Example sentences of "their [adj] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said that , as brewers never sell beer at a loss , why did not the brewers knock £30 or £40 off the price of a barrel to the tenants of their tied houses in the first place ? |
| 2 | OPENER Rod Latham completed his maiden Test century as New Zealand consolidated their strong position in the first Test against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo today . |
| 3 | Without exception , all ‘ groups ’ ( whether individual or group ) improved their average performance between the first and second repetitions . |
| 4 | Speelman and Timman had agreed a draw on Tuesday night in their adjourned game from the first round . |
| 5 | However , their leading woman for the first two seasons , June Brae , was a contemporary of Margot Fonteyn , returning to the stage after a break during the war . |
| 6 | Since factors incur their major costs in the first year of dealing with a new client and make their best returns the longer the relationship lasts this is an area they must continue to address . |
| 7 | Some local education authorities reorganised their primary schools on the first and middle school pattern recommended by Plowden ( eg Surrey , Isle of Wight , Suffolk ) , but the great majority continued to follow the established 5 — 7 , 7 — 11 pattern . |
| 8 | In Kirkcaldy only two thirds of patients received a diabetes review by their general practitioner in the first or second year of a two year study and only 50% had annual blood glucose assessments . |
| 9 | They will be aware that the reason for their educational success in the first place was the high proportion of their intake coming from social classes 1 and 2 . |
| 10 | The Annamese mandarin looked at Joseph 's eager face for a moment , then his eyes lost their watchful look for the first time and he smiled . |
| 11 | THE South Africans flew out of Jamaica to Trinidad yesterday disappointed at their 107-run defeat in the first one-day international against the West Indies but overwhelmed by their reception in Kingston . |
| 12 | I do welcome those who have travelled from York and Hull , perhaps seeing their new Cathedral for the first time . |
| 13 | The infantry went to church in their new uniforms for the first time on 9 September , and had the singular honour , a month later , of joining their fellows in the cavalry who were escorting the funeral cortège of the late Earl of Cork ‘ in slow and decorous movement suitable to the solemnity of the occasion ’ . |
| 14 | This will coincide with the completion of intensive redecoration of the Primate 's Palace , thus enabling the complete sequence of all six tapestries to be seen in their original setting for the first time in thirty years . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |