Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can link HLCA payments ( including for the first time in the UK , for dairy cows ) to agreed stocking levels on a hectarage ( not headage ) basis . |
| 2 | Lake Gatun , into which the ships pass on a due southerly track after leaving the Caribbean and easing through the first set of locks , is an immense inland lake — though an artificial one created by the damming of the Chagres River . |
| 3 | The Literary Lionisers , having commanded their maids and valets , if they had them , to unpack , or if they had not , scurried through this tedious task themselves , were gathering for the first event of the week , the promenade around Dickens 's Broadstairs . |
| 4 | Apologizing for the first time for some of those tactics , he expressed regret over the " naked cruelty " of certain remarks directed at Dukakis . |
| 5 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | He hopes to be challenging for the first team by Christmas . |
| 7 | And the whole market — dominated by six firms including Argos and Great Universal Stores — is shrinking for the first time in years . |
| 8 | MAGAZINES are bidding for the first photos of five-day-old Louis , son of Princess Stephanie of Monaco , right . |
| 9 | Nesting for the first time in the delta since the 16th century , the flamingos had flown up the coast from the southern province of Malaga after finding their traditional nesting ground in the Fuente de Piedra lake had dried up after a prolonged drought . |
| 10 | However , the under 20 age group includes 18–19-year-old mothers whose children , under conditions of relatively low levels of overall infant mortality , have about the same low , or even lower , risk of dying during the first year of life as those born to women in the age group 25–29 years and face a much lower risk than those born to mothers below 18 years of age . |
| 11 | Two dark shapes flew overhead : Ace 's grenades , landing behind the first row of advancing black scarecrows . |
| 12 | The deception , trick or ruse that forms the one essential element in the interaction of the fabliau characters is most frequently an impromptu action , very commonly occurring in the first instance as an example of a native cunning attributed to women , an ingenuity in lying and deceit that women have . |
| 13 | ‘ Trading in the first quarter of our new financial year has been up to our expectations and is well ahead of the same period last year , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Because the pattern of trading in the first year of the market was so confined by technical and political constraints it would be unsafe to generalise from it . |
| 15 | Avoid over-spending in the first half of the year and set aside as much as you possibly can in the event of any tax demands or unexpected large financial outlays later . |
| 16 | It is also reported that in 10 WFS countries of Sub-Sahara Africa , the proportion overall of babies dying within the first month of life is 50 per cent higher and that post neonatal mortality is 25 per cent higher where the mother was under age 20 than where she was 20–29 at the time of the birth . |
| 17 | Returning to the first assumption of left idealism — the interpretation of the ideological nature of working-class crime — here we are presented with much greater difficulties . |
| 18 | Claudia lying in her hut listening for the first sounds of life . |
| 19 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 20 | Soviet military inspectors , acting for the first time under the CFE Treaty , completed inspections of French and UK military sites ( the latter in Germany ) on Sept. 20 and 21 [ for Soviet inspections under INF treaty see p. 38217 ] . |
| 21 | The Marines swarmed into the tunnel like bubbles disappearing down a plughole , Mortimer at their head , eyes bright , looking for the first sign of the opposition . |
| 22 | Hitch asked , looking for the first sign of their quarry . |
| 23 | Tubby was sitting up straight , shoulders back , head raised , looking for the first time in his visit like the confident soldier he had been . |
| 24 | The agenda for the Environment Committee , meeting for the first time since 1985 , included a comprehensive review of environmental policymaking in the past three decades . |
| 25 | ‘ My name 's Stirling , ’ he said , almost as though we were meeting for the first time outside his Club in London . |
| 26 | Meeting for the first time in Bonn in January ( see Nature 361 , 576 ; 1993 ) , the councils are trying to make EC-supported international research programmes more efficient and have scheduled a meeting in London in October to discuss the issue . |
| 27 | Meeting for the first time in private on Nov. 4 the Premier , Gen. Hau Pei-tsun , and legislators from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) , agreed to ease political confrontation in the Legislative Yuan or parliament , the scene of considerable violence in recent months [ or DPP filibustering attempts in legislature see p. 38531 ] . |
| 28 | A Creative and Performing Arts Panel , meeting for the first time in February of that year , became a Board , and from the outset was looking at proposals such as that from Middlesex Polytechnic for a BA and BA(Hons) in Performance Arts , an ambitious proposal which was greeted with reservations but encouragement , as was a proposal for such a degree in Creative Arts at Trent Polytechnic . |
| 29 | He paused , his blue eyes glinting with the first sign of malice he had shown . |
| 30 | He himself claimed to have been present at the battle of the Boyne , as a private soldier in King William 's army ; later he deserted from the Royal Regiment of Dragoons ( Scots Greys ) when serving under the first Duke of Marlborough [ q.v. ] in Flanders . |