Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the foundation U , yo you 've got the option to start the teaching certificate in the first year . |
| 2 | The series moves from sentence/paragraph level in the first book , through whole text level in the second ; the third book presents real ( but slightly modified ) academic texts ; and finally , in the fourth book , genuine unsimplified texts are used . |
| 3 | The budget deficit in the first half of 1992 had reached 7.5 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) , rising sharply in July and August ; " substantial tightening of the budget policy " was to be expected . |
| 4 | Izvestiya of March 12 reported that officials were predicting a budget deficit in the first quarter of around 10 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) against the government 's target of 1 per cent . |
| 5 | Rossiskaya gazeta of May 14 carried budget plans approved by the Supreme Soviet and dated April 4 , which set the RF budget deficit in the first quarter of 1992 at Rbs. 67,500 million . |
| 6 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 7 | The energies released enable the young teacher to ‘ try again' on some of the preferred but unsuccessful teaching strategies of the first year . |
| 8 | It is possible to go on with the same therapist to deal with the problems which caused you to need the regression experience in the first place . |
| 9 | The X Business Group rates DEC third in X-terminal shipments for the first quarter of 1992 , after Network Computing Devices Inc and HP . |
| 10 | One of the five woodcut maps from the first edition of the Geneva Bible in English , printed at Geneva by Rouland Hall in 1560 . |
| 11 | Marcel , the first person narrator of the novel , meets the writer Bergotte for the first time . |
| 12 | I think I think it is a good idea though to erm oh right er to y'know kind of break it up a bit er particularly if at an early stage you 're intending to y'know kind of go through erm and get people to go through quite a lot of questions erm as a by way of er y'know kind of the first stages in in er developing this thing . |
| 13 | ‘ Heavens no , ’ agreed Julia , thinking about the Easter plans for the first time that evening . |
| 14 | Among the rugs is one of only four known Esari prayer rugs from the first half of the nineteenth century , which is expected to bring £6–8,000 ( $10–14,000 ) . |
| 15 | Boots The chemist are to open pharmacy concessions for the first time in seven JS branches in late July . |
| 16 | To examine the relation between birth weight and β cell function in the first degree relatives of non-insulin dependent diabetic subjects . |
| 17 | More recently , Twin Peaks ( 1990- ) may be less surprising in its unsettling mix of crime , pastiche and parody when it is recognized that its coauthor , Mark Frost , was also a script writer of the first Hill Street Blues series . |
| 18 | A further question may have arisen ; why is the fertile soil or the susceptibility present in the first place ? |
| 19 | Mr Thompson , 42 , of Chelmsford , Essex , was murdered in October in a hotel car park on the first day of his holiday . |
| 20 | Hewitt expects to raise between 500,000 and 600,000 balls for the ITF 's overseas aid programmes in the first year . |
| 21 | All this supposes that the persons mentioned want to go on the search trek in the first place . |
| 22 | Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt 's excellent book , The Bomber Command War Diaries tell us that on the night of 23/24 September Bomber Command for the first time concentrated its main bomber strength on one city — Berlin . |
| 23 | 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 " . |
| 24 | Now they could see that Jimmy was tugging a large metal filing cabinet with him , dragged from one of the side offices on the first floor . |
| 25 | ‘ From a planning point of view it would not have been a major worry , although only the force staging the original tie could police the second replay because all the liaison work for the first match would have been done . |
| 26 | The actual decision was given on the basis that applying s5 of the Partnership Act in the first case and the general law of agency in the second , the firms were liable on the undertakings because they were given by their partner/employee acting within the usual course of his business as a qualified solicitor . |
| 27 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 28 | turns , there , gets the header , Notts go in front , it was brilliantly made by and had the easiest of jobs and what a comeback it is , because Notts trailed by two in twenty minutes and now they lead three two against the side second in the first division table , who 've been run ragged in the second half , by a storming Notts comeback , brilliant , header . |
| 29 | It would not be statute law in the first instance , since it takes so long to get proposed statutes passed into law . |
| 30 | In this version of 1-2-3 you have to substitute the cell reference of the first cell in the corresponding field when you do this . |