Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hungary 's exports plunged in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The district general hospital ( DGH ) units carried through the first stage of devolution of services . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ratings dropped during the first week of the revamped programme , but ITN now claims this trend has been reversed . |
| 6 | Hinde House was one of ten comprehensive schools approached in the first year with a view to the launching of a school/industry partnership . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Candidates eliminated in the first round included the current President , Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the PCT , and interim Prime Minister André Milongo . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Given that this calculation mainly consists of system savings foregone in the first year of Sizewell 's operation , less capital charges saved , the £60 million figure seems surprisingly high , given the limited value of system savings in the first year of operation . |
| 17 | Their answers are more illuminating in this respect than the generalisation of the authors quoted in the first section of this paper . |
| 18 | By two mortgages dated 18 February 1985 and 25 October 1985 respectively , the sixth plaintiff entered into legal mortgages , charging specific assets to secure moneys owed to the first defendant by the second plaintiff and its subsidiaries . |
| 19 | On 17 July 1985 , the seventh plaintiff , and on 26 July 1983 and 17 July 1985 the eighth plaintiff , also entered into legal mortgages charging specific assets to secure moneys owed to the first defendant by the second plaintiff and its subsidiaries . |
| 20 | After all , our licence fee got the programmes made in the first place |
| 21 | As the two hellraisers met for the first time for the benefit of the world 's press , they exchanged jokes . |
| 22 | The five CODESA working groups met for the first time on Jan. 20 in Johannesburg . |
| 23 | Aggregate proceeds realised in the first half of 1992 from the sale amounted to C$83.2 million , yielding a profit of C$38 million . |
| 24 | By Article V of the Convention , the sultan promised to negotiate with the Serbs on their demands for freedom of worship ; the right to establish their own schools and printing presses ; the return of areas won during the first revolt and forcibly returned to Turkish rule in 1813 ; the right of Serbian merchants to trade freely throughout the Ottoman empire ; a prohibition on any new Turkish settlement outside the major towns ; and an increase in the powers of Serbian government . |
| 25 | the subject areas omitted in the first place ; |
| 26 | 8 Sunday settled this book and wrote letter — 24 plates done with the first ground in 32 days — I think when the days get long — one of these plates may be done in a day … |
| 27 | In the end the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Widgery , found for the publishers on the ground that , although confidentiality could be enforced in suitable cases , this was not a suitable case : the matters revealed in the first volume of the Diaries , being ten years old , were too stale to have any security aspect . |
| 28 | Walking into the ISDN User Show at Wembley , North London the other day , the first four stands belonged to communications magazines : cynics might see this as evidence that the technology is still at the hype and talk stage , but most exhibitors seemed pleased by the degree to which visitors ' questions had progressed past the ‘ what is ISDN anyway ’ stage to the ‘ how much does this box cost ’ phase ; some 900 visitors attended on the first day , the second seemed rather busier and at some of the conference sessions , notably British Telecommunications Plc 's ‘ where are we now ’ presentation , it was standing room only … |
| 29 | Erm the actual percentage of the ingredients used over the first year erm is about five percent for water , twenty three point six percent for the bottle , I 'll explain that later that 's quite high , the cap is four percent , one percent for the gassing , erm one percent for the case , two point seven percent for labour , four percent for transport , a general overhead would be about seventeen point one percent . |
| 30 | ‘ ( 4 ) Are the answers to questions ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) affected by the fact that the measure in question has been introduced with the object and effect of rendering a number of fishing vessels which immediately prior to the date of such measure coming into effect have been duly registered in and licensed to fish by the member state in question and which are to a substantial extent beneficially owned by nationals of another member state , resident and domiciled in that other member state , ineligible to fly the flag of the first member state with the result that they cease to be eligible to fish against the catch quotas allocated to the first member state under the Common Fisheries Policy unless ownership and management of the vessels are transferred to citizens of the first member state resident and domiciled therein in accordance with the provisions of the said measure ? |