Example sentences of "[prep] first [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 In future , initial teaching must reflect the opinion that education in nursing , as in all professions , must continue after first qualification and opportunities are needed to make this a reality .
2 In fact , presumably one also needs to do the transposition of first oboe and second oboe in case the the oboe is n't there ?
3 The embarrassments of first love and sexuality , and particularly the nature of violence and cruelty , become bearable or ‘ handlable ’ in a story set in the past .
4 Whatever the rapture of first love and the obsessiveness of courtship ( sweet old fashioned word ) and marriage , it is a class act which can retain that rapture through the rigours of parenthood , child care and mortgage repayment .
5 ‘ But there are powerful arguments for custody , not as a sentence of first resort but certainly as one weapon in the ‘ armoury ’ .
6 HongMid possibly thinks that , now that the Japanese banks have abandoned their role as lender of first resort and some of the borrowers are not the forces they were , global banking might make sense again .
7 The councils ' lender of last resort ( and since 1980 , increasingly of first resort as well ) is the Public Works Loans Board .
8 Appeal courts emphasise that the discretion is vested in the court of first instance and are reluctant to interfere ; first instance judges fall back on issues such as that of the burden of proof .
9 They are courts of first instance and their purpose is to adjudicate disputes between employers and employees , arising under employment protection legislation .
10 But that is not because its orders have greater status per se than the orders of a court of first instance or any intermediate court of appeal .
11 In all cases , whether in courts of first instance or not , an award of costs must be ‘ just and equitable . ’
12 To manage these Thomas Cromwell invented two totally new institutions , the Court of First Fruits and the Court of Augmentations .
13 It is true that Mary 's return of first fruits and tenths to the Church robbed the Crown of some revenue ; but as this gesture also charged the Church with the duty of paying clerical and monastic pensions , the actual loss to the Crown was slight .
14 Directory of First Degree and Diploma of Higher Education Courses
15 Although in these studies the level of activity was not as high as originally reported , subsequent work by the eastern Cooperative Oncology Group established FAM as the regimen of first choice and showed a relatively low toxicity profile .
16 His Observations on the Circumstances which Influence the Condition of the Labouring Classes ( 1817 ) questioned the linkage by Thomas Malthus [ q.v. ] of population growth to increasing wage rates , arguing that the likely age of first marriage and thus birth rates were influenced , not by wage rates or poor-relief practices , but by perceived employment prospects which , paradoxically , were best when wages were low .
17 The choice of the most appropriate and satisfying degree course can be a perplexing one , but the University is aware of this and our degree course structures allow students to keep options open until the end of first year or later .
18 And their of first office as I recall as a little boy , was on the q quay as we used to say in Porthmadog .
19 This is important to stress , in as much as Carse made a different judgement concerning the relative authority of first violin and conducteur at the Opéra ( see the opening of this article , and n.3 ) .
20 Savvy : I 'm from the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre project in London and our members include lesbians of First Nation and Third World descent , both people who 've grown up in this country and people who have n't , so we have a very diverse membership .
21 Realising she had no chance of winning an argument against the use of first names when they were about to spend several weeks alone at sea together , Polly made a brief gesture of acquiescence .
22 In this way the officer accepting the production can also prove the date of first registration if need be by personal appearance .
23 Our strong commitment to the quality of the teaching and learning experience offered to students is borne out by the increasing percentage of first class and upper second class degrees awarded .
24 18 Quartet in B flat K.172 , showing the end of first movement where Mozart has had to cancel one bar and cram the rewritten version onto handwritten staves at the end of the page .
25 At both the Girl Guide meetings and in the Rangers I was able to add to the knowledge of First Aid and General Nursing I had began when in 8th Hastings Brownies .
26 Make sure you know exactly what to do in the way of first aid and that you can summon medical or other help as quickly as possible should it be needed .
27 Recent legislation has had some effect in keeping rents within reasonable bounds , and in providing security of tenure for tenants against landlords ; and under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 many residential tenants now have a right of first refusal where the landlord proposes to dispose of his interest in the property .
28 There was also a custom by which a boy at his first harvest under the old system of farming went through the ordeal of First Nail or Shoeing the Colt .
29 A search will reveal : ( a ) Whether the property is in an area of compulsory registration ( question 18 made of the local authority will also give you this information ) ; ( b ) whether the freehold or leasehold title is registered ; ( c ) if the title is unregistered , whether any cautions against first registration or priority notice is registered .
30 The Opposition believe that we should consider alternatives and the ability of magistrates to say that something must be done with first offenders and that an alternative can work .
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