Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Something with four solid walls the wo n't blow down in the first puff of wolf 's breath . |
| 32 | The " good years " of textile out-workers , for example , began before the war but lasted only over the first half of it . |
| 33 | Apparently on the first night of the opera , contrary to the usual customs , the audience insisted on hearing one of Bernasconi 's arias repeated , and many arias were applauded . |
| 34 | The working leg is thrust outwards on the first beat of a bar , heels click and stamp to accent the appropriate beats . |
| 35 | Speaking from his holiday home in Kennebunkport , President George Bush sought to distance himself from the controversy , stating that it was not " a matter for the president to be concerned about , especially on the first day of his vacation " . |
| 36 | The balance in Japan is also healthily positive , at 54% , only slightly down on the first quarter of the year . |
| 37 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 38 | The findings were drawn from the study of both cohorts but relate only to the first year of the course . |
| 39 | One ‘ sweetener ’ , deliberately leaked beforehand , is likely to be the widening of the 20 per cent income tax , which currently applies only to the first £2,000 of taxable income . |
| 40 | The agreement was a verbal agreement only on the first day of the new year and the two of them agreed to share profits equally . |
| 41 | But you can see , you can see already that the production rate is no where near good enough to meet the programme and if it 's only on the first part of the seventh floor , bearing in mind we 've got to be working on three floors at the same time , we 're only on the first part of the seventh floor and already we 've got overlaps on day Granted , it 's a major problem . |
| 42 | But you can see , you can see already that the production rate is no where near good enough to meet the programme and if it 's only on the first part of the seventh floor , bearing in mind we 've got to be working on three floors at the same time , we 're only on the first part of the seventh floor and already we 've got overlaps on day Granted , it 's a major problem . |
| 43 | It 's now available for only seven shows out of twenty seven in the next programme and only on the first night of each show and only at a cost of two pounds and these are the audience of tomorrow as I wrote to you Mr you neglect these people at your peril why 've you changed the scheme ? |
| 44 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 45 | You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night . |
| 46 | Peter Dutton , Corporate Recruitment Manager at Procter & Gamble 's UK head office in Newcastle , wrote : ‘ We do not use Headhunters at all , because we have a policy of recruiting only at the first level of management ( usually graduates direct from university ) and filling all more senior management positions by promotion from within . ’ |
| 47 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 48 | The repeating shape of the accompaniment in quavers is designed to recur only at the first beat of the seventh bar . |
| 49 | It 's not as huge as a Jeff Beck model , being just under an inch deep at the 12th fret , nor is it anywhere near as vee-shaped as a Clapton Strat , but it 's still a sizeable handful , except down by the first couple of frets where it 's a fair bit shallower , in good ‘ 59 fashion . |
| 50 | At a few selected points , the particles crash together head-on , generating energy of an intensity matched only by the first moments of the explosion physicists believe created the universe . |
| 51 | CHESTER 'S tuberculosis scare appears to be over as the first results of tests on 500 children were released yesterday . |
| 52 | Thus during the first half of this first term , students begin to develop their work as collectors and presenters of story and poetry material , and of becoming more expert in children 's fiction of every kind . |
| 53 | Instead , a message came through during the first part of the show that Sigourney loved Julian , and was asking specifically to be seated next to him . |
| 54 | Already during the first half of the second millennium B.C. Minoan smiths were fabricating gold jewellery from metal most probably imported from Egypt . |
| 55 | For some reason , shortly after the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist took its number out of the phone book , she started to forget to lisp . |
| 56 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 57 | Now aged 31 , Cardus is no longer in the first flush of youth . |
| 58 | Of course last year that did n't happen and last year hidden away in the first part of the er the budget papers was this cut in the amount of money going to each pupil erm in education in secondary school , so this year we are not doing that we 're going to meet the full cost of so in that sense the formula will be unchanged , and of course there 's growth er later in the budget and both primary and secondary schools in terms delegated budgets . |
| 59 | Britain is not in the first rank of energy-efficient nations , but , taking 1975 as 100 , the energy requirements backing each unit of GDP fell from 115 in 1970 to 81 in 1987 . |
| 60 | Rather , it was his inability to end the war which , already in the first months of the Russian campaign and ever more strongly during 1942 , began inexorably to undermine the image of the far-sighted , infallible , and well-intentioned Führer . |