Example sentences of "of [noun sg] in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's no more astonishing than was the growth of industrialisation in the first place . |
| 2 | We 've seen that with the City technology colleges , which are nobody talks about , surprisingly enough , when we 've discovered that actually industry is n't remotely interested in them , and of course in the first year of an opted out school one might see a bit of palm crossing with silver . |
| 3 | ‘ A share is the interest of a shareholder in the company measured by a sum of money , for the purpose of liability in the first place , and of interest in the second , but also consisting of a series of mutual covenants entered into by all the shareholders inter se in accordance with [ section 14 ] . |
| 4 | BERNHARD LANGER , his golf as meticulous as his preparation , added the virtue of patience in the first round of the Masters at Augusta National yesterday . |
| 5 | Other cases have established the principle that a stronger case is needed to justify action to bring about the discontinuance of a use than would be needed to warrant a refusal of permission in the first instance . |
| 6 | For glutamine the rate of metabolism in the first hour was 5.1 ( 1.1 ) nmol/µg protein , 4.6 ( 2.2 ) nmol/h/ µg protein over two hours , and 4.3 ( 1.0 ) over three hours ( p<0.0001 for linearity test ) . |
| 7 | ‘ of innocence in the first degree . ’ |
| 8 | Saints led 8-6 at half-time but a lapse of concentration in the first minute of the second half , when Kiwi loose forward Tawera Nikau put centre Tony Smith through the gap for Cas ' match-winning try , proved the turning point . |
| 9 | Reagan himself claimed that the SDI was defensive in character , since it was designed to dispose of nuclear weapons before they reached their target , and that it was in any event a programme of research in the first instance . |
| 10 | Judith Bailey 's firm , clear beat led perhaps to an unduly deliberate tempo and heaviness of phrasing in the first movement of Beethoven 's Emperor Concerto and narrowly missed coinciding with the soloist at a few important junctions . |
| 11 | It remains highly questionable why such a sensational and unrealistic play should be thought worthy of attention in the first place , but this is perhaps indicative of attitudes within the theatre that mental handicap is a good basis for plays written by writers who have no understanding of mental handicap but view it as a subject of horror around which some dramatic scenario can be created . |
| 12 | The profits to be made out of wine in the first half of the century encouraged substantial farmers to let out their outlying fields , landowners and municipalities their hitherto unproductive wastes , on rabassa morta — a lease of land based on the life of the vine and intended to bring bad land into cultivation . |
| 13 | A U-boat captain of distinction in the First World War , he had headed the Abwehr since 1935 and despite being a loyal German had always been unhappy with National Socialism . |
| 14 | Mr Gonzalez managed to win a vote of confidence in the first round only with the support of a Canary Islands deputy who is widely regarded as a parliamentary spokesman and lobbyist for the Tenerife banana planters . |
| 15 | Mr Gonzalez managed to win a vote of confidence in the first round only with the support of a Canary Islands deputy who is widely regarded as a parliamentary spokesman and lobbyist for the Tenerife banana planters . |
| 16 | In other words , the very things that led to the development of the laws of war in the first place are still with us . |
| 17 | Authors of A Secret World of Sex with a history of parenthood in the first half of the century . |
| 18 | A good performance in later years means the sacrifice of bloom in the first year from planting . |
| 19 | This will remove any possibility of bloom in the first year , but it will concentrate the plant 's mind on good long stems which will need tying in to a support like a pergola or arch to show next year 's bloom to best advantage . |
| 20 | Turning to , turning to entertainment and media investments er , it was a very tough year for the Tussaud group and starting with the er , Gulf War er , and erm , the only Tussaud business that , that does a lot of business in the first quarter is erm , Marylebone Road and you may remember that the Gulf War caused foreign tourists to stop coming to London and er , also erm , British tourists stopped coming to London and during that time attendances were actually twenty five percent down , so the recovery from there is , has been very good . |
| 21 | The confusion of person in the first sentence is understandable as the contract was written out in Old George 's hand ; and as the sole contracting party on one side it was easier for him to write my than the more impersonal , if more accurate , the master 's or some other third person equivalent . |
| 22 | With the exception of French , study of all of the languages described below may be begun in Edinburgh , in specially-planned courses ( designated 1A courses ) that enable the student to reach an advanced level of proficiency in the first year . |
| 23 | The investigators have begun a follow-up study of eight babies from the age of 2 months to establish the pattern of development in the first year of life . |
| 24 | If it spins out of control in the first half of the period , the batteries could run down and put it beyond recovery , says Alan Harris , a ROSAT physicist based in Munich . |
| 25 | I can not understand why we were issued with a single piece of plastic in the first place , unless it was to save you money , since there was certainly no reduction for us . |
| 26 | In the worst of conditions , Gloucester were desperate to win and they made sure of victory in the first half , when Martin Roberts kicked them into a 6-0 lead with 2 penalties . |
| 27 | Prevention becomes genetic screening or ’ gene therapy ’ instead of the actual prevention of ill-health in the first place : good primary health care , cleaning the environment of reproductive health hazards ( radiation contamination etc. ) , adequate nutrition and housing , attention to dangerous prescription drugs ( a lesson learned from thalidomide ) , and so on . |
| 28 | Sharpe counted twenty-four gouts of smoke in the first salvo . |
| 29 | Why is it — perhaps you can enlighten me — why is it , for example , they roast topside of beef in the first place and in the second cook it to the consistency of baked cow-pat ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't often associate the word passion with us , ’ said Luton 's manager , David Pleat , afterwards , ‘ but I thought we played with a lot of passion in the first half . ’ |