Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | An important headstart for Swindon in the first leg of the play offs . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In his response , the General Secretary said ‘ Chairman and Delegates , before I move the IBOA motion , I would like to take this opportunity to place on record the debt owed by this Association to the Trade Union Movement arising from the events in the Republic of Ireland in the first half of 1992 . |
| 5 | Hemel Royals .. 60 Reykjavik ..... 64 ( Reykjavik win 118-105 on agg ) KODAK HEMEL ROYALS followed Manchester Giants out of European competition last night when they lost to Reykjavik of Iceland in the first round of the Korac Cup , writes Duncan Hooper . |
| 6 | OSF also confirmed version 1.2 of OSF/1 , released last month , is X/Open Co Ltd XPG4-compliant and says it plans to introduce a full-featured Mach microkernel version of OSF/1 in the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 7 | Dicey felt able to boil the British constitution down to " one essential principle " : " obedience by all persons to the deliberately expressed will of the House of Commons in the first instance and ultimately to the will of the nation as expressed through Parliament . " |
| 8 | Azumah Nelson of Ghana had earlier retained his WBC featherweight title when he fought a draw with Texan Jesse James Leija , and Californian Terry Norris stopped Joe Gatti of Canada in the first round to retain the WBC super welterweight title . |
| 9 | Azumah Nelson of Ghana had earlier retained his WBC featherweight title when he fought a draw with Texan Jesse James Leija , and Californian Terry Norris stopped Joe Gatti of Canada in the first round to retain the WBC super welterweight title . |
| 10 | A study of Cheshire in the first quarter of the fifteenth century , however , shows how the social ties of the gentry class were rooted in the locality . |
| 11 | Much of the learning and practice of the Egyptians was absorbed by Greek physicians , one of the best known of whom is Dioscorides , an army doctor who lived during the time of Nero in the first century AD . |
| 12 | On that final day there will be many like that , little earlier on in the book of Titus in the first chapter Paul says in verse sixteen they profess to no God , but by their deed they deny him |
| 13 | The feelings of joy and despair in these two passages are almost equally balanced , and the Jewish cry of delight on seeing the shore-line of Palestine in the first and the image of Arab guns and hopelessness on leaving Palestine in the second are even more relevant now than they were then . |
| 14 | Jimmy Connors after being knocked out of Wimbledon in the first round I 'VE spent time with her and she is everything that a man could want . |
| 15 | For example , Luke has only one story outside of Galilee in the first section of his Gospel ( the healing of Legion ( Luke 8:26–39 ) , whereas Matthew and Mark record a more extensive ministry in Gentile country ( Matt. |
| 16 | The available armed forces were expected to be fully committed to the defence of Italy in the first two years of a war . |
| 17 | Knocked out of Europe in the first few rounds , most Scottish footballers are readily available for mid-week court cases , and can not draw on Jimmy Johnstone 's range of excuses . |
| 18 | The victory follows a 2–0 aggregate defeat of Sahel Club of Niger in the first round . |
| 19 | Yes yes er and and the price it cost the er tax payers and rate payers of Nottingham in the first place to put it there yes . |
| 20 | The genesis of BT in the first years at Basle is , we shall see , problematic . |
| 21 | From government statistics ( Claus Moser ) and social theory ( Ernest Gellner ) to art history ( Ernst Gombrich ) and the Freudian legacy , a few thousand men and women born in the cities of Mitteleuropa in the first quarter of this century quickened the pulse of a smug and sluggish culture . |
| 22 | United played some classy football against Millwall in the first half … they looked good for a few goals but ended with nothing … |
| 23 | There 's no doubt it 's going to be difficult for us but if we play for 90 minutes the same way we did against Cork in the first half last week , we 'll return with something from the game . ’ |
| 24 | Having scraped through against Ballymoney in the first round , the Bannsiders proceeded to shock everyone by doing the same to the Ports and Glens . |
| 25 | an extra game for you tonight here 's Hereford 's moment of glory against Coventry in the first round of the Pilkington Cup at Coundon Road on Saturday … |
| 26 | They had the chances against Linfield in the first half , and both Michael O'Hagan and Martin McGaughey , playing for the first time against his old club , went close . |
| 27 | For much of the 1970s he was Lloyd 's vice-captain and led the team once , against Australia in the first match after Packer 's ‘ circus ’ had left town . |
| 28 | Britain 's unheralded side twice fought back from behind to snatch a deserved point against Poland in the first match of the Olympic qualifying tournament in Sheffield last night . |
| 29 | LLANELLI , the Schweppes Cup holders , have been drawn against Pontypridd in the first of the back-to-back semi-finals of the competition , to be played at the National Stadium on May 4 . |
| 30 | On the contrary , we now know a great deal about Jesus 's milieu , and far more than most practising Christians realise about Palestine in the first century — its sociology , its economy , its politics , its cultural and religious character , its historical actuality . |