Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas . |
| 2 | We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment . |
| 3 | Left : With psychological jammed knots in place , the author goes for the first ring on Renaissance ( E2/3 5c ) , Cross Hill , Adrspatch ( photo Graeme Ettle ) . |
| 4 | Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences . |
| 5 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 6 | Beta testing starts during the first quarter of 1993 , with commercial availability expected by year-end . |
| 7 | Proudly proclaiming that this recording contains for the first time on one CD all of Bach 's Toccatas and Fugues ( including the Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV548 ) , it is indeed a well-stocked programme . |
| 8 | I accept that the law has from the first appearance of corporations , in the absence of any relevant statutory direction , considered the question of a corporation 's right to sue for defamation by reference to the nature of the corporation itself and the need for the corporation to protect its lawful activities and property . |
| 9 | Rejected reaffirmation of Labour 's former policy of unilaterally renouncing the use or possession of British nuclear weapons , and the ‘ unconditional removal of all nuclear weapons and nuclear bases from British soil and waters within the first parliament of the next Labour government ’ . |
| 10 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 11 | You do n't need a theological background to see there is a difference between the way that Paul writes in the first part of chapter 15 and in the second . |
| 12 | The monument stands on the first cross-roads in front of the Carmel Road entrance to West Cemetery . |
| 13 | I think , assume everything starts on the first beat of the bar as well . |
| 14 | When you press the Enter key , DOS looks at the first word in the string of characters you 've typed in and compares it to a list of command names stored in the file called COMMAND.COM . |
| 15 | When the new Parliament meets for the first time on Monday , April 27 , the first task facing MPs will be to choose a Speaker . |
| 16 | The working party meets for the first time in July when it will define the terms of reference of the study . |
| 17 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 18 | Conversely , it is also important to realise that if diarrhoea starts again or even occurs for the first time in a patient treated by gluten restriction , the patient should be investigated for colonic disorders , since the answer may not simply or necessarily rest with dietary lapses , an unresponsiveness phase , or lymphoma . |
| 19 | The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I. |
| 20 | The sophistication and range of this style of cooking grew , as Sheila describes in the first chapter of her book . |
| 21 | Deep slow wave sleep ( Stages 3 and 4 ) predominates in the first half of the night . |
| 22 | Within manufacture , the precise form of division depends in the first instance on the historical precursors of the capitalistic form of production in the given branch of industry — whether the ‘ manufacturer ’ ( a ) draws together previously separate trades into one workshop to produce a common product or ( b ) splits up a previously unified craft production process into its component tasks . |
| 23 | The answer to such questions depends in the first place upon what we mean by ‘ syndrome ’ . |
| 24 | So from the relationship that developed during that period we developed the collaboration which features in the first section of Passion . |
| 25 | is judged to be acceptable , because it can be ‘ completed ’ by squirted with the hose , and that exact phrase occurs in the first part of the sentence . |
| 26 | Flying a new type of glider is always fun , but it worries many inexperienced pilots : there is always an extra element of risk if an unexpected situation occurs on the first flight in an unfamiliar machine . |
| 27 | The change usually occurs on the first beat of a bar or phrase , which eliminates any fussiness when the footwork is intricate . |
| 28 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 29 | This appeal with leave of the judge , from a judgment of Morland J. given on 15 March 1991 , raises for the first time in the Court of Appeal the question whether a local authority which is a body corporate can sue for libel under the law of England and Wales . |
| 30 | Incomes Data Services , an employment research group , says there was a rise in the number of postponed pay increases during the first part of the year . |