Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , of course , the payment of dividend itself re-instates the 40% tax rate and defeats the tax motive for incorporating in the first place . |
| 2 | After struggling in the first half when playing into the wind , they made certain later ; then came the news that Newcastle Gosforth 's defeat at Bedford had given West Hartlepool promotion . |
| 3 | They are sure to be stiff after riding for the first time . ’ |
| 4 | Butcher , whose career looked over last season because of a knee injury , will be offered a one-year contract this week after starring for the First Division club in three pre-season friendlies . |
| 5 | They act out their role in a number of scenarios with an actor , such as meeting for the first time , attracting the man 's attention , and putting him off the trail . |
| 6 | Joint authorship in an author 's first paper may be justifiable on grounds of inexperience , but the Science Citation Index ( SCI ) policy of indexing under the first author only will fail to identify the output of Ph D research if the researcher is not named first . |
| 7 | However , the under 20 age group includes 18–19-year-old mothers whose children , under conditions of relatively low levels of overall infant mortality , have about the same low , or even lower , risk of dying during the first year of life as those born to women in the age group 25–29 years and face a much lower risk than those born to mothers below 18 years of age . |
| 8 | The likelihood of dying in the first year is increased by no more than twofold . |
| 9 | Because the pattern of trading in the first year of the market was so confined by technical and political constraints it would be unsafe to generalise from it . |
| 10 | The clerk is required to make the application available for inspection during normal office hours by members of the public from the date of lodging until the first day of the meeting at which it is to be considered ( subs . |
| 11 | But despite leading after the first round with a 71 he failed to make the four-round cut . |
| 12 | ‘ I have given up hope of racing in the first round at Snetterton , later this month , ’ he admitted . |
| 13 | The first — bad language — demonstrates the value of ignoring as a first line of defence . |
| 14 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |
| 15 | Reading Neale 's articles in the immediate context of teaching for the first time a course dangerously titled , ‘ Television Theory ’ ( is there such a thing ? ) , |
| 16 | She could recall the excitement of spending for the first time money she had actually earned . |
| 17 | In three rounds of voting on the first day of the two-day congress held in Gdansk , Krzaklewski emerged as winner from a field of seven candidates . |
| 18 | If you only want the bloody music , whe I , what 's the point of taping in the first place ! |
| 19 | He might have insisted , ‘ You can never recreate the feeling of winning for the first time , ’ but his palms were sweating with anticipation as the tapes went up . |
| 20 | ‘ But I wo n't know how bad the damage is until I see the physio tomorrow , and then I may have an idea if I have a chance of playing in the first league game . ’ |
| 21 | It is all too easy under the euphoric conditions of a degree congregation to minimise the physical discomfort , the mental struggles , the times of desperation , the sheer hard work that are a part of working for a first degree . |
| 22 | Civil war probably halted the work , with the result that 20th century tourists can still stumble on the stone axes where they were lain , and can study the progress of carving from the first outlines to the almost completed megalith ready to slide down from this rocky womb . |
| 23 | Finally , with ‘ Do n't walk on the wet edge , you 'll get a verruca ’ ringing in my ears , and ‘ Make sure your hair is BONE dry before you go out into the cold ’ ringing in my brain , we would lay siege to the fish-and-chip shop which was my main reason for going in the first place . |
| 24 | Agnes Jones 's intense religious fervour , which had led her into nursing in the first place , caused Florence Nightingale some anxiety . |
| 25 | With trading in the first quarter similar to that of the second half of last year , the company is continuing to exercise tight control of the business . |
| 26 | J.S. When someone who has cancer is finally dying , that 's one thing , but many families go into mourning at the first diagnosis as a form of disavowing their own pain and fears . |
| 27 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
| 28 | Blackwell Retail , which used to produce its own catalogue , broke with tradition this year and took Books for Giving for the first time . |
| 29 | Three methods were being tried : A benign substance called Hot Foot Gel painted on the top of transformers and similar equipment to produce a ‘ sinking ’ feeling for the Hoodies when they try to land ; Plastic strips with irregular plastic spikes fixed to the top of equipment to discourage the birds from landing in the first place ; Non-working poles incorporating ‘ alternative nesting pans ’ were erected at selected sites to encourage the crows to use them instead . |
| 30 | To prevent the reactions from occurring in the first place , filtered blood has to be used from the very first transfusion and 99% of white cells have to be removed . |