Example sentences of "of [pers pn] in [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | There were three of them in the first team at Peterborough last Saturday , and on Tuesday night young Adam Reed was in the squad . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Phonelink also intends to broaden the possible applications of the product with the launch of Tel-Me in the first quarter of 1994 . |
7 | Even overpraising does , at times , lead to tantrums as a child decides that your lavish praise means that you did n't expect much of him in the first place . |
8 | Very silly of him in the first place ! |
9 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
10 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
11 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
12 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |