Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those things which confer privilege ( quality shops , education , flats and health care ) are acquired through privilege in the first place ; they can not be had for money . |
| 2 | ( The second vote was to be of significance only if a majority expressed a desire for change in the first . ) |
| 3 | They still did n't want both openers out for ducks in the first two overs , nor Jones to follow for 5 . |
| 4 | Lord Salmon said he could find no sensible basis for the " astonishing " proposition that the valuer should be liable for negligence in the first instance , but not in the second . |
| 5 | He was offered constituencies ; it was taken for granted that he would stand for Parliament in the first post-war elections . |
| 6 | A second round of voting , in constituencies which had not been able to complete their quota of candidates , was announced for May 8 ; in this round , the candidates with most votes would be declared elected , even if they received less than the 30 per cent required for election in the first round . |
| 7 | The cancellation served to block the probable overall electoral victory of the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) , which had emerged as winner in the first round of voting on Dec. 26 . |
| 8 | An important headstart for Swindon in the first leg of the play offs . |
| 9 | thought that , … in preference to the suggestion that there might be more frequent recommendations for the exercise of the Royal Prerogative , it might be possible to introduce a system similar to that adopted in some parts of the United States under which a distinction was made between murder in the first and second degree , the death penalty being reserved for cases of the former kind . |
| 10 | Search unemployment can be seen as part of the annual turnover of the job market — firms rid themselves of workers who have proved to be unproductive or unsatisfactory in some way , and workers quit jobs which have failed to meet their expectations or which were intended only as stop-gaps in the first place . |
| 11 | And er I 've already referred to a byproduct of over-provision that sites are then moved on to sh car showrooms and erm supermarkets which are needs which or demands which would probably not have justified the allocation of the land for industry in the first place but once the land is allocated to industry it seems to be thought that no harm would be done by allocating those to something else . |
| 12 | There was one , there was one last comment that I missed out there that it was the erm the permission to proceed with the product recommendations , you were wanting to proceed with recommendations but you had n't got the commitment off Steven in the first place so you were suggestion recommendations and what ! |
| 13 | The scholar , Hector Boece , first Principal of Aberdeen University , writing about Ayrshire in the first few years of the 16th century , observed that , , another indication of the age of the legend . |
| 14 | Forward sales for completion in the first half of this year are sufficient to meet internal targets , Mr Maunders said . |
| 15 | It was destroyed in 1915 during action in the First World War , then was rebuilt after 1918 to the original design . |
| 16 | The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee ran the national campaign for recruits in the first eighteen months of the war , through party rather than national channels . |
| 17 | The 1936–37 season back home was Darling 's last , but it embraced three fine achievements at the MCG : centuries in the South Australia and Queensland matches , and a recall for the third Test match , in which Australia began their fightback after losses in the first two Tests . |
| 18 | Clearly that would require a further erm sixteen hectares to be found compared to the hundred and forty five because the hundred and forty five did include an allowance for flexibility in the first place ? |
| 19 | I understand that Border , 37 , was within one phone call of losing his job when umpire Steve Randell reported him along with fast bowler Merv Hughes for dissent in the first Test at Brisbane earlier this month . |
| 20 | According to the Home Office statistics the number of people applying for asylum in the first quarter of 1992 more than halved , from 3730 a month last year to 1730 a month this year . |
| 21 | Both the Britons ' and the IFL literature contained lurid tales of alleged Jewish responsibility for crime , the white slave traffic , for casualties in the First World War , for corrupting public life and for financial malpractices and banking irregularity . |
| 22 | He has sent off some ideas to Africa for inclusion in the first draft , which should be ready in about ten days . |
| 23 | Plans for broadcasting in the First Five Year Plan included the setting up of community listening points , the building of regional and satellite stations , the replacement of transmitters and the provision of a tape transcription service for the better preservation and use of recorded material at Broadcasting House . |
| 24 | ‘ Parents who do n't want their kids taught about homosexuality in the first grade are not bigots . |
| 25 | It 's no more astonishing than was the growth of industrialisation in the first place . |
| 26 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
| 27 | And , as his administration staggered through its winter of discontent in the first two months of 1979 , Callaghan 's famed skills as a crisis-manager seemed to desert him . |
| 28 | Six specialist workers obtained a total of £306,794 in the first four months of operation of the full scheme in 1985 . |
| 29 | All this raises the question of why the Reagan administration wants to quit the business of satellites in the first place . |
| 30 | We 've seen that with the City technology colleges , which are nobody talks about , surprisingly enough , when we 've discovered that actually industry is n't remotely interested in them , and of course in the first year of an opted out school one might see a bit of palm crossing with silver . |