Example sentences of "[noun] up [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 2 | Horror stories abound , originally fuelled by the publication of Ruth Harrison 's Animal Machines ( 1964 ) , a book which in Britain directly influenced the setting up of the first parliamentary inquiry into the new methods of animal husbandry under the chairmanship of F.W.R. Brambell . |
| 3 | The trial of Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in 1876 for republishing one of Knowlton 's pamphlets gave the birth-control movement wide publicity and created the demand for more information , and led to the setting up of the first organisation to campaign on birth control , the Malthusian League . |
| 4 | It seems that the traumatic events surrounding the over-throw of the primal hordes and the setting up of the first fraternal hunting clans produced in our ancestors a central psychological conflict of such huge and all-engulfing proportions that all subsequent generations have to some extent or other felt its effects . |
| 5 | Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch . |
| 6 | There were brambles up to the first floor . ’ |
| 7 | Accordingly , payments made in consideration or in consequence of , or otherwise in connection with , the termination of the holding of an employee 's office or employment , or any change in its functions , may be eligible for relief from income tax up to the first £30,000 , provided such payments are not otherwise chargeable to tax under Schedule E ( see ss148 and 188 TA 1988 ) . |
| 8 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |
| 9 | The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War . |
| 10 | Going back inside the house , the two staircases up to the first and second floors were dark as neither had windows , the only light available came from open bedroom doors . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , the Premier — and the Fourth right up to the First . |
| 12 | Raffle prizes were donated by Roy and Carl and raised more than £130 for the club which just missed out on an historic victory — being runner up in the first division of the Industries League for a second year . |
| 13 | It had very considerable influence in Germany up to the First World War , and also , in somewhat diluted form , in both Britain and America ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 14 | The Wolfenden Report also opened television up to the first openly gay programme , Granada 's 1957 ‘ Homosexuality and the Law , A Prologue to the Wolfenden Report ’ . |
| 15 | Ray Hanna takes G–FIRE up for the first time , Elstree , March 14 , 1981. ( via Spencer Flack ) |
| 16 | Joey Beauchamp had enough chances to wrap the game up in the first half . |
| 17 | Piper , fighting behind a stiff left jab and a MENSA rating of 153 , backed Benn up in the first two rounds , with hard short rights . |
| 18 | It roots very easily , and propagation is done by taking the cuttings and planting them , embedding the stalk up to the first node , that is the point where the next set of leaves grow . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's been a lot of talk about the £14 million funding for community care this year but the fact is £4 million of that went in setting the thing up in the first place and we 've only got £10 million left for the rest of the year , ’ said Coun Ron Kennedy . |
| 20 | Loan star Imre Varadi comes in on the starting line up for the first time in favour of the suspended Nick Cusack . |
| 21 | DAVID BRABHAM took his Ralt Spiess VW to victory in the penultimate round of the British Formula Three championship at Silverstone yesterday in a race shortened by four laps after a four-car pile up on the first lap . |
| 22 | Sorry , Charles , Chair , can we er , in noting the report , also is there some way in which we can , the Committee can convey its appreciation to the people who take on this , must be onerous responsibility er , er , and also can we congratulate the people who thought the scheme up in the first place . |
| 23 | This should be followed by a separate section on how to set the system up in the first place and how to check that it is working properly . |
| 24 | An interesting feature of the mill at Lower Glenastle is an earth ramp up to the first floor . |
| 25 | The only way up to the first floor from inside the works was via a ladder , which had started life as one of The Salisbury Volunteer Fire Brigade escapes , probably acquired by Mr. Farr during his service as a fireman in the early years of the century . |
| 26 | He puffed his way up to the first floor and , finding the outer door open , knocked on the inner one . |
| 27 | He led the way up to the first landing , where Charlie had had his bedsit . |
| 28 | The rates charged are the same as first class inland rates ( except that letters up to the first weight step sent at the Forces surface letter rate will be accepted at BFPO address in Europe ) . |