Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the first [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course Oxford supporters do n't need reminding that last season they led Fulham 1-0 after the first leg and they lost 5-3 at home . |
| 2 | ‘ The chorus has got to happen within the first 30 seconds , it 's got to be memorable after the first play and it 's either got to make you feel reflective or happy . ’ |
| 3 | This is because the students will be dealing with this for the first time and this is thought to be a clearer presentation . |
| 4 | Newcastle are 12 points clear in the First Division and Keegan added : ‘ There have been massive changes here and we 're beginning to reap the rewards already . |
| 5 | Only these two , both mares , from a field of 34 , went clear in the first round and then Raymakers , who had scored earlier in the day on Rinnetou , had to go first against the clock . |
| 6 | The point is that regular-interval sampling makes every case dependent upon the first choice and so each individual unit does not have the same chance of being sampled . |
| 7 | So I could always go up there and I used there little drill for one thing and another in the first place and er built that premise for me there did and I did er |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They did n't do much in the first game and we 're unbeaten away . ’ |
| 11 | The seniors , managed jointly by County President Peter Woodward and Richard Morris and coached by Chelmsford 's Paul Morris , beat Lincolnshire 3–0 in the first round and Cambridgeshire 5–0 in the semi-finals . |
| 12 | If you prefer to enter the finished garment measurements only , ( taken from a diagram in a magazine for instance ) you can put these in the first column and just enter zero each time in the ease column . |
| 13 | We will assign any node j for which or is basic to the first generation and say that the parent of j is 1 , writing P(j) = 1 . |
| 14 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 15 | They charge 4 for the first hour and 3 for the next . |
| 16 | They had slightly the better of the first half but a poor pass to Sleightholme lost one chance and then Sleightholme could not touch down a useful kick by Maynard , Stabler getting there first . |
| 17 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 18 | The 13 headfuls of ideas they 've got show occasional but disturbing signs of driving them aimlessly away from what makes them so good in the first place and into acid rock tedium city . |
| 19 | A hundred thousand in the first year and three hundred thousand in the second and subsequent years . |
| 20 | ‘ In the first two years of a Liberal Democrat government we would produce 600,000 jobs , 400,000 in the first year and 200,000 in the second . |
| 21 | We were poor in the first half and slightly better in the second . |
| 22 | We were very poor in the first half and paid the price . ’ |
| 23 | In fact , the estimated weights which the individual attaches to these extra income receipts is negative in the first period and positive in the second period ( except in Model 3 , but insignificantly ) . |
| 24 | Come the tournament he certainly putted well enough , and we were there after a 70 in the first round and a shot behind Jack Nicklaus after the second round . |
| 25 | So reported earnings would be lower in the first year and higher in the remaining four years with the declining balance method compared with the straight-line method . |
| 26 | I think we 'd be er prepared to accept this at , what 's asked for is a feasibility study , no more than that in the first instance and I think we 'd be prepared to accept . |
| 27 | Relatives often seem to feel that they do not need to bring a contribution , unless , of course , you are young , living alone for the first time and being visited by your mother , in which case she will probably bring a month 's supply of food and wash up for you as well ! |
| 28 | His one-man show yesterday failed to prevent the Hammers moving to fourth in the First Division but it saved Pompey from embarrassment . |
| 29 | They never wavered in describing the issue as extremely important for their voting decision : 64 per cent called it extremely important in the first week and 63 per cent in the last . |
| 30 | Manor 's defence was kept busy in the first half and the Alton side held a slender 1–0 lead at the interval . |