Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a lot of preparation to do before first period . ’ |
| 2 | The quality and relevance of pupil work experience , curriculum development , careers education and guidance and other key partnership areas will be dependent on a teaching profession with a positive attitude to the role of business based on first hand experience . |
| 3 | In the event of a personal accident , immediate assistance should be sought from the member of staff trained in first aid responsible for your area . |
| 4 | The abbot of Cîteaux enjoyed at first a patriarchal , supervisory role like his brother of Cluny ; but in the course of the 1120s and 1130s the machinery of the Order was perfected , and in principle every abbot of the Order went to Cîteaux every year for general chapter , and every abbot visited his abbey 's daughter houses every year . |
| 5 | These are compared and the results used to assess the extent of the total user population ( N ) according to the formula N = Nl x N2/X , where Nl is the number of users identified by first sample , N2 is the number of users identified by second sample , and X is the number of users in N2 previously identified by Nl . |
| 6 | The impact of a series of I 's in theme position is not the same as the impact of a series of verbs inflected for first person , such as ‘ saw-I ’ , ‘ took-I ’ , etc. , where it is difficult to discern a theme line as clearly as in the pronoun-plus-verb combination . |
| 7 | The quart bottle of Nettles scheduled for first prize in the raffle was replaced by the top job and the winning ticket , always known on these occasions as ‘ Ken 's shilling ’ , went to Norvm Homstat . |
| 8 | In October 1339 the king sent Archbishop Stratford and the bishop of Durham back to England to expound his urgent needs and to extract the necessary funds , but the commons in parliament insisted on first consulting their constituencies . |
| 9 | Workmates at GEC in Manchester had at first joked when he said he was unable to stand after kneeling to pick something up . |
| 10 | While some publishers have attempted to counter the decline in print runs for first time publications by pushing titles into paperback others have been looking for ways to revitalise their hardback sales . |
| 11 | A college for women had been Mrs Reid 's dream from childhood , and in 1849 she put up the money to found Bedford College , hoping for hundreds of applications but in fact receiving at first only a few dozen , including those of her own friends . |
| 12 | Another ticket perhaps unique to the Bishop 's Castle Railway may have been the Golf returns from Craven Arms to Plowden issued in First Class at 1/6d , Second Class 1/- and Third Class 9d . |
| 13 | They decided therefore that at their next meeting they would devote themselves to matters of ‘ general policy affecting courses in business studies ’ , and they did in fact , in September , consider a draft memorandum on courses leading to first degrees , and questions regarding board membership and procedures for the consideration of courses . |
| 14 | Milan by contrast seems at first sight a city of the nineteenth century , the era of its greatest prosperity . |
| 15 | Half the chapters are written by people involved at first hand with the initiatives that they discuss . |