Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHY IS IT EASIER TO LOSE WEIGHT IN THE FIRST WEEK OR TWO ? |
| 2 | This makes it easier to lose weight in the first few weeks , at a rate which can be up to 4lb per week . |
| 3 | Table 2.1 gives additional information about these two broad industrial areas , showing that it is in the retail trade and the hotels and catering industry in the first of these , and public administration , education , medical services , " other services to the public " , recreational and cultural services and personal services in the second , where the proportion of temporary workers is greatest and/or where an important share of the temporary workforce is to be found . |
| 4 | Good professional advisers will remind their clients that one of the usual reasons people want money in the first place is to gain the freedom to live where they like . |
| 5 | Good advisers will remind clients that one of the reasons people want money in the first place is to gain the freedom to live where they like |
| 6 | According to the draft rules , a candidate would need to win at least 200 out of 300 votes to secure election in the first round or in a second round five days later . |
| 7 | Their ability to attract custom in the first place relies heavily on ( a ) comprehensive , colourful and well-produced catalogues , and ( b ) the use of part-time agents , usually housewives , working on a commission basis . |
| 8 | It had been laid out some fifty years before by one of those famous Scottish golfers who had dominated golf in the first couple of decades of the century . |
| 9 | Something around fifteen per cent have mixed ability in the first three years . |
| 10 | There are still very few schools that have mixed ability groups in all of their first three years , but more and more schools are introducing some mixed ability groups in their first three years and about thirty per cent have mixed ability grouping in their first year now , something around fifteen per cent have mixed ability in the first three years . |
| 11 | As for the children of the unskilled workers , relatively few of them secured entry in the first place , and even those tended to do badly : only one in twenty survived to enter for two subjects at A level . |
| 12 | So I put teddy in the first |
| 13 | They promote health and help prevent illness in the first place . |
| 14 | They promote health and help prevent illness in the first place . |
| 15 | Hysteroscopy and endometrial biopsy have an important role in the management of abnormal uterine bleeding , but all young sexually active women should have a cervical swab taken to detect chlamydia in the first instance , irrespective of the sexual history . |
| 16 | Many of these buildings which survive are in northern France and suffered bombardment in the First World War , but all are well restored to the original design . |
| 17 | Victory , therefore , solves nothing unless it eliminates the source of the antagonism which produced war in the first place . |
| 18 | In Hewitt ( 1986 ) we have an account in some detail of the processes by which white children acquire Creole by socialisation with black peers , but so far there have been no studies which have focused on how the black children acquire Creole in the first place . |
| 19 | Just as project schools may have specified objectives in their proposals in order to win a grant , so the initiators of the project may themselves have chosen to word the project aims in a particular way in order to win funding in the first place . |
| 20 | The Italian car industry received its much needed boost in the first race when Messrs Monoia and Morandi beat off 76 other challengers to win in an Italian-made OM , who filled the first three places . |
| 21 | The project aims not only to resettle youngsters who struggle to lay down roots in the capital , but to stop them heading South in the first place . |
| 22 | However , it is obviously preferable to avoid conflict in the first place by integrating traffic with the urban framework . |
| 23 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 24 | ( It is noteworthy that women known to have had hypertension in the first half of pregnancy were excluded from the analysis ) . |
| 25 | Most of the larger calendar and diary publishers should make contact in the first two to three months of the year . |
| 26 | Lukic , normally rock solid , punched the ball into his own net to allow Rangers to draw level in the first leg of their European Cup tie . |
| 27 | He achieved notoriety in the first final by turning up ten minutes late for the start . |
| 28 | A small amount of Italian may be included to give bulk in the first year . |
| 29 | Personally I think whoever wrote the prospectus of Kidminster Green should be taken to court and charged with ‘ Gross Deceit of Parents and Pupils ’ because what actually takes place in the first twenty minutes of the school day bears absolutely no relation to what the prospectus claims should happen . |
| 30 | Imprinting usually takes place in the first few days after birth . |