Example sentences of "[noun sg] after the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Mazowiecki government had tendered its resignation after the first round of the presidential elections , but parliament had initially refused to accept it . |
| 3 | The majority are fitted in quite neatly , but the addition of a sentence after the first quotation on page 34 makes the referent of " Another possibility " , which opens the next sentence , ambiguous . |
| 4 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
| 5 | The Act allowed couples to petition for divorce after the first anniversary of their marriage , instead of after three years as had been upheld previously . |
| 6 | South Africa 's David Frost and the Americans Scott Hoch and Tim Simpson scored five-under-par 67s yesterday to share the lead after the first round of the Million Dollar Challenge at Sun City , Bophuthatswana . |
| 7 | South Africa 's David Frost and the Americans Scott Hoch and Tim Simpson scored five-under-par 67s yesterday to share the lead after the first round of the Million Dollar Challenge at Sun City , Bophuthatswana . |
| 8 | NICK FALDO overcame the desert wind and heat to fire a three-under-par 69 for a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Million Dollar Challenge here yesterday . |
| 9 | DALE REID fired a 71 to lie two shots off the lead after the first round of the Heart Health Open in Melbourne yesterday . |
| 10 | PGA champion Nick Price posted five birdies in a six-hole stretch to take a one-shot lead after the first round in the Grand Slam of Golf at the PGA West yesterday . |
| 11 | They lead Bushbury , who have led for most of the season , 5–1 in their eight-game match after the first session of play . |
| 12 | As it was , the market drifted from the outset , leaving the FTSE after the first hour of trading down 0.6 at 2860.0 . |
| 13 | Launching the document , to be distributed to schools and organisations in the borough , Coun. Williams said : ‘ It is particularly appropriate that the day after the first anniversary of the completion of the highly successful and acclaimed Railside Revival something that has served as a model to the whole of the North-East we are unveiling the new environmental charter for Darlington next to the main line railway in the Rockwell nature conservation area . ’ |
| 14 | Coun Williams said : ‘ It is particularly appropriate that the day after the first anniversary of the successful Railside Revival , we are unveiling a new Environmental Charter . |
| 15 | A typical example is the 1978 Tremadoc Guidebook comment after the first ascent of Fingerlicker in 1975 , where alone in that guide it was pointed out that the route had only been climbed after two ‘ Yo-Yo 's ’ ( according to the 1975 definition of a Yo-Yo ) . |
| 16 | Could any one house be sufficiently interesting to fulfil this dual role after the first flush of passion passed ? |
| 17 | One week after the first raid on Exeter , the Germans returned in force , and devastated the centre of Exeter . |
| 18 | Earlier in the day the spokesman had forecast that talks of some form could take place this week after the first week of the strike produced nothing in the way of dialogue . |
| 19 | It was answered at the other end after the first ring by a friendly , but formal , female voice . |
| 20 | ‘ I am sad , ’ Michel Rocard , former prime minister and Socialist presidential candidate , said as he surveyed the scene of devastation after the first round of voting in the general election on Sunday night . |
| 21 | Wigan Athletic are 2–1 up on Stockport County after the first leg of the AutoGlass Trophy Northern final . |
| 22 | Damna " goes with " ( as a noun followed by its modifier ) , with ( as a modifier followed by its noun ) , sits in mid-line between the adroitly shuffled noun-phrases , and , the word that marks an emphatic turn in the poem , is slipped into focusing position after the first word of the new verse-sentence . |
| 23 | There was discussion after the first night between the Welsh interpreters , Rheinallt Williams and David Sheppard . |
| 24 | A generation after the first onset of the disease , the poll-tax levy of 1377 did provide such figures , but it is clearly impossible to use this to estimate the level of population before 1348 or indeed the scale of mortality in the first , or any of the intervening later , epidemics . |
| 25 | Amazingly Western Province are bottom of the table after the first round of the Currie Cup . |
| 26 | Yet such is the skill of the writing that you will forget the strangeness of the language after the first couple of paragraphs . |
| 27 | IF , AS predicted , a right-wing coalition looks set to sweep the Socialists from power after the first round of France 's parliamentary elections on Sunday , the most interesting statistic will probably be the number of people who failed to vote at all . |