Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked about how the two parts of the exhibition about fifty autograph works in the first part followed by a section on debatable works by pupils and followers were connected , Dr Brown agreed that the two parts were , in fact , rather distinct . |
| 2 | The move comes in the wake of the British Lions defeat in the first RU Test against the All Blacks . |
| 3 | Yet one study showed that about one in five of all premarital pregnancies occur in the first month of a sexual relationship , and half within the first six months . |
| 4 | Maintenance and improvement works have been carried out over the past few months resulting in the first Sunday train leaving at 5pm . |
| 5 | Good arrangements and an eye for detail can only be achieved with practice , so it may help to have a few guidelines to follow in the first place , if only to act as a spring board for producing interesting and unusual ideas of your own . |
| 6 | He is leading an English team to compete in the first ever Irish staging of the Jack Charlton Trout Cup — an event which will take place at a lake near Bantry in County Cork on March 29 and 30 . |
| 7 | Only the defeat of Germany in 1945 made it possible for a satisfactory study of German war aims in the first world war to be undertaken . |
| 8 | Because you can see if the client 's up to the age of forty , he gets a higher erm , a reduced allocation , but if he 's seventy , he gets actually forty percent allocated in the first year , and he gets er , a full allocation from then on . |
| 9 | While speaking he had been aware of the Doctor 's red , exasperated features grimacing in the first rank at the foot of the stairs ; he had seemed nervously excited , anxious , impatient that the auction should be over . |
| 10 | The origins of this popular movement lie in the first wave of pressure for disarmament , which began with the emergence of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) in 1958 and ended in 1964 , with its decline in the face of the new Labour Government 's failure to rid itself of nuclear weapons . |
| 11 | ‘ Why was this baby kidnapped in the first place ? ’ |
| 12 | Since the bombing raids began over Iraq , Britons have flocked to join the army ( inquiries in London have quintupled ) ; to give blood ( in Plymouth alone , more than 1,600 people volunteered in the first few days , and 110,000 followed suit across the country ) ; and to say their prayers ( Winchester Cathedral reported that the congregation for Matins last Sunday was up by a half on the usual number ) . |
| 13 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 14 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 15 | I refer to the rapid decline of the use of walnut in English furniture making in the first half of the 18th century . |
| 16 | In 1941 , the French Police cooperated in the first mass internments on French soil . |
| 17 | One hundred and eighteen for three , which means thirty-nine runs added in the first hour today and it 's Tufnell coming up now to bowl , DaSilva , up he comes , bowls this one , DaSilva pushes forward and it just goes under the bat and fielded there by the wicketkeeper , no run . |
| 18 | Aggregate proceeds realised in the first half of 1992 from the sale amounted to C$83.2 million , yielding a profit of C$38 million . |
| 19 | Hinde House was one of ten comprehensive schools approached in the first year with a view to the launching of a school/industry partnership . |
| 20 | Britain 's real GDP fell in the first quarter , the third drop in a row , leaving it 2.5% down on a year ago . |
| 21 | In addition , there was a strong tendency for the remaining pauses to occur in the first half of a clause rather than the second half . |
| 22 | This method allows the difference to be calculated between the actual costs described in the first step and the costs described in the third step , i.e. those which should have been incurred and foreseen . |
| 23 | The principal point made in the first discussion paper on Finance is that the United Kingdom in 1973/74 contributed £313 million towards the support of Northern Ireland services , the equivalent of £200 per annum per head of the population . |
| 24 | Gone were the carefree , witty passages written in the first person , the conversational style , the caustic bitter comments . |
| 25 | The answer to such questions depends in the first place upon what we mean by ‘ syndrome ’ . |
| 26 | At Mallia , the Central Court existed in the First Temple Period , with rooms ranged at least along its western side ; as at Phaistos and Knossos , the new temple was apparently preceded by an earlier one on the same site . |
| 27 | There were seventeen precepting bodies operating in the first year of the new system and a larger number of ad hoc bodies which could levy funds . |
| 28 | The route from Bombay 's Victoria Terminus perhaps the most impressive station in the world , and noted for its decorative friezes which are dedicated to the railways of North-East England , including Stephenson and the embryonic Stockton and Darlington Railway crosses 100 bridge spans in the first 24 miles , of which 22 were fabricated by DWEC ( 1878–1905 ) . |
| 29 | Most cases ( 63% ) of chronic diarrhoea occurred in the first two years of life . |
| 30 | ( These were paid at a rate of 12p per mile with 100 per cent of the extra cost paid in the first year ; 75 per cent in the second ; 50 per cent in the third ; 25 per cent in the fourth and nothing thereafter . ) |