Example sentences of "of they [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories . |
2 | Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever . |
3 | According to forecasts no less than 2 million people will visit Seville in the six months of Expo , many of them for the first time . |
4 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
5 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year many of them for the first time and we want to make sure that the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
6 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year , many of them for the first time , and we want to make sure the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
7 | It was proposed that the trainee nurses would be accommodated in the main building of the institution and the committee recommended a scheme for ten probationers , five of them in the first year . |
8 | The sheer volume of the many assessments externally required by the Act and now under design by SEAC runs the danger of forcing the less confident teachers — indeed all of them in the first instance , as they ascend the steep learning curve — into ‘ rote teaching ’ , a much more dangerous activity than rote learning because it tends to shut down that sense of intellectual curiosity without which children are not really being taught . |
9 | There were three of them in the first team at Peterborough last Saturday , and on Tuesday night young Adam Reed was in the squad . |
10 | Faced , however , with the catastrophic increase in unemployment and the need to occupy large numbers of workless people without directly employing them ( which would have run counter to the economic doctrine which had led to the redundancy of many of them in the first place ) , the Government poured money into any ‘ voluntary ’ agency willing to put in a bid for government-funded cheap labour . |
11 | that wh who in the government would he dispose of and he sat and smiled gently and said well he would n't have appointed any of them in the first place . |