Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Why was this baby kidnapped in the first place ? ’ |
| 6 | I refer to the rapid decline of the use of walnut in English furniture making in the first half of the 18th century . |
| 7 | Britain 's real GDP fell in the first quarter , the third drop in a row , leaving it 2.5% down on a year ago . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Most cases ( 63% ) of chronic diarrhoea occurred in the first two years of life . |
| 12 | ( 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 . ) |
| 13 | Total business declined in the first quarter , although at a slower rate than at any time over the past year . |
| 14 | We were never meant to fall for Satan but despite the poet 's efforts to make sure we do n't , we can not forget the magnificent figure encountered in the first two books . |
| 15 | is judged to be acceptable , because it can be ‘ completed ’ by squirted with the hose , and that exact phrase occurs in the first part of the sentence . |
| 16 | As in many other countries , popular demands for the introduction of multiparty democracy grew in the first half of 1990 . |
| 17 | The feudal bond established in the first place a special relationship between the lord and a man whom we should call a cavalry officer , whom they called a vassal . |
| 18 | Mr Runciman said the first warning of problems came in August when it was realised that a major contract expected in the first half of the financial year was not going to materialise . |
| 19 | J.W.B. Douglas ( 1973 ) found that children who have no stressful event reported in the first four years of life ( especially the third and fourth ) are much less likely to wet their beds than children who have experienced these events . |
| 20 | For the empirical evidence discussed in the first section of this chapter led to the conclusion that habituation and latent inhibition are subserved by different mechanisms ; it follows that a theory based on the assumption of a common mechanism must be wrong in one way or another ; the fact that Wagner 's theory is inadequate as an account of habituation provides no reason to reject its explanation for latent inhibition . |
| 21 | The second special factor has been the role played by the Murid Brotherhood , an Islamic movement founded in the first decade of the twentieth century by Amadu Bamba , which has played a key political role in delivering support first for the French colonial authorities and later for the governments of independent Senegal . |
| 22 | French may be studied at Edinburgh not only at all levels of MA(General) and MA ( General Honours ) but as a single honours subject ( with a secondary subject taken in the first two years ) ; or as the major or minor subject in a wide variety of joint degrees , where it is combined with another modern European language , or with one of a number of Arts Faculty subjects , or even with subjects ( Business Studies and Law ) from other faculties . |
| 23 | Clinical deterioration occurred in the first three months of treatment in seven cases . |
| 24 | Sedgemore is the only coalminer playing in the First Division of the Heineken League . |
| 25 | The only casualty came in the first week after the ceasefire last August . |
| 26 | Who scored Charlton 's first goal on their return to The Valley is a logical sequel to the original poser : Who was the first player to score in the first live televised game in England ? |
| 27 | Revised GDP figures show that growth slowed in the first quarter of 1993 to an annual rate of only 0.9% , down from 4.7% in the previous quarter . |
| 28 | For a £1 ‘ Each Way ’ bet , you stake £2. £1 of this goes on the same horse to win and the other £1 goes on the same horse to finish in the first three or four places , depending on how many runners there are in the race . |
| 29 | But because they are so efficient at tempting big barbel to bite in the first place I keep trying different ways of fishing with them to try to overcome the problem . |
| 30 | Any reason given in the first couple of stanzas . |