Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] first [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 , the service had to compete for the hospital 's laundry contract for the first time and in 1993 , it will have to submit another tender . ’ |
| 2 | The Annamese mandarin looked at Joseph 's eager face for a moment , then his eyes lost their watchful look for the first time and he smiled . |
| 3 | The All Whites , staying on course for a First Division and cup double , were only 10–0 up at half-time with a stiff breeze behind them . |
| 4 | The North Region PGA brought an event to the Darlington municipal course for the first time and tournament controller Les Massey said : ‘ We ca n't fault this place . |
| 5 | Meeting Sien for the first time and getting to know her was like knowing ‘ a fellow creature as lonesome and unhappy as myself ’ , no more and no less . |
| 6 | Whipped a porn magazine out of his flight case after the first gin and tonic . |
| 7 | So the subjects had clearly realized this aspect of the dynamic solution between doing the experiment for the first time and for the second . |
| 8 | It expects a loss for the first quarter and the loss will be substantially larger than analyst estimates — the average forecast has been for a loss of two cents a share on turnover of $565m — a figure the company says is way too high . |
| 9 | When I tell you that , every year , 100,000 people in England and Wales suffer a stroke for the first time and that some of these may be unborn babies or small children , then I am sure that you will want to help . |
| 10 | The new accommodation means we are under one roof for the first time and this means communication between departments , a critical factor in my job , is improved tremendously . |
| 11 | Students intending to take a joint degree join either department for the first year and since requirements of two departments must be satisfied , joint degree students normally have a restricted choice of courses in first and second years . |
| 12 | Fourteen pound for the firs er twelve pound for the first half and fourteen for the second . |
| 13 | Two years ago , he took charge of the Elliott Sports Jets side who won the women 's trophy for the first time and , on Sunday , he will be plotting the downfall of Su Ragazzi in the men 's final . |
| 14 | He was a local lad and already a star in clubland , and I was a second-year apprentice comic visiting the north-east for the first time and decidedly wary of its reputation . |
| 15 | If we wish , we can establish one melody for the first verse and merely repeat it in the others , possibly varying some factor such as accompaniment , volume , colour , etc . |
| 16 | I commend the order to the House to afford continued statutory protection to the very small number of teachers taking up new contracts of employment during any hiatus between the current date of expiry of the 1987 Act and the coming into force of the first pay and conditions order under the 1991 Act . |
| 17 | The campaign for the Republican and Democratic Party presidential nominations began in earnest during February with the holding of the first caucuses and primary elections . |
| 18 | We could lead an evening or afternoon meeting on Street Children , shantytown life , organising for change , or the coming of the First Europeans and the consequences of the indigenous peoples . |
| 19 | I turned the boat into the first drift and bent down to pick up the rods . |
| 20 | Sheffield United continue their march up the first division and Ian Bryce in goal five minutes before time was good enough to beat Chelsea . |
| 21 | I told Bates straight out that I was the only man who had the vision and know-how to keep his club in the First Division and that for a reasonable salary , say 16K a year , I would be willing to quit Athletico . |
| 22 | The game finished 1-1 with Peter Shearer scoring for the league side in the first half and then with just 7 minutes to go , Town teenager Christer Warren , a Bournemouth boy would you believe , scored the equaliser . |
| 23 | Samuel Barber 's Violin Concerto dwells on the instrument 's lyrical potential , something which the Chinese violinist Hu Kun manages to a haunting effect in the first movement and the suspended-animation Andante . |
| 24 | His Scottish partner up front , Trevor Smith , was in the thick of the action in the first half and opened the scoring on 31 minutes . |
| 25 | Well le , shall we take a vote on the first word and then decide whether it 's a park , a sports field or a a sports park or whatever ? |
| 26 | Greaves was employed by Sir Henry Pierrepoint whose wife , Frances Cavendish , was sister of the first earl and cousin to Michael 's father . |
| 27 | Copy the last sentence of the first paragraph and insert it as a separate paragraph at the end of the task , one clear line space below the paragraph starting ‘ NOISE … ‘ |
| 28 | Workers were brought in from all of the Eglinton properties to repair the damage of the first day and to improve the condition of the lists . |
| 29 | The control experiments included both use of a non-immune serum as the first layer and staining with conjugate alone . |
| 30 | We will , over the lifetime of a Parliament , phase out the differential in child benefit between the first child and subsequent children ; reintroduce death and maternity grants ; increase the family premium for income support and family credit , and reform the system of cold-weather payments . |