Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Search unemployment can be seen as part of the annual turnover of the job market — firms rid themselves of workers who have proved to be unproductive or unsatisfactory in some way , and workers quit jobs which have failed to meet their expectations or which were intended only as stop-gaps in the first place . |
| 2 | Both the Britons ' and the IFL literature contained lurid tales of alleged Jewish responsibility for crime , the white slave traffic , for casualties in the First World War , for corrupting public life and for financial malpractices and banking irregularity . |
| 3 | All this raises the question of why the Reagan administration wants to quit the business of satellites in the first place . |
| 4 | Similarly , responses to us in writing within six weeks of referral rose from 25% of cases in the first audit to 60% in the second . |
| 5 | Students have the opportunity to study a broad range of subjects in the first year including economics , law , accounting , information processing and statistics . |
| 6 | Whether or not his opinions actually percolated down to subordinate commanders many of them seemed to share his beliefs about keeping the French out , or at least , in an interesting reversal of roles in the First World War , treating France as an associated rather than an allied power . |
| 7 | Yet even by the standards of the day , it seems extraordinary that Joyce should have thought the British people at large would respond sympathetically to his shrill and truculent celebration of the fate of Jews in the first year of Hitler 's dictatorship . |
| 8 | In the first half we attacked the Kop end and hopes were high that Crewe would conceed a bagful of goals in the first half when Deane actually managed to score in the 17th minute . |
| 9 | Now we will suppose that the author has lighted on important new material or has had a significant number of errors in the first edition pointed out to him . |
| 10 | The committee recommended the convening of a national conference of delegates from various social , political and religious groupings and of individuals in the first half of 1991 . |
| 11 | It is essential to the association of individuals in the first place and essential to ensure its continuation by sharing codes of behaviour . |
| 12 | ‘ Supposing that 's the case , what led you to the Skein of Geese in the first place ? ’ |
| 13 | THE number of bankruptcies in the first half of the year soared by 60 per cent , while company failures rose by just over 8 per cent . |
| 14 | One can only understand how things are in terms of concepts in the first place , so in a sense the concepts came first since natural conditions only gain significance in terms of the way one had learned to see them . |
| 15 | Frequent use of search was often marked by a period of experimentation with a variety of firms in the first instance , followed by a settling down to regular work with a smaller number of firms with whom the client had achieved a modus vivendi . |
| 16 | Priority for all purchases is given first to local-authority and private tenants in the LDDC area and , second , to local-authority and private tenants in any part of the Dockland boroughs , their children and the children of tenants in the first category . |
| 17 | Another boxer in a hurry was Spennymoor superheavyweight Mark Hopper , who stopped Mark Rowe of Teams in the first round . |
| 18 | After all , he voted with his Government for the privatisation Bill which caused the sorry state of affairs in the first place . |
| 19 | We 've had a couple of stoppages in the first half , not the sort that will give us the nine minutes of added time we had at Highbury on Saturday , but certainly a minute or two this evening . |
| 20 | In the absence of another list of names in the first entrée , the harmonie rustique of the reçit and the hautbois of the first entrée may probably be construed as the same people . |
| 21 | 68% of respondents in the first survey thought televising would ‘ make MPs improve their behaviour ’ , but this declined to 48% after three months of the experiment . |
| 22 | William Boyd 's excellent survey of evacuation in Scotland showed that out of sixty-eight questionnaire returns giving details of journeys in the first wave , fully one-third spoke of their evacuees not arriving at their destinations until 5 p.m. or later ; and it included graphic descriptions of such journeys , including the testimony of one teacher evacuated from Glasgow to Aberdeenshire , whose journey was : |
| 23 | There had been plenty of evolutionists in the first half of the century , but the biologists among them had handled the subject with caution and some personal fear . |
| 24 | Yes , I think , of morals in the first century |
| 25 | What is significant is the extension since 1979 of the range of issues in the first category which the Conservative leadership regards as ‘ high politics ’ , that is , which it regards as being within its own sphere of decision-making . |
| 26 | It is argued that those , especially feminists , who stress the exploitation of women as carers have failed to take account of the significant numbers of men in the first category . |
| 27 | Good garden compost will prevent the appearance of weeds in the first place , though badly-made material which has not heated up well will still have live weed seeds in it . |
| 28 | Edis 's pictures — and that world — can be seen in Working of Victory : Images of Women in the First World War . |
| 29 | Leays hit only one of a number of penalties in the first half and Rochford led 15–3 at the interval . |
| 30 | Voters in these constituencies would choose between whichever two candidates had won the largest numbers of votes in the first round . |