Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 2 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 3 | There will inevitably be some changes , some leads swapping about , some instant titles as yet unknown , but in the main , after my quick skim over the first four months , I have attempted to give you an overall picture of what will undoubtedly be a very busy year . |
| 4 | ‘ What might I not have done if I 'd had my own clubs for the first two rounds ? ’ |
| 5 | He was the largest Mbuna I had ever owned , a wild-caught fish measuring a good six inches and one of a ‘ pair ’ which arrived at my local shop from the first importation of the species into the UK . |
| 6 | I said that , as brewers never sell beer at a loss , why did not the brewers knock £30 or £40 off the price of a barrel to the tenants of their tied houses in the first place ? |
| 7 | The leisure group , which has a significant holding in Rank Xerox , has included a summary unaudited balance sheet in its interim report for the first time ( the report covers the 28 weeks ended 16 May 1992 ) . |
| 8 | Transworld Communications ( operator of independent radio stations ) devotes a page to an unaudited half year summary in its interim report for the first half of 1992 . |
| 9 | In its interim report for the first half of 1992 , the insurance group has changed its accounting policy to reflect the total investment return — including realised and unrealised gains arising on its shareholder and general insurance funds — in its consolidated p&l account . |
| 10 | In its interim report for the first half of 1992 , the European packaging manufacturer has included the gross preference share dividends on the UK redeemable preference shares in finance charges , rather than as a distribution out of the net profits after tax and minority interests . |
| 11 | OPENER Rod Latham completed his maiden Test century as New Zealand consolidated their strong position in the first Test against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo today . |
| 12 | And come to think of it why did n't he find himself another caddie after the first round ? ’ |
| 13 | Without exception , all ‘ groups ’ ( whether individual or group ) improved their average performance between the first and second repetitions . |
| 14 | At first glance , Lambeth 's 2.25% discount from its standard rate for the first 12 months of the loan looks a slightly better deal than Portman 's 2.0% discount for the same period . |
| 15 | Speelman and Timman had agreed a draw on Tuesday night in their adjourned game from the first round . |
| 16 | Viktor Gerashchenko , chairman of USSR Gosbank ( the Soviet central bank ) , called upon the EBRD to lift its restrictions on Soviet borrowing , which stipulated that the total volume of Soviet credits could not exceed its paid-in capital in the first three years . |
| 17 | The Foreign Secretary 's residence was entered from the park front , which had the reception rooms along its entire length on the first floor . |
| 18 | Meanwhile InterSpray struggled in the second leg , Rio to Hobart , to maintain the form that earned her second place in the first stage . |
| 19 | MILLWALL Football Club , which is playing only its second season in the First Division in its 104-year history , is to obtain a Stock Exchange listing . |
| 20 | He felt that the market reached its lowest point in the first half of last year and that a number of signs now pointed to returning confidence : a low unsold ( bi ) rate of 13% ( by value ) so far this year as compared to 21% for this time last year , together with stronger bidding in sales this year . |
| 21 | However , their leading woman for the first two seasons , June Brae , was a contemporary of Margot Fonteyn , returning to the stage after a break during the war . |
| 22 | Its authors point to the relative rarity of hysteria nowadays when compared with its frequent occurrence before the First World War : |
| 23 | Solihull ladies ' guild , formed in 1964 , was made into a branch in October last year , thus admitting men through its hallowed portals for the first time ! |
| 24 | Since factors incur their major costs in the first year of dealing with a new client and make their best returns the longer the relationship lasts this is an area they must continue to address . |
| 25 | This would help protect Jaguar from fluctuations in the dollar-sterling exchange rate — the principal factor behind the collapse in its pre-tax profits in the first half of the year to £1.2m . |
| 26 | Some local education authorities reorganised their primary schools on the first and middle school pattern recommended by Plowden ( eg Surrey , Isle of Wight , Suffolk ) , but the great majority continued to follow the established 5 — 7 , 7 — 11 pattern . |
| 27 | The year before that , 1946 , baseball allowed a black man into its major league for the first time . |
| 28 | The pre-eminent themes of political sociology in its formative period during the first half of the nineteenth century were the social consequences of the emergence of democracy as a form of government and the political significance of the development of social classes on the basis of industrial capitalism . |
| 29 | According to Bottomore ( 1979 ) the major themes of political sociology in its formative period in the first half of the nineteenth century were inspired by the beginnings of democracy as a form of government and the development of classes on the basis of industrial capitalism . |
| 30 | In March 1991 IEA issued its Oil Market Report , with an update of its supply-demand balance for the first quarter of that year . |