Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when the wedding was over , the special train pulled out amidst a rainstorm , and there was an undignified scramble for seats in the first ordinary scheduled train into Windsor Station . |
| 2 | It is essential to the association of individuals in the first place and essential to ensure its continuation by sharing codes of behaviour . |
| 3 | A 10% cut in benefits in the first three months of the unemployment spell reduces the expected duration to 11.98 weeks for this particular individual.15 The elasticities are also slightly higher at the lower benefit levels . |
| 4 | Frequent use of search was often marked by a period of experimentation with a variety of firms in the first instance , followed by a settling down to regular work with a smaller number of firms with whom the client had achieved a modus vivendi . |
| 5 | The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee ran the national campaign for recruits in the first eighteen months of the war , through party rather than national channels . |
| 6 | ‘ Supposing that 's the case , what led you to the Skein of Geese in the first place ? ’ |
| 7 | Yet even by the standards of the day , it seems extraordinary that Joyce should have thought the British people at large would respond sympathetically to his shrill and truculent celebration of the fate of Jews in the first year of Hitler 's dictatorship . |
| 8 | What is significant is the extension since 1979 of the range of issues in the first category which the Conservative leadership regards as ‘ high politics ’ , that is , which it regards as being within its own sphere of decision-making . |
| 9 | Students have the opportunity to study a broad range of subjects in the first year including economics , law , accounting , information processing and statistics . |
| 10 | The 1936–37 season back home was Darling 's last , but it embraced three fine achievements at the MCG : centuries in the South Australia and Queensland matches , and a recall for the third Test match , in which Australia began their fightback after losses in the first two Tests . |
| 11 | All this raises the question of why the Reagan administration wants to quit the business of satellites in the first place . |
| 12 | Good garden compost will prevent the appearance of weeds in the first place , though badly-made material which has not heated up well will still have live weed seeds in it . |
| 13 | Lack of folic acid in women in the first part of pregnancy increases the risk of the baby developing spina bifida — a serious defect of the nervous system . |
| 14 | By a judicious selection of courses in the first two years students may apply for transfer to a different joint or single honours degree . |
| 15 | On March 7 hundreds of government employees had reportedly rioted in Salta , 1,600 km north-west of Buenos Aires , in protest at Menem 's plans to cut state spending , and thousands more participated in a nationwide strike on March 21 , an estimated 40,000 demonstrating in Buenos Aires for an end to privatization and for wage increases to compensate for an estimated 40 per cent rise in prices in the first two weeks of the month . |
| 16 | After the reduction in profits in the first half of the year , profits in the second half improved . |
| 17 | None of these articles referred to the activities of the Parents ' Rights Group , to the joblessness and homelessness that had caused lesbians and gays to seek support from councils in the first place , to the findings of the Gay Teenage Group survey about the intimidation and isolation of lesbian and gay teenagers in state schools , to the menace of fundamentalism — or to any other feature of our oppression . |
| 18 | It 's also packed with the mother 's antibodies against common things like flu , which help protect the baby from infections in the first few months of his life . |
| 19 | After all , he voted with his Government for the privatisation Bill which caused the sorry state of affairs in the first place . |
| 20 | In the first half we attacked the Kop end and hopes were high that Crewe would conceed a bagful of goals in the first half when Deane actually managed to score in the 17th minute . |
| 21 | The poem ends by asking if humans and the world were evolved so that they could be destroyed in war then why did the sun bother to give life to things in the first place as it all seems silly and pointless . |
| 22 | In the absence of another list of names in the first entrée , the harmonie rustique of the reçit and the hautbois of the first entrée may probably be construed as the same people . |
| 23 | Now we will suppose that the author has lighted on important new material or has had a significant number of errors in the first edition pointed out to him . |
| 24 | THE number of bankruptcies in the first half of the year soared by 60 per cent , while company failures rose by just over 8 per cent . |
| 25 | Tourism continued to do well in 1990 with the number of arrivals in the first nine months of 1990 5.5 per cent higher than in the corresponding period of 1989 . |
| 26 | Leays hit only one of a number of penalties in the first half and Rochford led 15–3 at the interval . |
| 27 | By preventing segregation of chromosomes in the first mitotic division , diploidy is restored , which leads to the development of a parthenogenetic female . |
| 28 | ’ Here this approach will be explored by investigating one particularly appropriate episode in the social history of the Second World War — the evacuation of schoolchildren in the first few months after September 1939 . |
| 29 | In view of the Chancellor 's desire to maintain flexibility , the Association proposes that be should neither increase nor revalorise excise duty on spirits in the first 1993 Budget . |
| 30 | O K , so those are the two factors that affect the allocation to units in the first four years . |