Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] [prep] the first " 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 | Only with regard to the first has there been even limited success . |
| 3 | Some of this research suggests that in certain cases , for example the bauxite and aluminium industry , the global disposition of power is still very much in favour of the First World TNCs , while in other cases , for example petroleum and perhaps copper , the balance of power has shifted in recent decades , and the First World TNCs have to be content with a smaller share of the revenues . |
| 4 | The international flavour of our work was much in evidence at the first Johns Hopkins ' International Fellow Inthralenthropy Conference held in London in July . |
| 5 | ‘ Sure my music is techno-based , ’ says the breathy jazz-house diva from Glasgow , ‘ but the house and rave scenes owed much to jazz in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | Chepstow is unusual among British castles in that it was built largely of stone from the first with no primary timber phase . |
| 7 | Young people away from home for the first time also have to find the resources within themselves to create a pattern of living . |
| 8 | If you 're away from home for the first time , you may well feel lonely and unhappy — a major contributory factor in student depression and withdrawal from college . |
| 9 | ‘ To have his daughter run away from home in the first place had been a bitter blow . |
| 10 | He said that it would proceed broadly in line with the first phase , begun in 1991 [ see p. 38479 ] . |
| 11 | TOTTENHAM keep faith with England youth international goalkeeper Ian Walker when they travel to Notts County tonight in search of the first of two wins which Peter Shreeves , their manager , believes will confirm their First Division status . |
| 12 | In the first movement the piano suddenly reaches high up in its register to remote regions , rather like Rachmaninov during the first movement of his Fourth Concerto . |
| 13 | Gregory , clearly intent on revenge for the league loss , was always in command in the first two games , but did trail 1-6 and then 7-12 in the third . |
| 14 | He dictated to her many of the hymns that are still in use by the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist — many of whose tunes are exactly the same — bar one or two notes — as the ones the real John Wesley cobbled together in the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | This test should be repeated once per hour after the first full hour of rainfall . |
| 16 | I will be going home on Monday after the first Test . |
| 17 | This was forcibly brought home to Churchill at the first of the conferences attended by Stalin as well as Roosevelt . |
| 18 | It was brought home to Charles for the first time how much of a strain the last weeks must have been for a girl of her age . |
| 19 | As they passed him , he looked directly at Midnight for the first time and said with genuine feeling : ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 20 | The children would be taken straight off Everest at the first sign of any altitude sickness or ill effects , Ms Hargreaves stressed . |
| 21 | Finished Cattle : Throughputs of finished cattle increased in England and Wales while marketings fell slightly in Scotland during the first four days of the week commencing 26 October . |
| 22 | Norwich City and Swindon 's tie at Carrow Road was also without goals in the first half , but Swindon 's Lorenzo was given his marching orders . |
| 23 | Within the Warwick structure students have the possibility of learning another language intensively from scratch in the first year , so they can read straightforward literary texts at the end of it . |
| 24 | She was conscious only that she was now in Rome for the first time in her life . |
| 25 | By the late 1920s the nationalist government had achieved tariff autonomy and an agreement in principle to give up extraterritoriality , yet enclaves of foreign settlers , foreign interests and foreign troops ( nominally for protection of the first two ) remained . |
| 26 | Re Julian Clary ‘ pictured here without make-up for the first time ’ ( FACE 25 ) . |
| 27 | Quite different in feel are the sculptures on show until the end of the month at the Beaubourg gallery : two large groups of figures executed by the painter Pierre Klossowski , here on show for the first time , entitled ‘ Roberte aux barres parallèles ’ and ‘ Monsieur de Max et Mademoiselle Glissant ’ , portrayed in the roles of Diana and Actaeon . |
| 28 | The first mention of £100 clearly demands an ‘ at least ’ interpretation ; what Arthur has is ‘ exactly ’ £100 ; one might therefore not expect the it of the second sentence to be able to refer anaphorically to £100 in the first sentence without antagonism . |
| 29 | There was a heady scent of rosemary and thyme in the air , and she breathed it in , feeling strangely at peace for the first time in as long as she could remember . |
| 30 | And er I think in the junior school , it was in the juniors you did n't get punishment there as children in the first school , you stood in a corner , that was your punishment . |