Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks . |
| 2 | Appearances : Tudor Owen for the officers in the first case , Edmund Lawson QC and Michael Egan for Mr Cherry , all instructed by Russell Jones & Walker ; Ann Goddard QC with Nicholas Ainley in the first case , and with Oliver Sells in the Cherry case , all instructed by the DPP ; James Holdsworth instructed by the Treasury Solicitor for both magistrates . |
| 3 | This is not necessarily as great as the increase in the liabilities of the target company related to the breach of warranty , particularly if the purchaser has only paid a nominal price for the shares in the first place . |
| 4 | After two postal rounds , ten teams survived to compete in the finals for the Cup and the Plate ( the competition for the runners-up in the first round ) . |
| 5 | At Europe 's largest indoor shopping centre , the MetroCentre , Gateshead , Tyne and Wear , more than 50,000 passed through the doors in the first hour , the first of 130,000 during the day . |
| 6 | Reminiscences of the trenches in the First World War or Stockton-upon-Tees in the twenties and thirties ( his favourite standbys ) did not fit the occasion . |
| 7 | Tolkien 's epic is more like a romantic reflection of pre-1914 British life and of those models of manly virtue he had once witnessed and cherished , it seems likely , in the grim camaraderie of the trenches in the First World War . |
| 8 | After all , it was the Budapest public who demanded the removal of the eye-sores in the first place . |
| 9 | The electoral success of the Kadets in the First Duma owed little to their largely unsuccessful attempts to attract the support of peasants and workers . |
| 10 | It was found that 599 ( 56 per cent ) were classifiable as ‘ new cases ’ , that is , as not being known to any of the agencies in the first survey , and having no known first contact date with an agency prior to April 1985 . |
| 11 | It was the licensing system and licensing controls , after all , which helped to foster Britain 's peculiar ‘ brewery tie ’ and concentrate pub ownership in the hands of the brewers in the first place ; and it was the same system which connived at and partly encouraged the modern contagion of open-plan pub designs . |
| 12 | In the remainder of the cases in the first two teams , either no service was offered , service was declined by the client , or the assessment was preempted in some way ( for example , by the client entering hospital ) . |
| 13 | According to Yoichiro Yoda , of the AI Sales Section of Nichimen Data , the systems will be targeted initially at research and development environments , and the company hopes to sell 50 to 60 of the machines in the first year . |
| 14 | There was a strong diagonal wind in favour of the Borderers in the first half and they turned round 12-3 ahead , although territorially the game was more even . |
| 15 | The rates in control practices were lower than those of the fundholders in the first phase , but by phase 2 the non-fundholders had increased their referral rates to the same level as the fundholders . |
| 16 | The first point to note , therefore , is that many of the disruptions in the first evacuation scheme , which produced so much distress in the children ( resulting , in particular , in bed-wetting ) were primarily the result of poor civil defence planning . |
| 17 | Unless we take the cuts on board , it 's gon na be a waste of time discussing the possibilities of the amalgamations in the first place . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) Give a simple description of the document : eg conveyance instead of indenture for old deeds , etc. ( 3 ) Give the names of the parties in the first abstracted deed , but where these recur ( as , for example , where a buyer becomes a seller , or where personal representatives become sellers ) give initials only , so that after the first deed the seller , etc , of an abstracted document will commonly be shown by initials and so indicate that there is an unbroken chain of title . |
| 19 | Four Australians , for example , above a road to Three Spurs and halfway Up a steep hillside , once knocked out most of the men in the first of two trucks passing below the patrol . |
| 20 | Cardiff castle has a history of more than 1900 years dating from the coming of the Romans in the first century . |
| 21 | COLONEL FRANK MORGAN , who has died aged 99 , served with the Imperial Camel Corps in the campaigns against the Turks in the First World War , and with the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second . |
| 22 | In the early thirteenth century Gerald of Wales had advocated the combined use of archers and knights ; it was precisely this combination which , as shown above , was to be employed to such good effect in defensive positions against the Scots in the first half of the fourteenth century , before being used , in broadly similar conditions , against the French at Crécy , Poitiers and , later , at Agincourt . |
| 23 | Dreams of Arab nationalism raised by the Arab revolt against the Ottomans in the First World War , and then turned instead into the reality of separate states , clearly supervised by the two major European victors . |
| 24 | And er she wanted er you know she has visions of us filling the streets of from to with banners waving and the we asked for no banners in the first rally we had back in October because we did n't want it to be seen as some thing that had you know big sort of take over and everybody you know the Communist Party and the language people and er all the different factions being able to wave their banners you know , We support the Blaenau quarry men . |
| 25 | Making contact with the families in the first instance was the most difficult problem . |
| 26 | Do you think the danger in positive discrimination is that er it 's implying that women ca n't compete on equal terms with the men in the first place ? |
| 27 | He was pretty confident about his ability to get into the rooms in the first place , Loretta noted . |
| 28 | Use these only as a last resort , since it is better to stop moisture getting into the walls in the first place . |
| 29 | Mozart 's perception and understanding of the female psyche is especially illuminating in this piece and Jane Leslie MacKenzie 's sad and tense characterisation of the Countess was extremely plausible , if lacking in the real sense of fun which the lady must have had in order to be drawn into the intrigues in the first place . |
| 30 | This kind of ‘ motivational congruence between practitioners and clients ’ was generally missing from the studies in the first wave of effectiveness research , they suggest ( p. 338 ) . |