Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sludds , winner of the title in 1984 , has been struggling unsuccessfully to make an impression on the European tour , but now looks a very good bet indeed for the £10,000 first prize in the Irish Championship . |
| 2 | It is the normal practice for the Treasury first to make an estimation of economic growth , inflation , public expenditure , and revenue receipts on the basis of unchanged fiscal policies . |
| 3 | Clairmonte was a popular choice for the title first won by John Carl Grimek , America 's ‘ Monarch of Muscledom ’ back in 1948 , but his victory had been a close run thing . |
| 4 | It was also a base for the campaigns first in Gallipoli and later in Palestine . |
| 5 | His nearest challenger for the £37,500 first prize , which would push his official winnings since 1971 to £1,020,545 , is Scotland 's Bill Longmuir , whose 75 for 217 included a triple-bogey seven at the 10th . |
| 6 | ‘ I was short all day , ’ said Faldo , who trailed by only two strokes in the chase for the $400,000 first prize . |
| 7 | Although it works off a car 's own battery , all Nightsticks also incorporate an internal power supply to foil thieves who go for the wiring first . |
| 8 | Indeed , indeed so that 's what you might use , yep What 's the value , I mean what does it do what does it do for the company first of all ? |
| 9 | But as you say changing the means to the end , I E you go for the industrialization first and once you 've got that you can then move forward to collectivization . |
| 10 | Torrance arrived in time yesterday for nine holes practice behind the pro-am field and like the rest of the contenders for the £41,660 first prize was delighted by the condition of this Donald Steel-designed course amid the pines . |
| 11 | Croydon-born Ted Harding had played for the Palace first team as early as October 1942 and he became the longest-playing survivor of our 1946–47 Football League side , for he was still appearing for us in April 1953 . |
| 12 | Jack 's last game for the Palace first team was on Easter Saturday , 3 April 1926 , when he helped Palace to a 1–1 draw at Gillingham , but 7,000 fans turned up for his Benefit match at Selhurst Park a little over a year later to show their appreciation of as fine a player as ever wore the Palace colours . |
| 13 | So she made for the orchard first . |
| 14 | But I mean once this strike is over , unless we come to proper agreement erm they know then that then it will be too late then cos there 's somebody saying then they came for the Jews first was it ? |
| 15 | Schools coaches are already preparing their U12 teams for the NI first year tournament at the end of May which will complete the competitive season and leave the way clear for targeted coaching courses . |
| 16 | I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation . |
| 17 | Essentially for the reason first advanced by Adam Smith in the quotation at the start of this chapter . |
| 18 | Note that it is a problem for the doctor first and foremost . |
| 19 | Right always have a always g if you 're not sure go for the C first so there 's cup okay . |
| 20 | ALL around Feethams during the Durham-Somerset first day we posed the same question : before leg spinner Ian Salisbury 's inclusion in yesterday 's England squad , which England cricketer last had the same name as an English cathedral city ? |
| 21 | A combination is perhaps not quite so simple as the beginners first believe . |
| 22 | A third centre of jade-working was that still active in New Zealand as the Maori first came under the direct observation of European explorers , colonists and ethnologists . |
| 23 | SOUTH AFRICAN cricket forgot its apartheid past as the history-making first Test against India opened here yesterday . |
| 24 | As the bunch first of all climbs their one Pyrenean mountain , the Col de Marie-Blanque , then snakes through the hot foothills from Spain into France , 230 kilometres to Pau on Monday , then 200 kilometres from Pau to Bordeaux the next day , many riders will chance their arm to form a winning breakaway . |
| 25 | When Lineker threw down the captain 's arm band in disgust , the rift between the pair first became public . |
| 26 | The imminence of the Premier League means that this is probably the last time the famous old knockout tournament will be played while some degree of financial equality exists between the present First and Second divisions . |
| 27 | This manoeuvre , however , opened a gap of some 48km/130mls between the German First and Second armies , inviting disaster . |
| 28 | She knew what he was like , how he never did anything without having thought about the repercussions first . |
| 29 | What about the lady first with the books , I mean , th th that could , someone could fall out , lose interest , you 've given a grant |
| 30 | Your article of April 10th about the CS First Boston Group states that it has been kept out of the league of top-flight American investment banks . |