Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [prep] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is a bucking of current trends with the growth in spending outstripping rises in income for the first time in three years . |
| 2 | The Roman bronze figure of Ajax seated in meditation from the first century BC is the only three-dimensional representation of the Greek hero to have survived ; it is thought by Ortiz to be the clue to the subject of the Belvedere torso in the Vatican Collection . |
| 3 | Therefore it was supposed that payments practices , and other institutional arrangements which change only slowly over time , have more influence on the velocity of circulation than any temporary changes in M. Before the First World War there may have been a good deal of truth in this assumption because the financial system was relatively unsophisticated and financial innovation was taking place very slowly by today 's standards . |
| 4 | Labour 's Alan Milburn , in response to the first question , pledged to restore benefits for 16 and 17-year-olds unable to find work . |
| 5 | In response to the first Nescafe Boycott , Nestle agreed to abide by the WHO/Unicef International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes . |
| 6 | Hence , even where force is used in self-defence in response to the first use of violence the employment of a greater degree of force than that used by the attacker , or the continued use of force beyond the point where the attacker is willing or unable to continue the attack would not be seen as legitimate in law . |
| 7 | In response to the first task , 72 per cent of the pupils obtained an acceptable height measurement for the label but 44 per cent only cut out the label with acceptable accuracy . |
| 8 | In response to the first cycle , dysphagia improved dramatically . |
| 9 | WITH the two main floodlit tournaments in Junior Rugby just around the corner , many clubs are looking forward to the opportunity to sharpen their skills in preparation for the first batch of league matches . |
| 10 | In contrast to the first group , relations are conducted at the Party to Party as well as State to State level . |
| 11 | The German propaganda machine — and Hitler himself in his speeches — continued , of course , to hammer home the theme that , in contrast to the First World War , Front and Heimat were indivisibly united , and the bonds between leadership and people unbreakable . |
| 12 | In contrast to the first sequence , the keynote here is one of simplicity and naturalness . |
| 13 | Where a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party is representing this party in parliament for the first time the above ( normal ) procedure shall be set in motion not earlier than eighteen months after his or her election as Member of Parliament . |
| 14 | He is under 13 stone in weight for the first time since his teens . |
| 15 | The death- like opening phrase is played steadily , with blanched tone and no vibrato , the viola exactly judged in counterpoint to the first violin . |
| 16 | When , for example , establishment actor Raymond Massey saw James Dean in action for the first time on the set of East of Eden , emitting as he did a stream of sexual and genital adjectives , Massey stormed off the set declaring , ‘ I have never experienced anything like this in my entire life . |
| 17 | Krabbe 's comeback GERMANY 'S double world sprint champion Katrin Krabbe will be back in action for the first time since the lifting of her doping ban , at a meeting on her home Neubrandenburg track on June 13 . |
| 18 | ‘ We have lost two League games in succession for the first time since August . |
| 19 | Rangers ' goalkeeper , who has a valid claim to the title of Britain 's best by his displays in Europe this season , has missed two matches in succession for the first time since joining the club from Hibs and will not train today . |
| 20 | Next day — possibly anticipating that the fighter defences had been crippled by the attrition of the 22nd. , the Axis appeared in force for the first time in some days as a further convoy reached the island . |
| 21 | A report in the Financial Times of April 21 , summarizing interviews with economic officials , said that the next stage in the Russian government 's economic reform programme would include a relaxation of tight controls on budget spending , in force in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 22 | It must therefore be stated in reply to the first part of the second question that the term ‘ matters relating to tort , delict or quasi-delict ’ within the meaning of article 5(3) of the Convention must be regarded as an independent concept covering all actions which seek to establish the liability of a defendant and which are not related to a ‘ contract ’ within the meaning of article 5(1) . |
| 23 | Deputies from the SPA , in opposition for the first time , abstained from the vote . |
| 24 | The film is bogged down in exposition for the first hour , remains plodding , and shifts uncertainly between protagonists . |
| 25 | He sold Grove Chance , then in foal for the first time , to his neighbour Percy Thomas , but when she died shortly after giving birth to Norton 's Coin he bought back the foal . |
| 26 | Returning to Shrewsbury to join his father in the family business , he exhibited at the Liverpool Academy from 1812 to 1814 and in the latter year became involved in an ambitious public project in the town , the erection of a monumental column in honour of the first Viscount Hill [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | The article also states that the burden of proof that a standard term has been individually negotiated falls on the seller or supplier , but given the provisions set out in the previous paragraph , it is hard to see how this burden can ever be discharged , unless there has been an individual negotiation at which both parties actually discussed and wrote out the clause in question for the first time . |
| 28 | Many pistoliers will be fighting in battle for the first time . |
| 29 | Mounds of legal documents were brought to the Court House in Whitminster for the first day of the case between B & Q and Gloucester City Council . |
| 30 | As Bramley are already promoted to the Second , with Ryedale York and Workington doomed to the Third , the six clubs in contention for the First Division 's second relegation place are the only sides anticipating a nervous Easter . |