Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifteen horses were competing that year for a first prize in the Derby of £6450 . |
| 2 | Indeed , I have found that students and businessmen who are using this technique for the first time tend to get confused between the two axes . |
| 3 | There was no dramatic increase in the total volume of shipping using British ports over the first half of the eighteenth century , but there was a relative shift away from London to provincial ports . |
| 4 | The seventh five-year plan just ended may have had its ups and downs , producing high growth in the first half of the plan 's period , followed by inflation and then austerity in the second half , but overall it was a success : the economy grew by 7.5% a year , incomes for city-dwellers almost doubled and last year 's grain harvest was the biggest ever . |
| 5 | A board beside it bore a specification of the car and an outline of the services offered by Hazards Limited , who were sponsoring this prize for the first player to ace the hole . |
| 6 | My initial impression , on seeing this guitar for the first time , was that Rockwood have tried very hard to steer away from total Strat clone , whilst keeping all the essential ingredients pretty much to the fore . |
| 7 | Students from hot countries should include an additional amount to cover the costs of purchasing warm clothing in the first year of their studies . |
| 8 | Students from hot countries should include an additional amount to cover the costs of purchasing warm clothing in the first year of their studies . |
| 9 | There would again be an increase in the ability of a elements to overshadow c elements , but in addition the reduction of the number of c elements activated by A would mean that relatively few of them would be capable of acquiring associative strength in the first place . |
| 10 | Here , as in the comparable case of the beginnings of hunting , no traumatic consequences have previously been suspected ; but it is my view that the transition to cultivation from hunting and gathering was indeed traumatic , both socially and psychologically , and furthermore that the complex details of this secondary trauma , while recapitulating many elements of the first , also anticipated many later ones , including that at the root of our modern malaise . |
| 11 | ‘ Because my mother works in a hotel shop where they do n't really go a bundle on employing married women in the first place , so I do n't want to get her all into a fluster for nothing . |
| 12 | But what undermined him in office , and made him worth hearing out of it , was his surprise at becoming Prime Minister in the first place — Rab Butler shared that — so that , he agreed , he never quite suppressed a sense of the absurdity of his position . |
| 13 | Phillips continued to progress in the service , rising to a grade of surveying general examiner of the first class in 1853 . |
| 14 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 15 | This gives a grand total of 30 out of 36 errors which could be corrected , by using simple algorithms as a first attempt before going into more complicated algorithms which may be impractical . |
| 16 | They stood then for a moment in mutual silence and surprise , rather as Sophia and Rupert had stood on Ianthe 's doorstep , or like two strange cats meeting each other for the first time . |
| 17 | She picked up her bag and followed him out to his car , hating him for making her feel so gauche , and hating herself more for acting that way in the first place . |
| 18 | Say that 's population control investment in agricultural infrastructure and technology education and what 's causing this problem in the first place ? |
| 19 | The movement into private care has been accentuated by tight control of local authority expenditure at a time when numbers of people have been ‘ deinstitutionalised ’ from psychiatric and psycho-geriatric units , and when people from an ageing population have been seeking residential care for the first time . |
| 20 | Marco van Basten , the European Footballer of the Year , gave European champions Milan a timely boost by returning to the squad for training this week for the first time since a cartilage operation on 1 September . |
| 21 | In fact they were clearly entranced by Hannah — which , it has to be said , is par for the course with everyone meeting this lady for the first time . |
| 22 | In January and February , three seminars were held for centres that will be piloting general SVQs for the first time from next session . |
| 23 | Between July 14 and 22 , Foreign affairs Minister Adrian Nastase made official visits to Kazakhstan , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , Kirgizstan and Uzbekistan , establishing diplomatic relations with the first three . |
| 24 | Faldo powered into the lead in the race for the £366,000 top prize with a series of rapier thrusts producing three birdies in the first six holes on the tough Tryall course skirting the Caribbean . |
| 25 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 26 | This set back spurred United into action and they penned Rayners Lane into their own half for long periods , forcing eight corners in the first forty minutes of the game . |
| 27 | A protocol was signed , however , preserving economic ties into the first quarter of 1992 and with the aim of guaranteeing over that period deliveries of the equivalent of 70 per cent of first quarter deliveries in 1991 . |
| 28 | My final choice from last week 's ‘ Independent ’ was the example that provoked me into attempting this subject in the first place . |
| 29 | While they are carefully listed , there is not enough to get their flavour Franklin lived many lives : that of scientist investigating electrical phenomena for the first time , lobbyist for the new born United States in London , and gun runner for the infant |
| 30 | They should also be invited to meet others holding similar posts after the first six months to discuss common concerns . |