Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | the foundation U , yo you 've got the option to start the teaching certificate in the first year . |
| 2 | The series moves from sentence/paragraph level in the first book , through whole text level in the second ; the third book presents real ( but slightly modified ) academic texts ; and finally , in the fourth book , genuine unsimplified texts are used . |
| 3 | Izvestiya of March 12 reported that officials were predicting a budget deficit in the first quarter of around 10 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) against the government 's target of 1 per cent . |
| 4 | Rossiskaya gazeta of May 14 carried budget plans approved by the Supreme Soviet and dated April 4 , which set the RF budget deficit in the first quarter of 1992 at Rbs. 67,500 million . |
| 5 | The budget deficit in the first half of 1992 had reached 7.5 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) , rising sharply in July and August ; " substantial tightening of the budget policy " was to be expected . |
| 6 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 7 | The company made at least one take-over of another East End brewery before the First World War , John Furze and Co 's St George brewery , Church Lane , Whitechapel , in 1901 . |
| 8 | They allowed cameras into their Hereford base for the first time , to drive home the message that the public must be on their guard in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 9 | The German submarine offensive in the first 18 months of the war was largely contained . |
| 10 | It is possible to go on with the same therapist to deal with the problems which caused you to need the regression experience in the first place . |
| 11 | Marcel , the first person narrator of the novel , meets the writer Bergotte for the first time . |
| 12 | I think I think it is a good idea though to erm oh right er to y'know kind of break it up a bit er particularly if at an early stage you 're intending to y'know kind of go through erm and get people to go through quite a lot of questions erm as a by way of er y'know kind of the first stages in in er developing this thing . |
| 13 | Make friends with your accounts department at the first opportunity . |
| 14 | Anyone interested in seeking educational assistance to help further their career should contact their line manager or personnel department in the first instance . |
| 15 | The writer 's own experience was seeing the Progress car in the first post-war Illuminations of 1949 : sheer magic as it swept by , playing music while its myriad bulbs radiated heat and light . |
| 16 | To examine the relation between birth weight and β cell function in the first degree relatives of non-insulin dependent diabetic subjects . |
| 17 | More recently , Twin Peaks ( 1990- ) may be less surprising in its unsettling mix of crime , pastiche and parody when it is recognized that its coauthor , Mark Frost , was also a script writer of the first Hill Street Blues series . |
| 18 | A further question may have arisen ; why is the fertile soil or the susceptibility present in the first place ? |
| 19 | Mr Thompson , 42 , of Chelmsford , Essex , was murdered in October in a hotel car park on the first day of his holiday . |
| 20 | Patients who start out using high levels of gum — about one piece every waking hour for the first six weeks of quitting — do better than half-hearted chewers . |
| 21 | All this supposes that the persons mentioned want to go on the search trek in the first place . |
| 22 | Flamewave Supreme Inset Living Flame Effect Unlike the first two types , these can be fully installed within a fireplace opening , and project only minimally into a room . |
| 23 | Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt 's excellent book , The Bomber Command War Diaries tell us that on the night of 23/24 September Bomber Command for the first time concentrated its main bomber strength on one city — Berlin . |
| 24 | Pham told delegates that there had been a rapid increase in export turnover during the first half of 1990 , but that the production of export goods was threatened by the major socio-economic changes in Eastern Europe , which had forced some countries to cancel contracts , and that " the dilatory payment and overdue debts to the export goods manufacturers fail to encourage the production of export goods " . |
| 25 | ‘ From a planning point of view it would not have been a major worry , although only the force staging the original tie could police the second replay because all the liaison work for the first match would have been done . |
| 26 | The Institute and a number of regions and branches were successful in obtaining grants from the Arts Council in the first tranche approved by its Architecture Unit . |
| 27 | or , if you continue on your holiday , we will give you £20 compensation for the first 12 hours ' delay ; for each subsequent 12-hour delay we will give you a further £10 — up to a maximum of £60 per person in total . |
| 28 | We have therefore included in the cost of your holiday insurance protection : after a 12-hour delay at the start of your holiday , you have the right to cancel and get a full refund of all the money you have paid us , excluding insurance premiums — or , if you continue on your holiday , we will give you £20 compensation for the first 12- hours ' delay : for each subsequent 12-hour delay we will give you a further £10 — up to a maximum of £100 per person in total . |
| 29 | The actual decision was given on the basis that applying s5 of the Partnership Act in the first case and the general law of agency in the second , the firms were liable on the undertakings because they were given by their partner/employee acting within the usual course of his business as a qualified solicitor . |
| 30 | RESTORE on its own resets the data pointer to the first data item in the program . |