Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applicants holding GCE A-level passes of sufficiently high standard in appropriate subjects may be offered exemption from all or part of the first year of most honours degree courses ; indeed such opportunities may also be available to applicants offering other qualifications . |
| 2 | Most scientists expect that it will show , as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki , that low doses of radiation have no detectable effect on humans or animals in the first years after an accident . |
| 3 | Our marine insurance covers such damage or loss after the first £320 . |
| 4 | ( or smartdrv.exe as the first command in AUTOEXEC.BAT if you 're using Windows 3.1 ) . |
| 5 | Then an individualised reintroduction programme was designed for each patient , usually starting with rice or potato and lamb or chicken on the first week . |
| 6 | If , on the other hand , he refuses to accept this relationship and responds from his own adult ( Y ) on a ‘ do n't talk to me like that ’ basis to the adult or child of the first individual , this is a new stimulus and the transaction has broken down . |
| 7 | That led to the Royal arms we know today — England or Scotland in the first and fourth quarters , Ireland in the third quarter and Scotland or England in the second . |
| 8 | The presence or absence of the first oral tentacle scale is denoted by + or -t . |
| 9 | The SEP can be viewed as a replacement or extension of the first postulate of SR . |
| 10 | An apparently unimportant meeting or incident in the first half of the month or around the 27th may well contain the seeds of something far greater . |
| 11 | ( If you can provide free biscuits or food at the first meeting it may encourage a few more to come ! ) |
| 12 | In the more severe cases of mental handicap , there are various specific causes , such as the infection of the foetus in the womb , a disease in the parent , or a disease or infection in the first few days of life . |
| 13 | Applications or nominations for the first award should be sent to the international affairs officer , RSC , Burlington House , Piccadilly , London , to arrive no later than Friday 29 May 1992 . |
| 14 | To increase the chances of success , Louis offered Henry two teams of mediators ; if he did not like the methods or conclusions of the first set , he could turn to the second . |
| 15 | Hundreds of these youngsters were hearing French or English for the first time at , for example , a lecture on the Lake Poets . |
| 16 | ‘ ( a ) setting out with full particulars all dealings by the first defendant or anyone on his behalf with : ( i ) the moneys referred to in schedule 1 to this order ; and ( ii ) all and any sums or assets representing or derived from those moneys ; and … ( c ) exhibiting copies of all documents which relate to the receipt or transfer of , or dealing with all such assets , and in particular all such documents as are set out in schedule 3 hereto and are in the possession custody or power of the first defendant . |
| 17 | Half a dozen wild rabbits were all the stock I observed upon them with scarcely a blade or leaf of herbage to keep even these alive ; doubtless through the folly or madness of the first occupiers ( after appropriation ) in converting them to arable farms instead of sheep walks and rabbit warrens ’ . |
| 18 | Clearly , we have made great progress in bringing inflation under control and we shall soon have a lower rate of inflation than Germany for the first time in a generation . |
| 19 | Egypt announced that its earnings from tourism fell by more than 50% in the first four months of the year , following a terrorism campaign by Islamic fundamentalists . |
| 20 | Small investors will pay less than institutions for the first instalment though how much less will not be known until June 29 after the international offer closes . |
| 21 | Small investors will pay less than institutions for the first instalment , although how much less will not be known until June 29 after the international offer closes . |
| 22 | He decided that operations in the first instance were to be confined chiefly to level driving at Paddy Etid ( the Levers Water side of the grant ) , and also to cross-cut to the Bonsor Vein both in , and below , Red Dell . |
| 23 | Cadence Design Systems Inc warns that turnover for the first quarter will be down substantially from the same period last year and it will likely see a loss for the quarter . |
| 24 | Little more than $200,000,000 for the first year was pledged , however , with some $60,000,000 of this on concessional terms ; further pledges of $150,000,000 were forthcoming for the 1991-93 period . |
| 25 | With a smothered curse he pulled her into his arms and began to kiss her , using a more powerful argument than words as the first touch of his mouth on hers sent everything out of Leonora 's head other than the fact that she loved and wanted this man to the point where she was almost ready to believe that she 'd been mistaken . |
| 26 | To take one example out of many , the native Englishman D. H. Lawrence reached just the same conclusion as Pound at just the same time , and Lawrence 's letters record it ; he concluded , just as Pound did , that England after the First World War was , for the artist , uninhabitable . |
| 27 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Jan. 30 reported that figures for the first nine months of 1991 showed Japan to be Vietnam 's second most important trading partner , after Singapore . |
| 28 | Deposits can be made by regular savings or by lump sum deposits subject to a maximum of £9,000 over the five year period but you may not deposit more than £3,000 in the first year or £1,800 in any succeeding year . |
| 29 | Microvitec Plc , Bradford told the annual meeting that trading in the first three months of 1993 ran ahead of budget : the firm 's chairman , James Bailey , said ‘ we remain profitable throughout the group , and we look forward to a successful outcome to the current year . ’ |
| 30 | It was a large basement , with no street-level exposure , and although sales for the first two days were excitingly high , the next few months were a disaster . |