Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This programme has been through the first round of application approvals which saw the Regional Council gain around £17,000 to capital and around £600,000 to revenue . |
| 2 | Its last rebuilding is believed to have been during the first quarter of the 19th century . |
| 3 | France 's diplomatic successes had made little impact on English opinion , and English military leadership was markedly weaker than it had been during the first phase of the war . |
| 4 | Now , however , having regard to what was learnt by C.N.L. 's counsel whilst sitting in court during the successful appeal , they are for the first time in a position to raise a plea of justification . |
| 5 | Furthermore , we should recall that in modern individuals ( and almost certainly also in the past ) internalized verbal commands and prohibitions are of the first significance in the acquisition of the superego and manifest this aspect of themselves in the auditory hallucinations of accusing and scorning voices so often found in paranoia . |
| 6 | Oxford United have their own ladies team this season … they 're in the first division of the National League and this week played their first game at the Manor ground … and the girls done well . |
| 7 | It is probable that plague remained a constant threat , even if it is less well recorded in contemporary writings than at an earlier date ; probably men were more inured to its presence than they had been in the first shock of 1348 . |
| 8 | In April Prime Minister Pavlov announced that compared with the first quarter of 1990 there had been in the first quarter of 1991 a 10 per cent fall in national income , a 5 per cent fall in industrial output and a 13 per cent fall in agricultural output . |
| 9 | We can specify a point by saying what its coordinates are in the first field of view |
| 10 | Manufacturers DMF Sportswear are in the first year of a three-year deal with Third Division Barnet , who have three weeks to come up with the cash or face High Court action . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ We are in the first stages of saturation coverage . |
| 12 | Should doctors always be so keen to offer abortion as the only solution to women who are in the first throes of disappointment and depression at the news that their baby is not genetically perfect ? |
| 13 | We are in the First Class with Alan Frame of the Express , and all the monkeys are in the back . |
| 14 | This phenomenon of mastery of the anal drive turns out to be of the first importance for pastoral peoples because , as I have demonstrated elsewhere , pastoral psychology is often based on the introjection of sadistic drives which would otherwise threaten the herds on which the pastoralist depends for his existence . |
| 15 | Sellars sadly does n't seem to be in the first team at Newcastle . |
| 16 | They should not be in the first rank of share prices to be marked down , but would nevertheless be most unlikely to buck the market trend . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm on the first flight to Milan in the morning . ’ |
| 18 | Oh I do n't , I just , I remember that er if you walked down er Road at night you 'd see him with his mortar board on and his curate by his side coming down to post the letters , and then when all these ladies were in Sammy shop one night being entertained by Sammy erm Father and his curate went by , and old Sammy turned round to the audience and said well if dressing up will get him anywhere they 'll be on the first row in heaven . |
| 19 | The CO 's office where he was learning the job of Assistant Adjutant happened to be on the first floor of an empty house in Cadogan Gardens . |
| 20 | Holbrecht advocated a mix of social classes in the same building ; his outline was for a single apartment to be on the first floor of a typical building ; for two apartments each on the Erdstock , the second storey and the third storey , and for three apartments on the fourth floor , as well as smaller flats on the ground floor and in the courtyard . |
| 21 | I 'll be on the first flight on Sunday . |
| 22 | It was very uncomfortable until firstly I started getting some of the programmes I had commissioned back , and secondly I saw on screen that some of them were going to be among the first successes of the Channel . |
| 23 | Branson was as awed as anyone could expect to be at the first sight of their own Jumbo Jet . |
| 24 | Types A1 and B1 are on the first floor with terrace , Types A2 and B2 are on the ground floor with patio . |
| 25 | If you are on the first field of an option and you press BACKSPACE , an error message is reported at the foot of the page . |
| 26 | We were there , too , as we have been on the first weekend of June in each of the past four years ; the roistering boys whose fever for drink and song has been jaded , ever so slightly , by contemplation of middle age and the fingering of indigestion tablets . |
| 27 | He was thankful that the lightweight suit and polo shirt had been on the first hanger to hand . |
| 28 | ( This is not the present ladies ' room but is believed to have been on the first floor of the main clubhouse where it was known to be in the 1940 's at least ) . |
| 29 | While Horsley had been cavorting about at Oxford , he had been on the first rung of an entirely different social ladder , as a solicitor 's clerk . |
| 30 | Because of the time differences across the globe , Australians are among the first people on Earth to herald the New Year . |