Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [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 | Our marine insurance covers such damage or loss after the first £320 . |
| 3 | Then an individualised reintroduction programme was designed for each patient , usually starting with rice or potato and lamb or chicken on the first week . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The presence or absence of the first oral tentacle scale is denoted by + or -t . |
| 6 | The SEP can be viewed as a replacement or extension of the first postulate of SR . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( If you can provide free biscuits or food at the first meeting it may encourage a few more to come ! ) |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Hundreds of these youngsters were hearing French or English for the first time at , for example , a lecture on the Lake Poets . |
| 11 | ‘ ( 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | The fact that timing of the first births is closely related to age at first marriage or union is documented in Fig 1 . |
| 16 | Having something to do was better than sitting doing nothing other than wait for the first shell . |
| 17 | Then capping it all is a ceiling of absolute if intricate formality , a prelude and preparation to the first floor rooms that were never to be worked . |
| 18 | At the Restoration his ex-church and ex-crown lands and those belonging to the Butler ( Ormonde ) family in Ireland were all forfeit , but he managed to retain other Irish interests , through the friendship and protection of the first Baron Kingston , who as Sir John King [ q.v. ] had been a Cromwellian until 1659 . |
| 19 | DEC also announced NAS support for Sun and NAS Advantage — a higher level of conformance with DEC 's Network Application Support architecture , with SAS and Progress as the first applications to win the brand-level . |
| 20 | In 1882 he married Laura Julia , daughter of Baron Hermann de Stern and his wife Julia Goldsmid , and sister of the first Baron Michelham . |
| 21 | None the less the sheer ability and enthusiasm of the first generation established the value of the MRO and the important contribution he or she could bring to teachers and schools , both primary and secondary . |
| 22 | Then I darted breathless and sodden into the first hotel I came to . |
| 23 | A public road threads a delightful passage through woodlands in the company of river and loch for the first few miles , ending at a car park from which further progress is possible only by walking — and further progress should certainly be made . |
| 24 | The submission to the Department of Trade and Industry of the first annual reports by the audit regulatory bodies ( see ACCOUNTANCY , January , p 9 , and this issue , p 13 ) , has focused attention on both the audit process and the regulators themselves . |
| 25 | David White and McCreery were neck and neck throughout the first 125 race , after early leader Philip Neill dropped the eighth place on the third lap . |
| 26 | Previous abridgements of the Philosophical Transactions had been carried out on a piecemeal basis , whereas Baddam 's version provided continuity and uniformity for the first time ( see Nichols 's summary of them in the above , pp. 482–3 ) . |
| 27 | Monaghan came close to snatching victory but this would have been rough justice on Cavan who showed flair and fluency in the first half before fading . |
| 28 | It was only minutes before the Athletico gladiators took to the field that Chamden 's assistant manager , Frank Spanner , announced that owing to an outbreak of foot and mouth amongst the first team , they had been forced to include six second-team men in their squad at Billington Euphonia . |
| 29 | Their recommendation that capital grants are withdrawn from extended Section 43 areas depends heavily on the conviction of NP and LA Committees ( with often very strong agricultural representation ) to include all the relevant moor and heath in the first place . |
| 30 | He thought of Hugo , who had revolutionised his own thinking , who had made him challenge and question for the first time . |