Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | WITH the two main floodlit tournaments in Junior Rugby just around the corner , many clubs are looking forward to the opportunity to sharpen their skills in preparation for the first batch of league matches . |
| 2 | We at the Bastille have been particularly blessed by his presence during the first concert of our season , in which his active participation and guidance were of invaluable help , especially for the recording of the Turangalîla-symphonie . |
| 3 | The budget for the first half of 1918 had been estimated at 17.6 milliard roubles expenditure , but revenue at only 2.8 milliard . |
| 4 | On Jan. 24 , the budget for the first quarter of 1992 , amounting to 420,500 million roubles , was adopted by the Supreme Soviet . |
| 5 | Debate began in the Sejm ( the lower house of parliament ) on Jan. 4 on the government 's provisional budget for the first quarter of 1992 , which included cuts planned by the previous administration of Jan Bielecki and continued reductions in state subsidies . |
| 6 | Little dabs of left brake counteracted the crosswind for the first couple of hundred yards , but above sixty knots the rudders became effective and she was easy to align just beside the centreline lights to spare us their jolting . |
| 7 | There are currently two systems installed at the Lower Shakespeare Drift with a further six due for installation during the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 8 | New telephone numbers have been issued to all staff , but a few main enquiry numbers will be retained and calls on the old numbers will be transferred to the new building for the first couple of months . |
| 9 | The progress during the first year of recovery will vary from one person to another but for most people this first year in any Fellowship is spent mainly in compliance : doing what is suggested by people more experienced in the Anonymous Fellowships , attending meetings , contributing to them and giving practical service in them , progressively working the 12 Steps with the guidance of a sponsor and generally learning to use the various suggested techniques of staying away from one 's primary addictive substance or behaviour and learning to deal with stressful situations in a more appropriate manner than previously . |
| 10 | The economy made good progress during the first half of 1990 , with GNP growth of 1.5 per cent , a reduction in the budget deficit , a noticeable improvement in the trade balance and a fall in inflation to 8 per cent from around 25 per cent in 1989 . |
| 11 | You should make excellent progress during the first week of the New Year . |
| 12 | Much attention will focus on the inclusion in the census for the first time of the self reported limiting , longstanding sickness item . |
| 13 | Yeltsin and Bush had also agreed in principle that Russian cosmonauts should fly aboard a US space shuttle and conduct joint space walks with US astronauts in October 1993 , and agreed to ( i ) a possible rendezvous and docking mission between the Mir and the US space shuttle in 1994 or 1995 ; ( ii ) possible US participation in a Russian robot mission to Mars ; ( iii ) joint exchange visits by US and Russian aerospace companies to investigate joint ventures and procurement opportunities ; and ( iv ) US support for the first launch of a US-built satellite aboard a Russian Proton rocket . |
| 14 | the sound of whose surname and its positioning at the start of the final stanza aurally and visually rhymes with ‘ Declines ’ which similarly ends a sentence as the first word of stanza six . |
| 15 | Even when these insects adopt a very different existence for the first part of their lives , they do not change their form very radically . |
| 16 | In 1980 , a group of young musicians met in the University for the first rehearsal of what has since become one of the country 's leading brass ensembles . |
| 17 | Having assured himself that he was all alone , he climbed from his bed , entered his dressing-gown and took himself down to the kitchen for the first breakfast of the day . |
| 18 | instead the Church preferred to use the Annunciation for the first day of the year , and this led to the adoption of 25 March , nine months before Christmas , although this choice was by no means universal . |
| 19 | One senior official with a ringside seat at the traumas of winter 1973–4 contemplated resignation during the first week of March so that he could tell the country that Heath was a serious man and had been a worthy prime minister . |
| 20 | Seedcorn money for the first round of fieldwork ( in 1983 ) was provided by the Economic and Social Research Council and by the Nuffield Foundation . |
| 21 | ANDREW SHERBORNE , the quiet man of British golf , shot a five-under-par 67 to lead the field after the first round of the Kronenbourg Open at Salo , near Verona , yesterday . |
| 22 | The Mazowiecki government had tendered its resignation after the first round of the presidential elections , but parliament had initially refused to accept it . |
| 23 | You will be given the name of your studies adviser during the first week of term . |
| 24 | Pham told delegates that there had been a rapid increase in export turnover during the first half of 1990 , but that the production of export goods was threatened by the major socio-economic changes in Eastern Europe , which had forced some countries to cancel contracts , and that " the dilatory payment and overdue debts to the export goods manufacturers fail to encourage the production of export goods " . |
| 25 | Having formed the first phrase and its complement as the first sentence of our theme , we must turn to the problem of what to do in the second sentence . |
| 26 | to service the service clan which , I do n't think will be controversial but erm I did just seat for the first part of report , the little bit about . |
| 27 | THE East Region 's top professional golfers will gather at Braintree golf club for the first Order of Merit event of the year this week . |
| 28 | On the negative side press reports indicated that the cost of the programme during the first half of 1990 had been a massive rise in unemployment ( from an official 6,000 at the end of 1989 to 568,000 ) ; a 30 per cent fall in output ; a 25 per cent drop in industrial sales in the first quarter ( in comparison with the same period in 1989 ) ; and an estimated 30 per cent drop in living standards , as real incomes slumped by around 35 per cent and 90 per cent of prices were freed ( following the abolition of subsidies ) to find their market level . |
| 29 | From these statements it is possible to deduce that Hizir Bey must have been appointed to the Sultan medrese during the first sultanate of Mehmed II ( 848–50/1444–6 ) and that Molla Arab can not therefore have begun his study with him , much less become anyone 's before the summer of 848/1444 . |
| 30 | Our informants had a well-articulated theory of the relation between ‘ work-in-school ’ and success in a life career that allowed them to see work-in-school as the first rung of their adult moral careers . |