Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having successfully completed the first year of the new Teachers ' Training Course the students have gone away to grapple with their holiday assignments . |
| 2 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 3 | , personnel secretary at Ipswich , has successfully completed the first stage of a three year course in personnel management at the Suffolk College . |
| 4 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 5 | On Jan. 25 , 1990 , Bhutto gave birth to a daughter ( thereby becoming the first head of government to give birth while in office ) ; the withdrawal of the Prime Minister from public life during the latter months of her pregnancy increased the aura of indecisiveness surrounding the government , particularly as the Cabinet had offered its resignation in mid-November ( see p. 37043 ) . |
| 6 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 7 | WALES chiefs Alan Davies and Robert Norster face a rare new headache tonight as they sit down to pick the first squad of an exciting new season . |
| 8 | So chaired the first part of the report I recommend that the structure as outlined erm , be approved and that the necessary recruitment take place as soon as possible . |
| 9 | Spreadbury , on his first trip to the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Bank-sponsored tournament , was the subject of an official protest after he inadvertently allowed the first half of a quarter-final match to overrun by 1½ minutes — a long way beyond the regulation seven minutes . |
| 10 | They had to run constantly to complete the first tapping of their three hundred and fifty trees in the five hours before ten o'clock . |
| 11 | At the foot of the card Survage scrawled : ‘ Happy New Year ’ , in Russian and underneath : ‘ Long live Nice : Long live the first night of the New Year ’ . |
| 12 | However , the majority of these had only finished the first level of secondary education — the fifth and sixth years following four years of primary school . |
| 13 | They dropped their kedge anchor 200 yards offshore and settled down to await the first wave of assault craft . |
| 14 | But , as Taylor shows , in the value-adding spectrum , they only comprise the first stage of a four-stage process . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Tom McKean was relieved to avoid one of his familiar acts of self-destruction as he successfully negotiated the first hurdle of his quest for gold in the 800m . |
| 16 | Once you have the sub-menu dropped down you can select from it using the cursor keys to move the highlight bar or by just typing the first letter of the option 's name . |
| 17 | We finally arrived in Calgary on the afternoon of the second day , thus inaugurating the first flight of the western Canada air mail service . |
| 18 | Thérèse no longer shared the first job of the day with her cousin . |
| 19 | When the result was officially declared at a general committee meeting of the Birkenhead party last night , Mr Field had already won the first round of the ballot in the individual members section with 159 votes against his two challengers , Mr Paul Davies , a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , who secured 75 votes and Militant supporter , Ms Kathy Wilson , with 48 votes . |
| 20 | SGS-Thomson Microelectronics BV will get its second capital injection of $500m from its backers by the end of June , its French state shareholder CEA-Industrie says : it already has the first payment of $250m each from France and Italy . |
| 21 | She might come away understanding the first part of the company 's title , but not the second . |
| 22 | DEVELOPERS are planning to clone an historic Liverpool terrace which has just undergone the first phase of a multi-million pound facelift . |
| 23 | you have already seen the first part of that intent . |
| 24 | I guess it 's probably just that he glide up to the second part of the diphthong , has been displaced so you 've just got the first part of it left , |
| 25 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 26 | Well I 'll just see the first part of Eastenders if I can cos I 've seen the second part . |
| 27 | The small events in my study and dining-room , the large events crowding your office , have already dictated the first necessity of our inquiry : to write our own terms of reference . |
| 28 | Now , in 1980 , having largely escaped the first round of cuts by the Tory government , the Housing Corporation , which is a major source of funding to housing associations and co-ops , has been cut too , leading to an ever worsening situation for those ineligible for council housing or unable to buy into the private market . |
| 29 | I have already instanced the first chapter of Simenon 's Maigret 's Pickpocket , which consists of no more than a description of Maigret riding to work on a bus , as being as gripping as any chase sequence , from the absolute accuracy of the writing and its complete economy . |
| 30 | Grace Carter , a DCR member , is pictured above wearing the first batch of badges as she chats to Mary Jordan about the idea . |