Example sentences of "[art] [num] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 2 | The thirteen episodes from the first two series were constantly repeated , and Frank Spencer was kept alive by the mimicry of impersonators such as Mike Yarwood . |
| 3 | In the three decades before the First World War , the great house appears more and more often as a picture , with a dream-like , self-sufficient existence of its own . |
| 4 | Two of the three relegations from the First Division had already been determined , but the third relegation was still in contention . |
| 5 | The news for United 's vast following is less euphoric ; a subdued crowd of 26,698 , the backlash to the Derby defeat , saw them fail to add to the three goals of the first leg . |
| 6 | Cornelius observed that of the twenty-seven windows on the first floor , eight were open , with their blinds up , eight were closed with their blinds down , nine were closed , with their blinds up , one was open with its blind down and one was closed , had its blind halfway up and the light on . |
| 7 | Genoa never really looked like overcoming the 3–2 defecit from the first leg in Italy even when Iorio gave them the lead in the 39th minute . |
| 8 | The 15 most heavily indebted developing countries ( see p. 37017 ) in 1988 as a group increased the surplus of their merchandise exports over their imports to nearly dollars 28,000 million ; the dollar value of their exports rose above the 1981 peak for the first time since the onset of the Third-World debt service problem , although the GATT report pointed out that this trade performance needed to be seen against the background of rising interest charges and continued lack of fresh capital inflows . |
| 9 | The poem also progresses with the phrase , ‘ it is now ’ cutting off the second section from the ten lines of the first . |
| 10 | This pattern of parliamentary activity was rapidly altered ( though much of the descriptive language remained the same ) in the twenty-five years before the First World War . |
| 11 | The panels were decorated with the portraits of the twelve Marshals of the First Empire , in their splendid uniforms ; the tall windows were hung with red velvet draperies with golden fringes and they seemed but tiny openings in the enormous room . |
| 12 | The five quartets on the first CD ( K155–9 ) are in three movements , the others in four . |
| 13 | Neuchatel , who arrive in Glasgow this afternoon , have a slight doubt over striker Hossam Hossan who grabbed four of the five goals in the first leg , but missed his team 's weekend fixture with a foot injury . |
| 14 | I think it 's , our feelings are quite strong about this , in this contest that we 're having with the Town Hall , that er , having exposed the five percent in the first place , we have had particular innovation about five B , being articulated as well . |
| 15 | ‘ Broken back over the five years to the first rent review , the true rent equates to just £24 per sq ft 40pc less than actually reported . ’ |
| 16 | England will tour South Africa in the 1995-96 season for the first time in 30 years . |
| 17 | Even in India , where railway-building developed rapidly between the 1860s and 1880s , the crucial feeder lines most important to the exploitation of India 's resources were only built in the twenty years before the First World War . |
| 18 | The 15 homes in the first phase are all sold and occupied and now he has turned his attention to phase two , which will comprise 14 homes . |
| 19 | In total more than 60 companies have applied for 122 out of the 435 blocks in the first two stages of the 14th offshore licensing round — the biggest response for 20 years , according to energy minister Tim Eggar . |
| 20 | Apart from the 24–21 loss of the First Test , all the members tended to stack up against Ireland during their eight-match tour of New Zealand . |
| 21 | The main concrete results of the summit were ( i ) the signing of an agreement banning the production of chemical weapons ; ( ii ) a set of accords normalizing commercial relations between the two countries for the first time in 50 years ; and ( iii ) a provisional treaty on nuclear weapons . |
| 22 | If they are , then the system simply wo n't learn the two tasks in the first place but will consistently generate inappropriate responses . |
| 23 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 24 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 25 | The sales were organized separately in the two republics for the first time . |
| 26 | Abbotsfield and Carinish Court : Peter had heard the two names for the first time on the same evening in July 1964 . |
| 27 | One thing is certain : the full four-part double canon had to be composed before the composer could write the two parts of the first fifteen bars . ) |
| 28 | In the thirty years before the First War purists and feminists consistently argued that criminal law legislation was the key to improving the nation 's morals . |
| 29 | Of the thirty-four boys in the first sample , twenty-six had joined the Rowdies group directly by having friends already established within it . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , of the seven articles in the first issue , six are the work of English practitioners in micrographics . |