Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , of course , the payment of dividend itself re-instates the 40% tax rate and defeats the tax motive for incorporating in the first place . |
| 2 | After struggling in the first half when playing into the wind , they made certain later ; then came the news that Newcastle Gosforth 's defeat at Bedford had given West Hartlepool promotion . |
| 3 | Earlier in the day Joey finished second to brother Robert in the Shell 125cc race after leading for the first three laps . |
| 4 | Rainey , seeking his fourth straight world title , slid off the Santamonica circuit after leading for the first third of a race run in dry , sunny conditions . |
| 5 | They are sure to be stiff after riding for the first time . ’ |
| 6 | Butcher , whose career looked over last season because of a knee injury , will be offered a one-year contract this week after starring for the First Division club in three pre-season friendlies . |
| 7 | People who give up cigarettes very commonly report explicit ( and guilty ) dreams about smoking in the first few weeks , even though there is every reason to believe that sleep actually becomes less disturbed on withdrawal from nicotine . |
| 8 | However , many have argued that the dependency perspective failed to explain how the practices of the TNCs and those who act as their agents in the Third World actually operated to produce underdevelopment , particularly where something like the kinds of development that are taken for granted in the First World have occurred regionally or in particular industries in some Third World countries . |
| 9 | They act out their role in a number of scenarios with an actor , such as meeting for the first time , attracting the man 's attention , and putting him off the trail . |
| 10 | Joint authorship in an author 's first paper may be justifiable on grounds of inexperience , but the Science Citation Index ( SCI ) policy of indexing under the first author only will fail to identify the output of Ph D research if the researcher is not named first . |
| 11 | However , the under 20 age group includes 18–19-year-old mothers whose children , under conditions of relatively low levels of overall infant mortality , have about the same low , or even lower , risk of dying during the first year of life as those born to women in the age group 25–29 years and face a much lower risk than those born to mothers below 18 years of age . |
| 12 | The likelihood of dying in the first year is increased by no more than twofold . |
| 13 | Because the pattern of trading in the first year of the market was so confined by technical and political constraints it would be unsafe to generalise from it . |
| 14 | The clerk is required to make the application available for inspection during normal office hours by members of the public from the date of lodging until the first day of the meeting at which it is to be considered ( subs . |
| 15 | But despite leading after the first round with a 71 he failed to make the four-round cut . |
| 16 | The way it just sort of ends in the first sentence . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I have given up hope of racing in the first round at Snetterton , later this month , ’ he admitted . |
| 18 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |
| 19 | Reading Neale 's articles in the immediate context of teaching for the first time a course dangerously titled , ‘ Television Theory ’ ( is there such a thing ? ) , |
| 20 | She could recall the excitement of spending for the first time money she had actually earned . |
| 21 | The report starts by reviewing the pattern of spending in the first two years of the fund . |
| 22 | In three rounds of voting on the first day of the two-day congress held in Gdansk , Krzaklewski emerged as winner from a field of seven candidates . |
| 23 | They would n't of gone in the first place . |
| 24 | If you only want the bloody music , whe I , what 's the point of taping in the first place ! |
| 25 | He might have insisted , ‘ You can never recreate the feeling of winning for the first time , ’ but his palms were sweating with anticipation as the tapes went up . |
| 26 | Alex Ferguson , United 's manager , regards Robson 's presence in four of his team 's remaining six League matches as a realistic target and the captain is confident of playing in the first of them , at home to Southampton on Thursday . |
| 27 | ‘ But I wo n't know how bad the damage is until I see the physio tomorrow , and then I may have an idea if I have a chance of playing in the first league game . ’ |
| 28 | When elected in 1981 , the Mitterrand government harked back to the legacy of planning in the first postwar decades ( chapter 18 ) . |
| 29 | Civil war probably halted the work , with the result that 20th century tourists can still stumble on the stone axes where they were lain , and can study the progress of carving from the first outlines to the almost completed megalith ready to slide down from this rocky womb . |
| 30 | Finally , with ‘ Do n't walk on the wet edge , you 'll get a verruca ’ ringing in my ears , and ‘ Make sure your hair is BONE dry before you go out into the cold ’ ringing in my brain , we would lay siege to the fish-and-chip shop which was my main reason for going in the first place . |