Example sentences of "[prep] first [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julian was named after first winner Julian Lawrence who is seen here with two other winners , Heather Valente ( left ) and Liz Marshall . |
| 2 | Teachers ' groups or pupils could also create their own databases using local sources obtained from their county archives office , after first seeking permission from the record office whose source material it is . |
| 3 | 65 per cent of female college students continued a story which begins , ‘ After first term finals , Anne finds herself at the top of her medical school class ’ , by expressing conflicts about success , anticipating its present or future negative consequences , denying the student 's effort or ability , ignoring the cue , or showing other ‘ bizarre or inappropriate responses ’ ( 1972 : 161 , 162 ) . |
| 4 | Pardon refused after First World War executions |
| 5 | The £300,000 extension providing an extra eight rooms at the home in Prenton Road West , is named after First World War hero Frank Murphy who died on the battlefield at Ypres . |
| 6 | We 've got no sighting of her after first thing Saturday morning . ’ |
| 7 | For example , what should the government 's policy be towards First Secretary Gorbachev 's attempt at perestroika ( economic and social reconstruction within the Soviet Union ) ? |
| 8 | ‘ Great Expectations ’ is written in the style of first person narrative with a middle aged Pip telling the principal events , characters and motives which changed and shaped his life . |
| 9 | The passage is concerned not only with objects of perception , but with the process of perceiving them ; the occurrence of first person pronouns ( over half of the personal pronouns are of this type ) is a symptom of this(37) |
| 10 | In the first place , the informal modal meaning tends to be restricted to the grammatical environment of first person singular and present tense and in this respect to have limited productive generality . |
| 11 | A comparison of the proportionality of first preference votes and seats in the Convention election is of interest because investigation of the differences leads to a better understanding of the working of the system . |
| 12 | VUPP had nearly 13% of first preference votes and 18% of seats , the equivalent of four more seats than the ten which their first preference votes would appear to warrant . |
| 13 | Republican Clubs had over 2% of first preference votes but no seats . |
| 14 | If the voters ' expression of preferences leads to transfers of votes across parry lines , then proportionality of first preference votes and parties ' seats may be upset . |
| 15 | First , other parties in the UUUC put up rather fewer candidates in certain constituencies than quotas of first preference votes would have suggested and there was a subsequent transfer of votes from those parties in VUPP 's favour . |
| 16 | Such a boycott might reasonably have been expected to damage SDLP more than other parties but in fact the percentage of first preference votes cast for SDLP rose slightly from 22.1% in 1973 to 23.7% in May 1975 ( see page 26 ) . |
| 17 | The numbers of seats secured approximated to the quotas of first preference votes expressed and the only exception to this was the special case of North Down ( see below ) . |
| 18 | Paisley ( DUP ) received 2.5 quotas of first preference votes , the second highest in the province , and the distribution of his surplus ensured the elections of McFaul and Smyth ( both DUP ) . |
| 19 | Further transfers from Rainey ( Un ) and Agnew ( UPNI ) in Stages VIII and IX ensured the election of two candidates from VUPP , a party which had only .7 of a quota of first preference votes at Stage I. |
| 20 | As a result of the transfer of surpluses from , and votes of , DUP and Unionist candidates VUPP gained one more seat than their single quota of first preference votes would suggest . |
| 21 | UUUC won five seats with just over four quotas of first preference votes , and Republican Clubs ' abstention does appear to have contributed to UUUC success . |
| 22 | Taylor ( Un ) , who was Assemblyman for Fermanagh and South Tyrone in 1973 , obtained a clear quota of first preference votes . |
| 23 | The pattern of first preference votes was symmetrical in the sense that the votes , and therefore the percentage of support , for UUUC were almost equal to that for SDLP and Republican Clubs , at about 25,300 votes or 42% . |
| 24 | DUP thus secured a seat after having only .7 of a quota of first preference votes . |
| 25 | The scrutineers will proceed to add the number of first preference votes received by each candidate , eliminate the candidate with the lowest number of first preference votes and redistribute the votes of those giving him as their first preference amongst the two remaining candidates in accordance with their second preference . |
| 26 | The scrutineers will proceed to add the number of first preference votes received by each candidate , eliminate the candidate with the lowest number of first preference votes and redistribute the votes of those giving him as their first preference amongst the two remaining candidates in accordance with their second preference . |
| 27 | A lot of first publication trade paperbacks appear simultaneously in hardback , in which case I give the details for the trade paperback while mentioning the availability of the hardback . |
| 28 | But the main interest is in trying to reduce the rate of first heart attacks among middle-aged men prone to CHD ( men have maybe four times as many heart attacks as women ) . |
| 29 | He was president of the Union ( 1876 ) , a noted boxer , captain of First Trinity Boat Club , and twice rowed in the university trial eights . |
| 30 | A glance back at the collective situation of first generation Caribbeans in the UK is enough to understand why black parents do not encourage their children 's sporting endeavours . |