Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Tam Dalyell held Linlithgow for Labour in the first Scottish result to be declared . |
| 2 | Sir Aubrey also became the first man in Test history to dismiss a namesake when he bowled F.W. for 7 in the first innings . |
| 3 | Thus by prioritizing intention and relegating consequences as accidents — conveniently turning a blind eye to strict liability-corporate officials can proceed to commit corporate crimes because they do not perceive them as such in the first place . |
| 4 | Hybrid Tea bush types After attending to the basics or primary aspects — removing completely all dead , diseased and feeble wood ( you wo n't find much of this in the first year ) — seek to prune to outward-pointing buds that will grow out along the line of growth , not sideways , so that this growth leads to an open cup or shuttlecock shape . |
| 5 | Over the operational period the Teacher Placement Service has increased the levels of activity from an estimated 1,900 teachers into industry in 1989 to in excess of 20,000 in the first two years . |
| 6 | There were six of those in the first section of the compartment . |
| 7 | There are n't many of those in the First Church . |
| 8 | London 's International Stock Exchange said it would cut 350 people from its staff of 2,800 in the first stage of a big slimming campaign . |
| 9 | This assumption allows Lucas to measure as the deviation of actual real output , from the value predicted from a regression of on a constant and time ( where time might take the value of 1 in the first year of the data period , 2 in the second and so on ) . |
| 10 | The Districts of Bedfordshire had the largest increase of any in the first period ( 10.3 per cent ) , followed by the second largest decrease ( -9.0 per cent ) in the second period , and a middling change in the third . |
| 11 | A gain of 400 in the first amplifier/filter will then produce an output of almost two and a half volts from the total earth 's field vector , avoiding overload and permitting a peak-to-peak measurement by rotating the core . |
| 12 | If they were smart enough to get bored , they would n't be doing a job like this in the first place . |
| 13 | England then had lost their last seven wickets for 58 in the first innings and eight for 67 in the second . |
| 14 | Of the known opioid users , 601 ( 77 per cent ) were male , which is a male to female ratio of 3.3:1-compared with 3.9:1 in the first survey ( see Table 3.4 ) . |
| 15 | Once the phase of immediate implementation was passed , this group came little by little to realign itself with many in the first group against whom they had in the conciliar years themselves taken quite a clear stand : a new status quo must be achieved if the Church was not to be upset by ceaseless change and debate . |
| 16 | Up 3–1 in the first set , she conceded 12 of the next 13 points and , at one stage in the second set , she lost another 14 consecutive points . |
| 17 | In the first half of the 1980s , there were only fifteen expropriations compared with 336 in the first half of the 1970s . |
| 18 | Salisbury followed a career-best six for 29 in the first innings with five for 54 in the second for match figures of 11 for 83 . |
| 19 | It was the same stadium that Melpomene , an unofficial woman entrant , stepped into in 1986 in the first Olympic marathon . |
| 20 | Student numbers have grown from 50,000 in the first year of operation to nearly 190,000 in session 1988–89 . |
| 21 | It was sold at Sotheby 's in 1946 in the first and greatest post-war Phillips sale for £900 . |
| 22 | It was first published in 1650 in the first edition of dances collected by John Playford and would certainly have been danced at the court of King Charles II . |
| 23 | For Arabic names , and other names with prefixes , it was found that there were inconsistencies in indexing : Al-Haddad appeared correctly in one instance , and on another occasion as Haddad ; El-Batroukh appeared in full in the first reference , then as Batroukh , and also as Batrouk . |
| 24 | For Arabic names , and other names with prefixes , it was found that there were inconsistencies in indexing : Al-Haddad appeared as Al-Haddad , and on another occasion as Haddad ; El-Batroukh appeared in full in the first reference , then as Batroukh , and also as Batrouk . |
| 25 | The proportion without electricity was to be reduced to less than one in ten in the first decade of nationalisation . |
| 26 | The relative risk of gastric cancer in cimetidine users decreased among men from 8.1 in the first year of follow up to a non-significant 1.3 7–11 years after first use of cimetidine ( Table V ) . |
| 27 | The present tax was introduced in 1965 in the first Budget of the Labour government elected in 1964 . |
| 28 | In women , however , the data suggested an increased risk of gastric cancer after seven years where the relative risk was 4.7 ( 1.7–10.3 ) after an initial decrease from 12.6 in the first year to 1.9 4–7 years after start of cimetidine use . |
| 29 | One sample in seven contained residues in 1986 and the level had fallen to one sample in 20 in the first eight months of this year . |
| 30 | Women with their womb-smelling warmth , their talcum powder and milky breasts had seen to that in the first four weeks of life . |