Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applicants should note that ‘ AS ’ levels are also accepted as part of the general entry requirements for admission to first degree or DipHE courses ( see page 51 ) , and may also be acceptable in place of an ‘ A ’ level in a specified subject for the purpose of satisfying course requirements . |
| 2 | Most holidays use scheduled services with Alitalia or Citalia Special Flights and offer the flexibility of flying into one airport , out from another with travel between cities by First Class rail . |
| 3 | It has taken Gary Pallister a long time to fulfil the promise that tempted Alex Ferguson to part with £2.3m but in America the Manchester United centre-half delivered a powerful case for elevation to first choice . |
| 4 | Later , after discussions with First Leisure , a consortium of junior players parents were hopeful they might be able to save the rink . |
| 5 | Also pardoned was Clair E. George , a former executive within the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) , who had been convicted on Dec. 9 on two felony charges of perjury and misleading Congress after a second trial [ for ending of first trial see p. 39043 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | HongMid possibly thinks that , now that the Japanese banks have abandoned their role as lender of first resort and some of the borrowers are not the forces they were , global banking might make sense again . |
| 8 | Group II was patients without signs or symptoms of toxoplasmosis at first assessment ( classes A1–A3 , B3 , and C3 ; 2 patients had cryptococcal meningitis , 3 Kaposi 's sarcoma ) but who produced toxoplasma-specific antibodies ( table ) . |
| 9 | Botany Bay — near Margate , not Sydney — is the location for Sunley Estates ' Northdown Park development , which offers a whole range of houses for first time buyers . |
| 10 | Children as young as six have joined the Darlington Red Cross youth group enjoying all kinds of activities from first aid training to camping holidays . |
| 11 | In a recent essay she claims to have had a strong sense of déjá-vu upon first reading theories of post-structuralism and postmodernism , for though she had never been able to articulate them clearly in conceptual form , she had discovered many of the concepts these theories present through writing fiction ( 1991a:165 ) . |
| 12 | It was the Carling tournament at Royal Birkdale , a big event with a great deal of money as first prize . |
| 13 | To comprehend all that was involved here , one must experience the full force of tragedy at first hand ; and here Act III of Tristan can be pointed to as a prime specimen of tragic art . |
| 14 | Courses prescribed by Head of Department in first year , and thesis in second . |
| 15 | Despite fall in first quarter profits ( see page five ) , Advanced Micro Devices Inc says it is hopeful that it will have record earnings for the third consecutive year : sales of Flash memories increased by more than 50% over the December quarter , while unit shipments of Am386 microprocessors was another record . |
| 16 | For some adults cohabitation before marriage is unthinkable ( in Asian families , for example ) ; for others the idea of marriage without first living together to get to know each other is equally unthinkable . |
| 17 | The United States and Vietnamese delegations , however , were reportedly particularly opposed to forcible repatriation [ see also p. 37185 ] , although one participant , quoted by Le Monde of May 4 , warned that " the patience of countries of first asylum [ Indonesia , Hong Kong , the Philippines and Thailand ] was not unlimited " . |
| 18 | Some may have the opportunity of a short-term secondment to industry to observe the world of work at first hand or to reconnoitre a promising field for curriculum in-put . |
| 19 | The data set was then stratified in the analysis by 5 year age groups , sex , calendar year of first diagnosis of case or control event , and district of residence at first diagnosis . |
| 20 | Estimates based on experience up to age 32 , mothers born in 1946 , by economic level of job before first child |
| 21 | The services on offer from the Community Relations Branch include the ‘ blue lamp disco ’ , a title evocative of George Dixon and consensus policing ; the organization of disco-dancing competitions and football tournaments with children from other police divisions in Belfast ; nature rambles ; access to outward-bound centres , some in Great Britain , the cost of attendance being borne by the RUC ; swimming lessons , including swimming for visually handicapped children ; and the provision in schools of classes on first aid , safety , and law , and of other general campaigns aimed at children , like the ‘ Say No To Strangers ’ campaign . |
| 22 | The Open Software Foundation will launch the next version of its Distributed Computing Environment , DCE 1.2 , at UniForum : it also confirmed version 1.2 of OSF/1 , released last month , is X/Open Co Ltd Portability Guide 4-compliant and says it plans to launch a full-featured Mach microkernel version of OSF/1 in first quarter 1994 . |
| 23 | The following adjustments to ( 8.8 ) have to be made for accrued interest : where N 1 = Number of days between first day of delivery month and next coupon payment date , N 2 = Number of days between last coupon payment date and next coupon payment date . |
| 24 | These relatively thick slices give good mechanical rigidity and wide zones of waste for first face lapping and final finishing , so that the completed section is made from that part of the slice unaffected by saw damage . |
| 25 | Komag Inc , Milpitas , California thin-film disk head and platter maker has won a $60m syndicated , unsecured two-year revolving line of credit with First Interstate Bank of California serving as the lead bank for the syndicate , with Comerica Bank-California , ABN AMRO Bank NV , Union Bank , Industrial Bank of Japan Ltd , and Standard Chartered Bank Plc . |
| 26 | Why then , given the emphasis on the value of education amongst first generation Caribbeans , do their children do so abysmally and , further , show little interest or desire to do well at school ? |
| 27 | Natural order in acquisition This hypothesis states that the discovered natural order of development of first language competence also applies to second language learning . |
| 28 | Part 1 focuses on the methodological issues concerning the information needs and systems for monitoring the academic progress of entrants to first degree programmes in relation to their entry qualifications . |
| 29 | This compares to an average UK-wide price of £44,050 and an average advance of £37,865 to first time buyers . |
| 30 | Excursions : sightseeing tours of Budapest during first weekend , one-day excursion organized py Pegazus Tours on request , 2 day weekend trips — riding tours , tours to the Danube Bend , to Lake Balaton , etc. on request , and one long weekend tour of the Hungarian countryside on request . |