Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 3 | Beta testing starts during the first quarter of 1993 , with commercial availability expected by year-end . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I think , assume everything starts on the first beat of the bar as well . |
| 9 | The sophistication and range of this style of cooking grew , as Sheila describes in the first chapter of her book . |
| 10 | Deep slow wave sleep ( Stages 3 and 4 ) predominates in the first half of the night . |
| 11 | So from the relationship that developed during that period we developed the collaboration which features in the first section of Passion . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The club meets on the first Wednesday of the month at . |
| 14 | The change usually occurs on the first beat of a bar or phrase , which eliminates any fussiness when the footwork is intricate . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In land animals , the transparent window at the front of the eye , the cornea , acts like the first element of a camera lens and bends or refracts the light entering the eye . |
| 17 | This section concentrates on the first part of scanning ; that is , the gathering of information . |
| 18 | By remembering that , application of these criteria for equilibrium to equation ( 8.33 ) leads to the first derivative of that equation while the second derivative is where the subscript c denotes critical conditions . |
| 19 | The glissando begins on the second beat , reaches its upward limit on the third , returns to its starting-point on the fourth , and ends on the first beat of the next bar . |
| 20 | There were plenty of thrills and spills as the first round of the East Senior knockout cup got underway . |
| 21 | In particular , examples have been found of periodic behaviour occurring at higher r than chaotic for the same values of b and P. Changes are not necessarily in the direction of greater randomness the further one goes from the first instability of steady solutions . |
| 22 | The following example comes from the interview with Sally Jordan , a factory worker and a dustman 's wife ; she belongs in the first group of working-class women whose early positive or non-committal response turns into predominantly negative feeling : |
| 23 | Gorbachev on Dec. 4 had announced to the USSR Supreme Soviet emergency plans to import basic foodstuffs to the value of 2,100 million roubles ( US$1,050 million at the new commercial exchange rate ) to ensure that supplies in the first quarter of 1991 were at the levels of the same period in 1990 . |
| 24 | On the first row , you knit the background stitches for the first row of the original pattern , on the second row you knit the pattern stitches for the first row of the original pattern ; row 3 is the pattern stitches for the second row of the original pattern and the fourth row the background stitches for the second row of the original pattern . |
| 25 | On the first row , you knit the background stitches for the first row of the original pattern , on the second row you knit the pattern stitches for the first row of the original pattern ; row 3 is the pattern stitches for the second row of the original pattern and the fourth row the background stitches for the second row of the original pattern . |
| 26 | Although Jacques retained his title of ‘ flutte du Roi ’ until his death ( it appears on the first page of his inventory , 1763 ) , this provides no clear indication of when he actually stopped performing , since musicians retained titles as property . |
| 27 | There are three different rates of income tax : the new 20 per cent rate introduced in the 1992 Budget which applies to the first £2,000 of your taxable income ; the 25 per cent basic rate tax which applies to the next slice of taxable income between £2,000 and £23,700 ; and the 40 per cent higher rate tax which is levied on all taxable income over £23,700 . |
| 28 | O'Connor refers to the first group of services as social investment and to the second as social consumption — a classification adopted by many other contemporary Marxists . |
| 29 | In normal speech , English has a rhythm because particular syllables are emphasised , making a pattern of stress : Normally , the stress falls on the first syllable of a word , but not always , as the examples above show . |
| 30 | ‘ We are working towards completing the study early next year , ’ said Ron Pattinson , ‘ which rounds off the first part of our overall survey into the Russian oil business . |