Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | " What , " Graham said contemptuously , annoyed , " that tall bloke with the bleached hair in first year ? |
| 2 | She had made the right decision to first appease Rainald . |
| 3 | Students are encouraged to take a broad curriculum in first year , choosing up to 6 courses from the following : Origin and Diversity of Life ; Quantitative Biology ; Physics in the Life Sciences ; Life Science ; Human Population Biology ; Molecules and Cells ; Biological and Economic Systems ; and Chemistry for the Life Sciences ( two courses ) . |
| 4 | The degree to which publicans ‘ invested ’ for this reason in football is unknown but the pecuniary advantage at first sight seems doubtful . |
| 5 | Tony 's meal was a revelation — solid cholesterol from first forkful to last . |
| 6 | I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | The Knoyle family were Roman Catholic , and strong supporters of first the Cavalier and then the Jacobite causes . |
| 8 | LEEDS UNITED 'S season threatens to crumble into ashes following the champions ' humiliating defeat by First Division Watford in the Coca-Cola Cup . |
| 9 | Peter , you 're teaching a very interesting course to first year students called ‘ Energy and Applied Physics ’ . |
| 10 | Any NOT eligible for transfer to Russians will be included in surrendered personnel at first ( b ) above ( ie will be included among German PoWs to be transferred to 12 Army Group ) . |
| 11 | In an ongoing study ( A Stewart , D Brenton , personal communication ) of 15 infants conceived under dietary control ( mean phenylalanine values in first trimester 213–496 µmol/l — twice to four times normal ) Griffiths developmental quotients at one year were within the normal range and head circumferences were at or above the 10th centile . |
| 12 | this decision would be more helpful to sentencers in the Crown Court if the Court had indicated what the proper sentence at first instance would have been . |
| 13 | Taylor ( Un ) , who was Assemblyman for Fermanagh and South Tyrone in 1973 , obtained a clear quota of first preference votes . |
| 14 | The Third World as a term needs to retrieve this lost positive sense — even if today the political order has changed so that to some extent the various forms of Islamic fundamentalism have taken over the role of providing a direct alternative to First and Second World ideologies . |
| 15 | The company , which is projecting a $80m to $100m loss for 1992 and a sizeable loss for first quarter of 1993 ended October 31 , also cut another 200 workers before Christmas . |
| 16 | LYMM DAM : Bream , skimmers and small roach are bound to provide lively fishing for first few weeks . |
| 17 | This improved matters at first , but green algae was followed by the dreaded brown patches , which took over most of the tank . |
| 18 | Preliminary studies have suggested that a high proportion of first year students experience homesickness . |
| 19 | His system determines the thematic continuity of English texts by first parsing to find the head noun , which is chosen initially to represent the theme , and declared as the ’ theme noun ’ . |
| 20 | Acknowledge any limitations of competence and refuse in such cases to accept delegated functions without first having received instruction in regard to those functions and having been assessed as competent . |
| 21 | Despite these caveats , Table 1.4 gives an interesting overview of first degree courses in two respects . |
| 22 | You may well find that it is scared of this unfamiliar sensation at first . |
| 23 | Common sense and a rudimentary knowledge of first aid would have saved him . ’ |
| 24 | In this way , we would generate our scientific theory of first impressions . |
| 25 | We therefore performed the analysis on 172 patients : the median age at first intercourse was 17 ( interquartile range 16–19 ) years , and the median number of sexual partners was 4 ( interquartile range 2–10 ) partners . |
| 26 | Thus , in most WFS countries in the Western Hemisphere and East & South-East Asia & Oceania regions , among the women who were aged 25–29 when interviewed , median age at first marriage or union was about 20.2 and 18.8 , respectively , and the median age at first birth ( i.e. the age at which half of them had already had a birth ) was around 21 years ( between 19 and 24 years in individual countries ) . |
| 27 | Thus , in most WFS countries in the Western Hemisphere and East & South-East Asia & Oceania regions , among the women who were aged 25–29 when interviewed , median age at first marriage or union was about 20.2 and 18.8 , respectively , and the median age at first birth ( i.e. the age at which half of them had already had a birth ) was around 21 years ( between 19 and 24 years in individual countries ) . |
| 28 | Among the 39 developing countries that participated in the WFS , there is a strong correlation between the median age at first marriage or union and the median age at first birth among women aged 25–29 years at the time of the survey . |
| 29 | Among the 39 developing countries that participated in the WFS , there is a strong correlation between the median age at first marriage or union and the median age at first birth among women aged 25–29 years at the time of the survey . |
| 30 | Thus , in a group of 15 countries where median age at first marriage was between 15.2 and 18.3 years , the median age at first birth fell in the range of 18.6–19.9 years , irrespective of whether , within that age range women in that country married earlier or later . |