Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Janet tested the therapist 's determination during the first week by threatening to take an overdose if a second telephone call was not accepted . |
| 2 | Ron Atkinson , the Sheffield Wednesday manager , yesterday promised the shareholders ' AGM that the team will not be relegated and will climb from the bottom of the First Division by Christmas . |
| 3 | By 1983 , the year of the publication of a first catalogue by Géza von Habsburg-Lothringen , their collection counted sixty-eight boxes . |
| 4 | A paying guest was killed when he tried to get to the bar on the first floor by an emergency staircase . |
| 5 | Grove , a 15-1 longshot , was dropped to the canvas in the first round by a crunching left hook but got up , and danced and jabbed his way to the distance against the hard-hitting Nelson . |
| 6 | Sir Bryan had made par on the first hole by sinking a long putt and his tail was up . |
| 7 | Parents of Calday Grange Grammar School students face a second ballot on opting out following a veto of the first vote by Education Secretary John Patten . |
| 8 | However , it is obviously preferable to avoid conflict in the first place by integrating traffic with the urban framework . |
| 9 | He achieved notoriety in the first final by turning up ten minutes late for the start . |
| 10 | The prize of £2,000 is awarded to the most outstanding synopsis of a first book by a young author in the field of archaeology , ethnography or ancient history . |
| 11 | When the idea of a Premier League was floated at Lancaster Gate a year ago , many of us welcomed what we were led to believe was a plan to revitalise the game , at club and international levels , with the replacement of the First Division by an 18-member competition under the direct control of the FA . |
| 12 | It was answered at the other end after the first ring by a friendly , but formal , female voice . |
| 13 | The under-21s are more even highly-fancied to retain the national title , which they won last year for the first time by beating Nottinghamshire in the final . |
| 14 | ( ii ) The minister of state in charge of the Prison Department ( not the Secretary of State himself ) then sets the date for the first review by the local review committee . |
| 15 | The court granted declarations to the following effect : ( a ) that the Secretary of State is not entitled in relation to prisoners serving discretionary life sentences to postpone consultation with the judiciary to a date later than the earliest possible date after the imposition of the sentence ; and ( b ) that in relation to all the applicants , the Secretary of State should fix the date of the first review by the local review committee and the Parole Board strictly in accordance with the period of detention recommended by the judiciary as necessary to meet the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 16 | ‘ In respect of all the applicants , a declaration that in carrying out his announced policy under and in relation to section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 in respect of persons serving sentences of life imprisonment imposed in the discretion of the trial judge , the Secretary of State for the Home Department , in determining for how long such a person ought to be detained for punitive purposes should fix the date of the first review by the local review committee and the Parole Board strictly in accordance with a period of detention ( that is to say , the notional determinate sentence less one-third remission ) recommended by the judiciary as necessary to meet the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 17 | ‘ the Secretary of State for the Home Department , in determining for how long … a person ought to be detained for punitive purposes , should fix the date of the first review by the local review committee and the Parole Board strictly in accordance with a period of detention … recommended by the judiciary as necessary to meet the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 18 | In future the advice of the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge was to be obtained immediately after sentence , whether the life sentence was mandatory or discretionary , but in the latter case the judicial view of the tariff was to determine the date of the first review by the Parole Board machinery . |
| 19 | Garvey 's clarification requests depend on a contingency pair analysis in which the second speaker comments on the utterance of the first speaker by asking for a measure of clarification . |
| 20 | The ecologists ' leader Brice Lalonde , who has called for a broad-based ‘ Democratic Party ’ , welcomed Mr Rocard 's speech as the first admission by a top Socialist that the party was finished . |