
| 14 | By preventing segregation of chromosomes in the first mitotic division , diploidy is restored , which leads to the development of a parthenogenetic female . |
| 15 | By a judicious selection of courses in the first two years students may apply for transfer to a different joint or single honours degree . |
| 16 | Hence it is hardly probable that a group of remarks about the first four groups could place any restriction on the nature of the two later groups , and thus there is a lot of room for an invalidating counter-example to the principle of closure . |
| 17 | ’ Here this approach will be explored by investigating one particularly appropriate episode in the social history of the Second World War — the evacuation of schoolchildren in the first few months after September 1939 . |
| 18 | So when the wedding was over , the special train pulled out amidst a rainstorm , and there was an undignified scramble for seats in the first ordinary scheduled train into Windsor Station . |
| 19 | David Goldman , chairman , said the group 's United Kingdom software sales rose by 16 p.c. despite difficult market conditions and that Sage continues to trade ahead of internal targets , with profits in the first half 62 p.c. up on the corresponding period . |
| 20 | De Lorenzi started her round with birdies at the first two holes then dropped a shot at the short third hole to stand at eight under . |
| 21 | As well as printing bibles , it was noted for its support of culture and scholarship north of the border , with publications including the first Gaelic translation of the New Testament , MacPherson 's Ossian , and Jamieson 's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language . |
| 22 | The street was packed with members of the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 23 | Cultures , especially the patriarchal cultures instilled into children in the first four or five years of their lives , had now distorted an essentially benign human nature . |
| 24 | Many people , in order to feel more secure , make the mistake of diving into straps at the first possible opportunity . |
| 25 | It 's also packed with the mother 's antibodies against common things like flu , which help protect the baby from infections in the first few months of his life . |
| 26 | Ukrainian and Western researchers now believe that the fire at the plant was not extinguished by material dropped from helicopters within the first 10 days after the accident , as originally claimed , but simply burned itself out . |
| 27 | On average you get a maximum of £60 — £100 , paid in instalments after the first 12 hours ' delay . |
| 28 | Both of these have also been raised in evaluations of the first six years of National Certificate 's operation . |
| 29 | Furthermore , as the amount of alcohol consumed before pancreatitis correlates with the severity markers of the disease in patients with the first acute alcoholic pancreatitis episode , the correlation between the alcohol consumption in Finland and the occurrence of severe pancreatitis in the country was also studied . |
| 30 | In addition to speaker , addressee and audience ( third person , being , of course , definable in terms of the first two ) , there are a number of further distinctions in person deixis that probably need to be made . |