Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gave him a bit of consultancy work for the first year , but after that he did n't know what he would do . |
| 2 | Of course you are still bound to make ends meet , but you no longer have to make all your decisions in terms of money profit as the first requirement . |
| 3 | 1993 examination entries are now in and candidates will receive their Confirmation of Entry Form by the first week in April . |
| 4 | Fearing the introduction of caucus politics as the first stage toward installation of a socialist regime , disaffected Liberals were drawn into the camp of the Tories ; together they formed the Municipal Alliance , and by skilful reassertion of discourses of municipal activity embodied in incorporation assimilated the challenge of labour and took power in 1900 . |
| 5 | As a new father I am only too aware of the importance of expert guidance through the first months of parenthood . |
| 6 | It is perhaps characteristic that the best evidence for the appointment of household officers in the first half of the eleventh century should come from Normandy , which combined reverence for the Carolingian past with respect for efficiency to a degree unparalleled elsewhere . |
| 7 | Ltd. , Gomba Exim Ltd. , Routestone Ltd. , Rathbone Hotel Ltd. and Gomba Mansions Ltd. , were advanced substantial sums of money secured on a number of security documents by the first defendant , Minories Finance Ltd. , then known as Johnson Mathey Bankers Ltd . |
| 8 | Is that something that you feel may come from the ‘ hothouse ’ atmosphere of drama school in the first place ? |
| 9 | In non-metropolitan districts as a whole the rate of population growth in the first years of the 1980s was less than half what it had been a decade earlier , though again most of the fall preceded 1978 . |
| 10 | Motivated by the lure of the finish , the riot police team ploughed through 40 miles of mangrove swamp to the first sight of the Pacific Ocean at Porto Juminez . |
| 11 | They will be self-financing , since we aim to raise 20 billion by way of pollution taxes over the first five year of Government . |
| 12 | In our opinion , the quality of service measurements of the first and second class letter service for 1990/1991 have been correctly calculated and presented and have been derived from information obtained in accordance with the stated methodology and sampling programme . |
| 13 | Putting your feet into a pair of ski boots for the first time can be alarming . |
| 14 | The effect of the restraint of trade doctrine on the first type of provision is to place limits on the type of information which may be made subject to the confidentiality provision . |
| 15 | HQ switch : The headquarters base of Middlesbrough council 's housing and community services department switches on April 6 from the 16th and 17th floors of Corporation House to the first floor . |
| 16 | There are also a lot of advantages in acquisition accountancy which can provide a sort of beer mat for the first years while you are trying to put the businesses together , and of course we did n't have these in the merger . |
| 17 | This may easily be demonstrated by substituting only the products of Legendre functions of the first kind into the condition ( 7.15 ) , which can not then be satisfied . |
| 18 | Repayments of insurance policies within the first four years of the policy 's life ; |
| 19 | Probaby the most hopeful news is that Brazil , the world 's largest Catholic nation is going to put AIDS and sexual education onto the curriculum of state schools for the first time from February this year . |
| 20 | Only in the United States and in Britain was there no element of state control by the First World War . |
| 21 | It has lost up to $3 billion of oil revenues in the first quarter of 1989 because a barrel of Dubai crude , the Middle-Eastern benchmark , now fetches $2.50-3.00 less than North Sea Brent — double the differential of a year ago . |
| 22 | Its sense of familiarity marks for the first time his ease within an international world of diplomacy . |
| 23 | He did n't much approve of animal experimentation in the first place , so I 'd guess that it was forced on him by the sponsor . ’ |
| 24 | Given that this calculation mainly consists of system savings foregone in the first year of Sizewell 's operation , less capital charges saved , the £60 million figure seems surprisingly high , given the limited value of system savings in the first year of operation . |
| 25 | He failed the end of year exams after the first year and changed his subject to sociology , in which he later attained a degree . |
| 26 | For example , if you were a first-year student at the University of Strathclyde Business School in Glasgow , Scotland , you would have a very wide range of class options within the first year of your BA degree course . |
| 27 | This redistribution of income , backed up by a similar strategy on wealth , has resulted in a widening of class differences for the first time since 1945 . |
| 28 | Jamie was looking a little fragile and they browsed through coffee and a restrained bottle of house red for the first hour . |
| 29 | Observed values of rotation rate for the first 15 days ; as in Fig. 1 c , all values are residuals after allowing for the normal slowdown rate , the persistent increase in slowdown rate , and the 265-day component . |
| 30 | ( It is interesting to see that recent union negotiations may place the wages of such workers above those of refuse collectors for the first time . ) |