Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the horrors he 'd seen , and the fierceness of his revulsion , some small part of him retained the fascination that had drawn him , Godolphin and their fellow experimenters together in the first place . |
| 2 | It was only the head of the diminutive Collins , clearing the ball off the line , which prevented Scotland from going two goals behind in the first minute of the second half , however . |
| 3 | The CBI rejects warnings that companies will hide behind the new anti-hacking laws , rather than make efforts to keep intruders out in the first place . |
| 4 | Now , twelve years later in the first province-wide ‘ beauty show ’ , the majority of Ulster unionists chose Ian Paisley as their spokesman . |
| 5 | Crete is a real must if you enjoy a combination of relaxation and exploration in a climate which attracted the Minoans here in the first place . |
| 6 | There was a lot more tetanus , but no more than was carried in here fifty years ago in the First War . |
| 7 | In Estonia and Latvia , pro-independence candidates seem to have won a majority of seats in the republics ' parliaments even in the first round of the local elections on March 18th . |
| 8 | Ironically , only three weeks earlier in the first event of the season , Laurette Maritz , from Johannesburg , had won the Marbella Open at Los Naranjos . |
| 9 | Devoid of ideas beyond booting hopeful balls forward in the first half , Alton got their act together in the second , coming from behind to take the points through sheer hard graft . |
| 10 | It was bad enough that he had this damn-fool obsession with programming — if he had got his priorities right in the first place , he and Emma might have made some headway . ’ |
| 11 | Er , consumer confidence fell away and U K consumers kept more of their cash in their pockets er , in fact , erm , they saved over two and a half billion pounds more in the first quarter of ninety one than they had in the same er , quarter of last year . |
| 12 | It is complemented by a number of other professional studies both in the first two years , e.g. Mathematics , Environmental Studies , Science , P.E . |
| 13 | But now the water 's evaporating , killing the tiny fish that brought the birds here in the first place , and as the food source disappears , many birds are dying . |
| 14 | The importance of getting a good start now becomes obvious , since if you fall only a few metres behind in the first minute after the start you fall into everyone else 's dirty wind and drop even further back . |
| 15 | ‘ We gave two stupid free kicks away in the first half and did n't clear them at all . |
| 16 | Newcastle , nine points ahead in the First Division , let Gascoigne go to Spurs for £2 million and Terry Venables has first option on him should he wish to return to England . |
| 17 | Newcastle , nine points ahead in the First Division , let Gascoigne go to Spurs for £2m . |
| 18 | Inspector Morse returns to our screens tonight in the first of what will be the penultimate series . |
| 19 | A series of documents both in the First and in the Second Book of Maccabees reflects — I believe quite authentically for the majority of them — the decline of Syrian power in Judaea , but does not offer any precise clue to the intentions of Antiochus IV in Hellenizing Jerusalem . |
| 20 | That could help prevent the children falling into the same cycle of problems which put their fathers here in the first place |
| 21 | The English had not taken any important part in this ; voyages from Bristol at the end of the fifteenth century had reached a few points in North America and had opened up cod fisheries off Newfoundland , and in the 1550s London merchants had used the northern searoutes to start trading with Russia , but most of the nation 's energies overseas in the first half of the sixteenth century had been devoted to the last and least rewarding of the attempts to conquer France . |
| 22 | If the writer also uses adverbial expressions initially in the first sentence of this new part of his text , then we might say we have overwhelming evidence that the writer is marking a ‘ topic-shift ’ in his discourse . |