Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police are joining forces with colleagues from the fire and ambulance services in the first ‘ Safer Seniors ’ campaign . |
| 2 | This sum is equivalent to about one third of the Government grant to Radio Tanzania for the same period , and to more than the entire sum allocated to the development of information and broadcasting services in the first Five Year plan . |
| 3 | Minneapolis-based Lawson Software Inc is to launch version 6.0 of its financial and distribution software in the first quarter of 1993 , and with it a more international strategy . |
| 4 | Very limited resources were allocated to general social and community facilities in the first six years of the LDDC . |
| 5 | This would include test and examination results during the first year , continuous assessment marks and evaluations , form tutors ' reports , results of any standardised tests such as those provided by National Foundation for Education Research ( NFER ) and , in appreciating the continuity of education , indicators and assessments from the primary school reports . |
| 6 | In her forty-four year life , Mary ruled for only six , so that we are faced with another thirty-eight years when she had virtually no role in her kingdom , being a minor and absentee ruler for the first nineteen , and a deposed queen for the second . |
| 7 | At the moment , at secondary level any school 's review of a National Curriculum plan has two main imponderables - namely how to organise keystage 4 from fourteen to sixteen in a way which accommodates choice and avoids boredom and alienation amongst those with the least attainment in the compulsory core and foundation subjects in the first three keystages . |
| 8 | London 's insurance and commodity markets , the inheritance of a century of British imperial and trade dominance before the First World War , remained the most truly international of their kind . |
| 9 | ‘ We are calling for a one-day strike next Thursday in the school of food and consumer studies in the first instance . |
| 10 | Sodomy and birth control for the first two-thirds of the century were ‘ non nominandum inter christianos ’ , or ‘ crimes against nature ’ , too horrible to be named . |
| 11 | Packets will also carry quantified information about tar and nicotine content for the first time . |
| 12 | Ratings and audience appreciation for the first serial , ‘ The Tribe of Gum ’ , were good , and indeed above the average for BBC 's Children 's broadcasting . |
| 13 | But rain in Kenya , London 's leading supplier , helped produce a record January harvest , and world production in the first quarter of this year was around 20,000 tonnes up on 1992 . |
| 14 | Student and opposition movements , refusing to accept the slow pace of democratization offered by the regime of President Gnassingbe Eyadema , mounted several days of campus and street demonstrations during the first two weeks of March . |
| 15 | As well as the 30,000 sq ft of retail space , the complex houses office accommodation and plant room on the first floor above the retail area . |
| 16 | By a notice of appeal dated 18 February 1991 the second defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that the judge erred ( 1 ) in concluding that the first defendant was not acting as the plaintiffs ' agent when he procured the signature of the second defendant to the legal charge dated 3 July 1987 ; and ( 2 ) in not finding that the execution of the charge was procured by the undue influence and material misrepresentation of the first defendant and thereby in not setting aside the charge . |
| 17 | The total number of buyout and buy-in transactions in the first half of 1992 , at 301 completions , was virtually identical to that in the same period in 1991 , although the total value of transactions rose by 40% to £1.65bn . |