Example sentences of "[conj] in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hotman 's case is particularly interesting in that where in the first version the word populus was used , in the 1576 edition the term ordines , meaning orders or estates , was inserted to " clarify " the meaning , or , we might suspect , to reassure those alarmed by the dangerously democratic sound of the first version . |
| 2 | However , it is too soon to say with any degree of certainty to what extent computerization spells the end of TNC jobs in the Third , or in the First World ( Caulkin , 1989 ) . |
| 3 | Although in the first war years the Party substantially cut down the number of meetings devoted to ‘ training ’ in ideological matters — which had never enjoyed much popularity — and concentrated in its regular work in the localities on trying to fulfil ‘ the popular demand for a more lively participation in the events of the day ’ , as one report put it , it was unable to build up much interest in Party work or to enhance the popularity of the local Party organizations . |
| 4 | What is clear is that this golden age did not exist in the mid 1950s , in the first part of this century nor in the first half of the last century . |
| 5 | He pointed to a ‘ desperate need to educate the population better ’ and said that in the first half of the Eighties the engineering workforce fell by a third and the number of graduates employed increased by half . |
| 6 | County NatWest calculates that in the first half of the year to September 1991 , Hanson made £150m interest on its cash pile and £60m-70m from selling a subsidiary — in all , 37% of its total pre-tax profits of £588m . |
| 7 | UK Management Buyouts 1992 , the annual review for The Centre for Management Buyout Research at the University of Nottingham , notes that in the first half of 1992 , buyouts and buy-ins accounted for 29.6% of the value of all transfers of ownership in the UK and nearly 60% of the total number . |
| 8 | The serial usage is arranged so that in the first half , the ‘ O ’ , ‘ I ’ , ‘ R ’ , and ‘ RI ’ versions are all used at once , as follows : Violin 1 — ‘ O ’ beginning on C ; Violin 2 — ‘ R ’ of the same series as that of Violin 1 ; Viola — ‘ RI ’ of the series beginning on B♭ ; Cello — ‘ I ’ of the series beginning on B♭ . |
| 9 | Of course you could try a tantalising headline but do remember that in the first instance you have to attract the attention and interest of the journalist or editor , who is not going to be tempted quite as easily as the reader might be . |
| 10 | Jack Straw , Labour Party spokesman on education , claims that in the first instance the Education Reform Bill gave the Secretary of State 175 new powers , but that these increased to 415 during the Bill 's passage through Parliament . |
| 11 | But it was an extension that in the first instance was of greatest benefit to the middle classes , who were , in both a social and a transportation sense , the mobile classes . |
| 12 | I think I see one problem with , we 've put site investigation and flagged the price I think , whereas if we 'd said that we require site investigation work to be undertaken by the project manager , we 've really got to decide the level of site investigations , so that in the first instance we 've got ta approach the soil mechanics and determine from them what , what we need from them . |
| 13 | I refer to the decision of the Labour Group that in the first instance all Conference items should be submitted to the Labour Group Executive for approval before being placed on a committee agenda . |
| 14 | I think that the hon. Gentleman knows that in the first instance it is for the mineral planning authority to decide whether to revoke the planning consent for extractions and whether such action is warranted . |
| 15 | Chairman , thank , thank you very much indeed erm Chairman , I will in fact and er perhaps if I read that in the first instance I have n't circulated it erm if I read that the first instance it will set the of what I have to say . |
| 16 | Finally in this section , it is worth pointing out that in the first Unit of this course we learnt that organisations which were based on an open system ( where information flowed in and out through a ‘ permeable boundary ’ to its environment and publics and where adjustment was made in the light of feedback ) , were more able to adapt to change and continue to prosper . |
| 17 | Notes by the Rector about his establishments survive and we learn that in the first year of the new Sunday School there were 45 male and 32 female attendees . |
| 18 | CIMA , an original signatory , reports that in the first year it has ‘ set up an informal network to encourage women to stand for office on the Council ’ . |
| 19 | If it is always assumed that they are intellectually inferior , what else is there for them to do … every time teachers are constantly amazed by the fact that in the first year they have at the moment there are two or three really bright West Indian boys , and it 's of constant amazement to people like Mr G … ‘ my goodness he 's bright where does he get it from ’ . |
| 20 | We are anxious that all industrial customers should have access to competitively priced electricity and I am pleased to say that an independent survey showed that in the first year after privatisation three quarters of those customers experienced at least a 10 per cent . |
| 21 | Thank you chairman , erm , I 've heard what Mr said then I think it is worth reminding ourselves that a significant number of members of this council are new to this council and it 's therefore quite right and proper that in the first year of the business of this council that there should be a significant number of seminars and briefings to enable members to fully acquaint themselves with the business of the council the working of the er , operations of this council so that we can in fact make informed decisions er in the future . |
| 22 | It seems that in the first year of life you 're more likely than at any other time in your life to die at the hands of somebody else . |
| 23 | They were prompted by new figures showing that in the first quarter of 1993 Britain 's GDP , excluding its output of crude oil , grew by 0.6% and its total GDP by 0.2% . |
| 24 | TI said that in the first quarter it will start knocking off Tsunami derivatives , differentiating features such as cache size , floating point and Sbus according to customer demand . |
| 25 | Mindful again of the difficulties of testing the significance of the data statistically , we note that in the first scene Anderson only allocates a turn clearly to McKendrick six times out of 43 turns ( 14 per cent ) . |
| 26 | I think that er the point was brought out very recently , I ca n't remember even by whom , of the fact that in the first paragraph it says the most needy in our society and further on it says for those in most financial need . |
| 27 | But sightings of the young lady continued and the curious point was that people used to say that in the first compartment next to the tender there would often be the strong scent of roses . |
| 28 | The practical significance of this distinction is that in the first group of cases there is a greater likelihood of the necessary information being passed rapidly to the defendant , and that will in turn meet the objective of the Convention 's authors and also the standards set by ‘ due process ’ tests . |
| 29 | Here her expressive rubato is freer , so that in the first movement the opening theme is more impulsive , and her freedom in the second subject vividly conveys the sort of magic you find in her live performances . |
| 30 | Although visiting grandparents was the basis of many significant memories and relationships , it is surprising that in the first set of interviews there are even more significant mentions of grandparents who at some point lived in the same house as their children . |