Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work has voices in the first two movements , but is essentially for solo organ , dazzlingly played by Gaston Litaize , who clearly enjoys himself of the magnificent beast which lives in the church of St. Francois-Xavier in Paris . |
| 2 | Inveterate trafficker in traffic systems Peek Plc told its annual meeting yesterday that it saw signs of a trading upturn in March : ‘ Although trading conditions in the first two months of the current year continued to be difficult , we have seen signs of improvement in March — there is currently a significant amount of enquiry and bidding activity and it is expected that this will translate into firm orders , ’ chairman Ken Maud said . |
| 3 | This number is seen to be much higher in the later 1970s and in the 1980s , supporting the view that more and more school-leavers were then finding it increasingly difficult to obtain jobs in the first six months after leaving school . |
| 4 | Although , as discussed in Chapter 4 , most search consultants encounter difficulties in attracting candidates on behalf of clients who insist on remaining anonymous for at least the initial stages of the search , many clients see this as a real plus in using headhunters in the first place . |
| 5 | Well , at that point we 've got to three o'clock and the end of the term , erm I 'll take up Totem and Taboo , and its more forward lis looking aspects in the first lecture of er , next term , and I wish you all a happy Christmas , and new year , and hope you have a good , a good vacation and look forward to seeing you here again , the first Thursday of next term . |
| 6 | Is not the question more one of how we select and appoint committees in the first place ? |
| 7 | Uncle Vernon , goaded by the presence of the traveller with the skin grafts , had ruined the festive meal with recollections of his march across France and an encounter in a partially demolished farmhouse outside Lille with a white-haired woman of thirty who as a small child had suffered atrocities in the First World War . |
| 8 | Those who sell dogs in the first place have a great deal to answer for when it comes to explaining why the human-dog relationship is so often a disastrous mismatch . |
| 9 | Many élite families made fortunes in the first half of the nineteenth century and then invested their wealth in agriculture , usually in plantations . |
| 10 | Smacking , says Leach , will not help the toddler 's anger , frustration and fear , which create tantrums in the first place . |
| 11 | A NAFTA Trade Commission , taking precedence over the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) dispute settlement mechanism , would be established to handle disputes in the first instance . |
| 12 | Students who obtain passes in the first year subjects but do not intend to complete the HND may apply for the award of the HNC . |
| 13 | But he told me that , in the eyes of the law , theft is actually a lesser charge than handling stolen goods If there were n't people handling stolen goods then nobody would nick things in the first place . |
| 14 | In a safety initiative designed to reduce accidents in the home , the Kitchen Specialists Association ( KSA ) has launched a new booklet — Greater Safety in the Kitchen — which highlights some of the more common causes of accidents in the home and offers advice on how to avoid mishaps in the first place . |
| 15 | Others had n't bothered to buy tickets in the first place . |
| 16 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 17 | Perverse conditioned psychological needs require some of our best thinking to solve — but then we should n't have let them become habits in the first place . |
| 18 | Terrapins have been left here and in similar ponds around the country by bored pet owners for years , but the numbers have been growing thanks to children who have tired of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle craze that led them to buy terrapins in the first place . |
| 19 | Immerse articles in the first sink in hot detergent solution ( 50–6O°C ) . |
| 20 | An art shop in the city of London sold four cotton based portfolios in the first week and doubled this in the second . |
| 21 | Provided that appropriate proportions of unc are subtracted from unc as they stand to give zeros in the first column , the array of numbers on the left in unc can be written down ; when the rest of unc is found , the third element of unc can be inserted , and so on . |
| 22 | After Mironov and Chapman had twice exchanged penalties in the first half , Chapman 's smart 30-yard dropped goal five minutes after the break put Cornwall ahead for the first time while Mishakov was off the field with a shoulder injury . |
| 23 | Many children develop allergies in the first few weeks or months of life , and often these improve as the years go by . |
| 24 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
| 25 | The software included a second k-D matrix which recorded errors in the first matrix . |
| 26 | A smaller catheter to enable us to study infants in the first two months of life is eagerly awaited , as this is the age group in which most oesophagopharyngeal reflux occurs . |
| 27 | Since 1977 , when a detailed inquiry into child deaths was instituted in Gwynedd , no children admitted for life threatening events in the first four years of life have subsequently died ( apart from two children with known epilepsy who have died during fits ) . |
| 28 | Before they acquired firearms in the first years of the |
| 29 | If children make mistakes in the first consonant or initial blend , and are older than seven , they need immediate help with reading , and especially with phonic training . |
| 30 | In the rest of the country , about half of roughly 100 candidates who won seats in the first round were linked with the pro-Rafsanjani ‘ pragmatic ’ faction . |