Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 2 | Having successfully completed the first year of the new Teachers ' Training Course the students have gone away to grapple with their holiday assignments . |
| 3 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 4 | , personnel secretary at Ipswich , has successfully completed the first stage of a three year course in personnel management at the Suffolk College . |
| 5 | The RAF Squadron which claims to have accidently dropped the first bomb on Nazi Germany , has reached the final day in its long history . |
| 6 | So chaired the first part of the report I recommend that the structure as outlined erm , be approved and that the necessary recruitment take place as soon as possible . |
| 7 | However , the majority of these had only finished the first level of secondary education — the fifth and sixth years following four years of primary school . |
| 8 | Unfortunately life is not so simple , you have only passed the first hurdle . |
| 9 | He was omnipotent and instrumental in the fertilisation of the earth , having divinely bestowed the first rain . |
| 10 | ‘ You have already forgotten the first rule . |
| 11 | When the result was officially declared at a general committee meeting of the Birkenhead party last night , Mr Field had already won the first round of the ballot in the individual members section with 159 votes against his two challengers , Mr Paul Davies , a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , who secured 75 votes and Militant supporter , Ms Kathy Wilson , with 48 votes . |
| 12 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 13 | He had just turned the first furrow when a tiger walked up and said : " Peace be with you , friend . |
| 14 | DEVELOPERS are planning to clone an historic Liverpool terrace which has just undergone the first phase of a multi-million pound facelift . |
| 15 | you have already seen the first part of that intent . |
| 16 | Well the first one 's already had the first chance |
| 17 | Cypress has just got the first silicon on the HyperSparc CPU , according to Electronic Engineering Times , and it 's reportedly almost completely functional . |
| 18 | I guess it 's probably just that he glide up to the second part of the diphthong , has been displaced so you 've just got the first part of it left , |
| 19 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 20 | The small events in my study and dining-room , the large events crowding your office , have already dictated the first necessity of our inquiry : to write our own terms of reference . |
| 21 | Now , in 1980 , having largely escaped the first round of cuts by the Tory government , the Housing Corporation , which is a major source of funding to housing associations and co-ops , has been cut too , leading to an ever worsening situation for those ineligible for council housing or unable to buy into the private market . |
| 22 | I have already instanced the first chapter of Simenon 's Maigret 's Pickpocket , which consists of no more than a description of Maigret riding to work on a bus , as being as gripping as any chase sequence , from the absolute accuracy of the writing and its complete economy . |
| 23 | If , when you left the machine , you had already knitted the first row of the cycle , when you return you 'll knit two more of the same row , making a total of three . |
| 24 | She had just stuck the first stamp on the envelope when a friendly voice behind her said : ‘ Can you manage all right , missy , or do you want a lift up ? ’ |
| 25 | We 've just finished the first round of waivers for people receiving the Home Care Service , and the criteria that I was giving you reflected those , and so when you get your letter , if you feel that you 've got particular financial problems or particular family situations we should take into account , erm then do get in touch with us and we 'll process it and we 'll set out a procedure for you in the letter that we send . |
| 26 | Thereafter , Franco began to make a rhetorical distinction between the war against the United Kingdom and the United States , in which Spain took no part , and the war against the Soviet Union , which , in Franco 's view , was a new crusade against communism , of which Nationalist Spain had already fought the first battle during her Civil War . |
| 27 | Anyone who has got as far as saying this , has already thrown the first proposition overboard , because if it is ‘ the responsibility of management to do everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce prices ’ , then we would not need a commission to tell us that managements which raise prices are falling down on their responsibility . |
| 28 | - A letter appears in a national newspaper expressing disbelief that the writer has already spotted the first penny-for-the-guy collector/Christmas tree/artificial snow sprayed on shop window/Valentine cards on sale . |
| 29 | David , Grant and Stuart are due to complete their studies towards the end of 1995 but have already cleared the first hurdle . |
| 30 | Graham Taylor 's sidekick said : ‘ He has already achieved the first step by playing in the friendly against Spurs and it will be a very big step to get into a competitive game where there will be no quarter given or asked . |