Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move comes in the wake of the British Lions defeat in the first RU Test against the All Blacks . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Maintenance and improvement works have been carried out over the past few months resulting in the first Sunday train leaving at 5pm . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | In 1941 , the French Police cooperated in the first mass internments on French soil . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Hinde House was one of ten comprehensive schools approached in the first year with a view to the launching of a school/industry partnership . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Gone were the carefree , witty passages written in the first person , the conversational style , the caustic bitter comments . |
| 15 | The answer to such questions depends in the first place upon what we mean by ‘ syndrome ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In many cases the annual crops planted in the first few years are rapidly being replaced by pasture which itself is frequently proving to be uneconomic and environmentally detrimental . |
| 18 | In view of the complexity of the psycholinguistic abilities which contribute to normal language functioning , it is perhaps not surprising that attempts to explain how these abilities emerge in the first place and are orchestrated into the unified process which we recognise as language have met with only limited success . |
| 19 | Despite these promises there was no significant improvement in Peru 's human rights record in the first year of the new government . |
| 20 | It is important to realise that it is these eggs deposited in the first half of the grazing season from April to June , which give rise to the potentially dangerous populations of L3 from July to October . |
| 21 | Celtic had three players booked in the first 20 minutes to illustrate just how fired up they were . |
| 22 | Fifty-two points conceded in the First Test , 54 in the second . |
| 23 | The only significant leisure effect comes from the effect having receiving benefits disallowed in the first few weeks of the unemployment spell . |
| 24 | Although love between human beings has in the first place a physical basis , in that two people are physically attracted to each other , ultimately it is not physical but mental . |
| 25 | The teachers demonstrate and explain the progression from basic turns to parallel in the first video and the second covers various types of turn for steeper terrain . |
| 26 | The majority of these deaths occur in the first hour and it is important to realise that if early ventricular fibrillation is survived the ultimate outcome is unaffected . |
| 27 | More direct if under-stated evidence comes from the retrospective questions posed in the first official birth control enquiry in 1946 ( Lewis-Faning 1949 ) ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 28 | In fact , the defences and addictive attitudes described in the first chapter only illustrate the false ways in which we deal with ourselves . |
| 29 | At least seventy three percent of all foetuses aborted in the first trimester are male . |
| 30 | For these reasons , there is a massive drop-out rate , with only some one quarter of all pupils registered in the first year finishing their primary education . " |