Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the year ending March 1991 , 2,917 students in Scotland qualified for registration as first level nurses . |
| 2 | The project was intended for use with first year secondary school pupils ( aged 11–12 years ) and involves an average of three hours of teaching over a series of classroom lessons . |
| 3 | There are no character notes of any kind in the text , which is written as a complex rhyming scheme that looks like prose at first glance . |
| 4 | But even when we can interpret the signals , we can not predict whether they will fall in love at first sight , remain indifferent , or loathe each other . |
| 5 | The Chancellor gradually retired from acting as judge of first instance , and reserved himself for the Court of Appeal in Chancery and for the House of Lords . |
| 6 | He would be living in college at first — Emmanuel was his own college — but he would like , he said , to find a place of his own , preferably outside the town . |
| 7 | For the analysis we grouped patients according to age at first intercourse ( <17 or >18 ) and lifetime number of sexual partners ( 1–2 , 3–4 , 5–10 , and >11 ) . |
| 8 | In essence , therefore , a trustee or personal representative may deal , notwithstanding the fact that he possesses unpublished price sensitive information relating to the securities in which he deals , if he acts with propriety by first obtaining proper advice . |
| 9 | I do n't believe in love at first sight , and I think it 's a dangerous philosophy . |
| 10 | That 's our problem , that , that 's what we 're really going to home on first of all . |
| 11 | In 1910 they were drawn at home to First Division Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 12 | Begin to add the warm distilled water , drop by drop at first , to the oil and wax , beating with a rotary whisk , balloon whisk or an electric food mixer set at the lowest speed . |
| 13 | Undeterred by his early disasters , he decided to persevere with photography by first learning as much about it as he possible could . |
| 14 | Perhaps the first point that needs to be made is that the relationship between use and learning differs in respect to first and second language situations . |
| 15 | ‘ I do have a tendency to fall in love at first sight . |
| 16 | Before the end of the session , we shall also be contacting centre co-ordinators , asking for information about first destinations of candidates who have completed a general SVQ . |
| 17 | When the audience broke into applause on first beholding the characteristically extravagant set she at first appeared dumbfounded and then sat back in her seat rather stiffly . |
| 18 | Errors in original entry — Wrong amount entered in book of first entry . |
| 19 | The data from the other three course involved was restricted to progression beyond first year . |
| 20 | Just as we fell in love at first sight with our new home , so we fell in love with you and Nigel at first meeting . |
| 21 | I first met this pretty parasite in a string of pork sausages ( how romantic ! ) and fell in love at first sight . |
| 22 | Billy , the Havildar-Major , was a tiny , wizened man , always smiling and very devout , who never went to sleep without first singing softly to himself all three verses of ‘ Jesus loves me , this I know ’ . |
| 23 | They possessed a certain plausibility in as much as Richard could not have gone on crusade without first ensuring that his position as his father 's heir was fully and publicly recognized in the most formal manner possible , while everything about Henry 's policy in the last four years indicated that he was reluctant to make any such announcement . |
| 24 | Alternatively , laws-of-war considerations can lead to advocacy of the enhanced radiation weapon or neutron bomb , on the grounds that it is aimed specifically to destroy military targets ( Johnson , 1984 , pp. 46–7 ) — but this could lead to pressure for first use of nuclear weapons . |
| 25 | Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are a relatively new class of antidepressants that have been heavily promoted for use as first line treatment in depression . |
| 26 | The furthest point to which the sound carried was Rodriguez Island , 4,811 kilometres distant , near Mauritius in the Indian Ocean , where the sounds were also taken for gunfire at first . |
| 27 | GROUP AXIME MOVES INTO PROFIT FOR FIRST HALF OF CURRENT FISCAL |
| 28 | What 's more , he 's single , rich , famous and a real devil at falling in love at first sight . |
| 29 | The Marquis of Rossmayne , married , a leader of the fashionable set , falling in love at first sight with a tinker . |
| 30 | The factors selected were mean OBS score at time of first assessment , whether the sufferer was singly or doubly incontinent at least once daily , whether he or she engaged in persistent wandering away from home , whether he or she lived alone , and whether he or she had no closely involved informal carer . |