Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] of first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 ] .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 " .
5 Natural order in acquisition This hypothesis states that the discovered natural order of development of first language competence also applies to second language learning .
6 Speed of despatch of first payment of benefit to clients within 10 days and 15 days of claim
7 Then , we will contrast each of these with accounts of first meetings with people we know well .
8 This bias was detectable when assessors were relatively unfamiliar with the students being assessed , and were aware of gender information through use of first names .
9 Optimality theory has been successful in explaining diversity in life-history traits such as age of first breeding , number of breeding attempts and number of offspring produced at each .
10 In all cases , whether in courts of first instance or not , an award of costs must be ‘ just and equitable . ’
11 Now Bruce , one of the game 's greatest characters , may have to quit Anfield in search of first team football .
12 ‘ Do n't tell me it 's a fish in need of first aid . ’
13 Arguing from studies of first language development has serious limitations .
14 He fitted a regression equation ( expressed in terms of first differences ) of the form where W t is the daily variance of returns on the index , measured in the same way as V t and M t is maturity .
15 Any other issues in terms of first aid , Mark ?
16 It 's Wright 's ambition to establish himself at Newcastle but if the future , in terms of first team football , looks bleak he will have to consider the Forest interest .
17 Save for the exceptional case of Mental Health Review Tribunals , legal aid does not cover representation before tribunals of first instance .
18 It is difficult to see how unrepresented claimants who fare so badly in tribunals of first instance could expect to fare better at the appellate level ; indeed representation has increased considerably over the past few years .
19 In the 1946 birth cohort , their effects were mediated mostly through differences in timing of first birth , the significance of which was underlined above ( Kiernan 1987 ) .
20 Errors in original entry — Wrong amount entered in book of first entry .
21 In order to identify new genes preferentially expressed in cytotrophoblasts of first trimester placenta , which display phenotypical characteristics similar to tumor cells , we have made a subtracted cDNA library .
22 In that case , Lord Denning M.R. said that the ‘ severe financial hardship ’ condition , applying to courts of first instance only , should not be construed so as ‘ to exclude people of modest income or modest capital who find it hard to bear their own costs .
23 Community Mothers are experienced mothers who are recruited in the areas and trained to give support and encouragement to parents of first babies in their own local communities with emphasis on child-rearing , health care , nutritional improvement and overall development .
24 In the economically more advanced countries , however , there does not exist a close relationship between age at first marriage and birth of first child , owing mainly to postponement of first birth through contraceptive use .
25 Examinations on courses at end of first year .
26 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 .
27 That decision has been regarded as definitive , by judges of first instance , as to the application of the Torfaen principle in this country ; but of course matters have changed following the collapse of injunction proceedings by local authorities after the decision of the Court of Appeal now under consideration .
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