Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no doubt that there will be special preparations and allowances made by police and spectators for the Marathon , in which I will be competing for the first time tomorrow . |
| 2 | SOUTH AFRICA , who will be competing for the first time , are to stage the 1995 Rugby World Cup . |
| 3 | my Lord I , I think it takes the view and probably not unreasonably that assuming good faith on the part of the disciplinary tribunal and assuming that there is er review by the courts , you will have complete objectivity and someone who has been excluded for a good reason , maybe fraud or something of that nature should not be competing in the first place , but he will not be excluded unreasonably and therefore if he was excluded unreasonably erm the fact of he 's exclusion could be anti competitive because it takes out of the market a player |
| 4 | He hopes to be challenging for the first team by Christmas . |
| 5 | But if the terminal repeats explain how wandering members of the Alu family might get into a chromosome , what can explain how they came to be wandering in the first place ? |
| 6 | IBM said that first quarter revenues were down slightly in the US — where the economy was perceived to be improving until the first set of statistics in April , and in Asia , while revenues from IBM 's European operations fell by 13.8% . |
| 7 | IBM said that first quarter revenues were down slightly in the US — where the economy was perceived to be improving until the first set of statistics in April , and in Asia , while revenues from IBM 's European operations fell by 13.8% . |
| 8 | The decline in British hedgerows may be slowing for the first time this century , thanks to schemes to subsidise hedge planting . |
| 9 | This year we shall be performing for the first time in Berne , Geneva , Luzern , Zurich and Prague . |
| 10 | Representatives from eastern Europe will be attending for the first time . |
| 11 | Some readers will have been growing roses for years , others may be starting for the first time from scratch , with no preconceived ideas , pattern or convention to adhere to , and a great many more will be at every stage in between . |
| 12 | Soon the fog of freedom is so thick that it is difficult to remember just what song they were supposed to be playing in the first place . |
| 13 | So you could not just be talking about the first premium . |
| 14 | So with forces families very often in those days , you might be delivering to the first floor . |
| 15 | ‘ Sorry , is it you or me , but one of us appears to be working in the first person . ’ |