Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molesworth 's chairmanship of the Select Committee on the Downing Street Public Offices Bill must have been one of his last acts as First Commissioner of Works , as on 21st July , 1855 , Palmerston promoted him to be Secretary of State for the Colonies , and appointed the President of the Board of Health , Sir Benjamin Hall ( 1802–67 ) , in his place . |
| 2 | Botany Bay — near Margate , not Sydney — is the location for Sunley Estates ' Northdown Park development , which offers a whole range of houses for first time buyers . |
| 3 | He struggled for a moment to remember the rules for first contact with alien cultures . |
| 4 | The publication of Waiting times for first outpatient appointments in the NHS , the report of a workshop commissioned by the Department of Health , therefore provides a timely reminder of the issues and offers some worthwhile solutions . |
| 5 | Patients are now being promised local charter standards for waiting times for first outpatient appointments and maximum clinic waiting times of 30 minutes . |
| 6 | Played six times for first team last season . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Helen may do some painting and Elizabeth likes to work at drawing shapes and picking out words as first steps in reading and writing . |
| 9 | Both Karrimor and Berghaus had a range of big , no frills , rucksacks for first time users , the former the Discovery range , the latter the Arrow range . |
| 10 | This is worn by contenders for first prize in waiting at bus stops . ’ |
| 11 | Provide lower-cost homes for first time buyers |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Check additions in the subsidiary books of first entry . |
| 14 | Hence for every state satisfying b , P and Q must have identical shapes of first step behaviour . |
| 15 | The voting members were to be peers of first creation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is a map maintained by the Registry , based on the Ordnance Survey map , which shows every registered property and all land subject to cautions against first registration . |
| 19 | Stopped for four months under first Waverley criterion . |
| 20 | Stopped for two months under first Waverley criterion . |
| 21 | Stopped for three months under first Waverley criterion . |
| 22 | Stopped for three months under first Waverley criterion . |
| 23 | Stopped for three months under first Waverley criterion . |
| 24 | Stopped for three months under first Waverley criterion . |
| 25 | Stopped for three months under first Waverley criterion . |
| 26 | Stopped for three months under first Waverley criterion . |
| 27 | Stopped for three months under first Waverley criterion . |
| 28 | Stopped for two months under first Waverley criterion . |
| 29 | Stopped for three months under first Waverley criterion . |
| 30 | Stopped for three months under first Waverley criterion . |