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

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1 The Committee recommends that the NHS Management Executive should ensure that all English Regional Health Authorities set broad standards for waiting times for such appointments , and that the Management Executive should require District Health Authorities and Family Health Services Authorities to take urgent action to reduce waiting times for first appointments .
2 Helen may do some painting and Elizabeth likes to work at drawing shapes and picking out words as first steps in reading and writing .
3 Edward Pyatt 's Guinness Book of Mountains and Mountaineering ( Guinness 1980 ) , gives lists of first ascents — mostly by Coolidge and Almer — and a poor location map , but no bibliography ; and Doug Scott 's classic Big Wall Climbing ( Daye Ward , 1974 ) tells only of the feats of Zsigimondy and Diboma on the traverse of La Meije and the first ascent of the South Face respectively .
4 our research suggests that the development of strong power goals in first children arises from parental expectations .
5 Then , we will contrast each of these with accounts of first meetings with people we know well .
6 In the accounts of first meetings , the subjects generally described the situation , physical appearance and attractiveness ( the first meetings described were often with members of the opposite sex ) , details of the initial conversation , comparisons of the person with oneself , and reaction of the other person to themselves .
7 They differ in that when the impressions are described in the accounts of first meetings , the situation is important to the impression .
8 One slightly frustrating aspect of this book is the lack of a bibliography , meaning that one has to go hunting in the footnotes for first references .
9 Community Mothers are experienced mothers who are recruited in the areas and trained to give support and encouragement to parents of first babies in their own local communities with emphasis on child-rearing , health care , nutritional improvement and overall development .
10 Competent teachers try not to convey too many ideas during first lectures but increase the " density " of lectures over the first year .
11 The importance of age-group measures is declining as higher education admits more mature students and becomes less age-specific , but nevertheless the proportion of young people enrolling is some index of the possible social functions and perceptions of first degrees .
12 While the law has not yet been enforced , individuals offering counterfeit Indian objects for sale now face fines of $250,000 and prison terms for first offences .
13 He fitted a regression equation ( expressed in terms of first differences ) of the form where W t is the daily variance of returns on the index , measured in the same way as V t and M t is maturity .
14 Using the above information for Commercial Union we may calculate both betas and covariances from first principles .
15 Teachers in first schools are often more used to working in the classroom alongside other professionals than those who are subject specialists at the secondary school level .
16 Local theatre productions also call for you to see the press , write and mail out press releases and invitations to first nights .
17 Entry Requirements for First Degrees and DipHE Courses .
18 Oxford , Durham , Cambridge , Newcastle and Edinburgh ( in that order ) publish high proportions of first papers in Nature , and these universities are also amongst the highest scoring in terms of productivity .
19 Oxford , Durham , Cambridge , Newcastle and Edinburgh ( in that order ) publish high proportions of first papers in Nature , and these universities are also amongst the highest scoring in terms of productivity .
20 There is an exhibition of science carried out by children in first schools in Brighton and Hove at the Booth Museum , Dyke Road , this week .
21 Intended for students with first degrees in mathematical/scientific subjects who wish to specialise in one of several areas of Computer Science .
22 The best informed team of crystallographers , meteorologists , physicists and mathematicians in the world could not predict the shape of snowflakes from first principles
23 Part-time enrolments have grown somewhat more rapidly than full-time ones , but the trends in first degrees awarded are more complex , with a slight decline in the universities and a steady increase in the polytechnics/colleges in recent years .
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