Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun sg] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rozario looking for the first flick on as you say . |
| 2 | The evidence shows that in many cases the minister of state has set a date for the first review later than would have been the case if he had adopted the views expressed by the judiciary . |
| 3 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | There was a heady scent of rosemary and thyme in the air , and she breathed it in , feeling strangely at peace for the first time in as long as she could remember . |
| 5 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 6 | MIKE Watkinson 's pick ‘ n mix deliveries brought him ten wickets in a match for the first time yesterday as Lancashire thrashed Warwickshire by an innings and 25 runs at Edgbaston . |
| 7 | Many were , indeed , buried during the Hannibalic War or the civil wars after 49BC , when much of the fighting took place in Italy , but many other hoards were buried at times during the first century BC when there was no fighting there . |
| 8 | As anticipated , London W1-based software systems and consultancy Logica Plc avoided heavy losses but failed to ‘ bounce back ’ in a big way during the first half mainly because of its patchy performance . |
| 9 | Monthly mailings are no use at all , and ideas are needed in the first instance rather than completed material . |
| 10 | The Dutch government is introducing tax incentives for companies which buy electric vehicles : they will be allowed to depreciate them faster than conventional vehicles , setting the entire cost against tax in the first year rather than spreading it over five years . |
| 11 | In Dundee in the first year more than 2,000 students applied to the access fund and more than £300,000 was allocated to them . |
| 12 | More than 50,000 passengers used Braathens services in the first year more than double the airline 's predictions . |
| 13 | well I suppose their motto is , she had a C D ten on her driving licence , I suppose she should n't of had it in the first place so if she had n't of had it , he would n't of got it ! |
| 14 | remember how it was in the first place so if you cut four in half , remember four |
| 15 | Perhaps physical geography has been overtly concerned with the parallel to the first law rather than proceeding to the equivalent of the other three ! |
| 16 | And then do it on the first time well if he wanted , he do n't have to go . |
| 17 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 18 | Turning a quarter circle away from the mosque towards the setting sun , through the early evening heat haze I could see the distant silhouette of the Qutab Minar , the tower of victory built by the first Sultan immediately after he had driven the Hindus from Delhi in 1192 . |