Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The projects deriving from the first phase of the research programme cover topics like small firms , unemployment , career education in , and further education beyond , school , the agricultural sector in the economy , housing and the labour market .
2 Moed & Vriens found , in their study of inaccuracies in citations 146 , that the largest single cause of discrepancies was the method of dealing with compound names , such as van , van der , de , Mac , and hyphenated names ( some authorities cite under the first part , some under the second , some ignore the hyphen ) .
3 Moed & Vriens found , in their study of inaccuracies in citations , that the largest single cause of discrepancies was the method of dealing with compound names , such as van , van der , de , Mac , and hyphenated names ( some authorities cite under the first part , some under the second , some ignore the hyphen ) .
4 Hungary 's exports plunged in the first quarter of 1993 .
5 Though the Lions ' backs have the credentials and Winterbottom and Dean Richards have been in the heat of a Lions Test scrum , there are six forwards who will be experiencing a Lions Test for the first time .
6 Because of the way in which this relief is given , the managers would wish to " front load " the losses sustained into the first year of trading , which they may be able to achieve by incurring expenditure for which capital allowances are available .
7 Unfortunately heavy losses occurred during the First World War with all four being sunk .
8 The district general hospital ( DGH ) units carried through the first stage of devolution of services .
9 In at least two of the areas I visited the regional health authority and some of the first wave fundholders were wrangling over the savings accrued during the first year .
10 Ratings dropped during the first week of the revamped programme , but ITN now claims this trend has been reversed .
11 Hinde House was one of ten comprehensive schools approached in the first year with a view to the launching of a school/industry partnership .
12 He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity .
13 He paused , his blue eyes glinting with the first sign of malice he had shown .
14 Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and
15 Those schools selected for the first quality audit in mathematics or science have recently been asked to supply 12 pieces of work from across the entire year group reflecting the spread of the ability range .
16 The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood .
17 If in doubt , keep two provisional subjects going for the first half of the first term — and then drop the one that appeals to you the less .
18 However , the reformulation appeals to theoretical notions which the authors discuss in the first chapter of the book , and it is unlikely that what was said about mutual cognitive environments in the first chapter is accessible for use for the interpretation of a passage about style in the final chapter .
19 Comrades led 2–1 until the 79th minute , their two goals coming in the first half from David Eddis against one from a Dean Gordon own goal but United hit back late in the game .
20 Half an hour later , descending the stairs , she was startled to hear voices coming from the first floor .
21 This was a land where the pursuit of illusion possessed the artists ; where awkward tries at perspective were made , and revellers in scenes of feasting were shown sitting up on one elbow , on daybeds with legs disposed for the first time in recession .
22 The assassin 's blow threw him back against the wall , hitting it so hard he brought books tumbling from the shelves , but before the assassin 's fingers found his throat he delivered a punch to the man 's belly that must have touched some tender place , because the assault ceased , and the attacker let him go , his eyes fixed for the first time on Gentle 's face .
23 More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun .
24 But , of course , Dorothy knows in those particular circumstances it was not a risk — the mental parameters fixed by the first half of the lesson controlled the freedom of the second half — and any individual child who could not cope could turn it into a ‘ reporting to the boss at the manhole ’ game .
25 The seven other candidates eliminated in the first round included Mountaga Tall , leader of the National Committee for Democratic Initiative ( CNID ) , the second largest party in the National Assembly , with 11.41 per cent of the vote .
26 The candidates eliminated in the first round were Heide Schmidt , 43 , of the Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) , and Robert Jungk , 78 , the Green Alternative candidate .
27 Candidates eliminated in the first round included the current President , Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the PCT , and interim Prime Minister André Milongo .
28 Most examinees belong to the first class , most examiners to the third .
29 If reserves play in the first team they still charge first team prices .
30 erm if you go back to the nineteen thirties , for example , depression , love on the dole , deferral of marriage , potential husbands killed in the first World War , low birthrate , small families , below the level that would replace the population in future , and many of the Wartime and late War reports erm the Royal Commission on population , which reported in forty nine , suggested that population may stagnate , round about forty million plus , even decline to about thirty million .
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