Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the first [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The chorus has got to happen within the first 30 seconds , it 's got to be memorable after the first play and it 's either got to make you feel reflective or happy . ’ |
| 2 | Newcastle are 12 points clear in the First Division and Keegan added : ‘ There have been massive changes here and we 're beginning to reap the rewards already . |
| 3 | Only these two , both mares , from a field of 34 , went clear in the first round and then Raymakers , who had scored earlier in the day on Rinnetou , had to go first against the clock . |
| 4 | The point is that regular-interval sampling makes every case dependent upon the first choice and so each individual unit does not have the same chance of being sampled . |
| 5 | We will assign any node j for which or is basic to the first generation and say that the parent of j is 1 , writing P(j) = 1 . |
| 6 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 7 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 8 | The 13 headfuls of ideas they 've got show occasional but disturbing signs of driving them aimlessly away from what makes them so good in the first place and into acid rock tedium city . |
| 9 | We were poor in the first half and slightly better in the second . |
| 10 | We were very poor in the first half and paid the price . ’ |
| 11 | In fact , the estimated weights which the individual attaches to these extra income receipts is negative in the first period and positive in the second period ( except in Model 3 , but insignificantly ) . |
| 12 | Relatives often seem to feel that they do not need to bring a contribution , unless , of course , you are young , living alone for the first time and being visited by your mother , in which case she will probably bring a month 's supply of food and wash up for you as well ! |
| 13 | They never wavered in describing the issue as extremely important for their voting decision : 64 per cent called it extremely important in the first week and 63 per cent in the last . |
| 14 | Manor 's defence was kept busy in the first half and the Alton side held a slender 1–0 lead at the interval . |
| 15 | City are currently bottom of the First Division and Kendall spoke realistically about the task ahead . |
| 16 | City are currently bottom of the First Division and Kendall spoke realistically about the task ahead . |
| 17 | The day he walked into the manager 's office Norwich were bottom of the First Division and relegation was more a probability than possibility . |
| 18 | They thought we misused the system when actually it was expensive in the first place and faulty , " said a middle-aged woman who lives on the estate . |
| 19 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 20 | Cirrus Logic Inc has reported fourth quarter net profits down 37.6% at $2.5m on turnover up 81.7% at $104.6m ; net profit for the year to March 31 rose 20.1% at $20.6m on turnover up 63.0% to $354.8m ; net per share , off 37.5% at $0.10 in the quarter , rose 19% to $0.81 in the year ; the comparisons are with figures that have been restated to reflect the acquisitions of Acumos Inc in the first quarter and Pacific Communications Sciences Inc in the fourth . |
| 21 | DEC expects to have production-quality Alpha PCs ready in the first quarter and will be sending them out to ISVs before the end-user version of Microsoft Corp Windows NT becomes available . |
| 22 | The bank says it expects its new purchase to break even in the first year and to be operating at a profit of $150m-200m a year over the following three years . |
| 23 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |