Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , where the contribution , if any , is not sufficient to make up the difference , the Legal Aid Board has a first charge on any property , including money , recovered or preserved by the assisted party in the proceedings . |
| 2 | The President appoints a First Vice-President and Prime Minister who must be an elected member of the National Assembly , and a Cabinet which may include non-elected members and is collectively responsible to the legislature . |
| 3 | The home side dominated a first half climaxed by Quinn 's goal after 33 minutes . |
| 4 | The violence prompted a first wave of mainly Hutu refugees to flee to Rwanda and to Zaïre . |
| 5 | The drawing suggests a first investment that is very risky for the speculator . |
| 6 | I had arrived at Ullapool by bus in mid-afternoon , determined to satisfy an ambition to make a first visit to Lochinver . |
| 7 | Moreover , the trivial eigenproblem gives a first approximation to 1 as the Rayleigh quotient. ( ii ) If Yo happens to be the correct set Y , the method makes this apparent at once , for then in view of ( 3 ) unc so that , on use of ( 5 ) unc Thus both matrices are diagonal , so that the eigenproblem is again trivial , having the solution |
| 8 | At 29 , the head Raider does not appear to accept that his best years are behind him , bad news perhaps for Jonathan Davies , for whom the press conference provided a first glimpse of a man whose reputation travels before him . |
| 9 | Argyll Group reported a first half profit before tax of £205m ( v £178m ) . |
| 10 | The move marks a first step into Europe by Tesco , which has been tipped for a Euro deal for some time . |
| 11 | Alan Davies ' men had good reason for jubilation as a spirited fight-back earned a first Championship win since 1989 . |
| 12 | So , a text containing a first person narrative by a narrator involved in the story claiming things about the world by indirect inferences would probably be found more to the left of the network than a text told in the third person by an omniscient narrator directly asserting claims about the world . |
| 13 | HTV last night claimed a first victory in its fight to prevent a rival ITV company swallowing it up . |
| 14 | When you reach a signpost saying White Creek and Arnside , cross the broken wall , turn left and soon you emerge onto a grassy clearing giving a first class view onto the sands — and no wood ants ! |
| 15 | You never get a second chance to make a first impression . |
| 16 | So the Nash Ensemble 's concert offered a first half of Mozart and Brahms which left one feeling vaguely unsatisfied . |
| 17 | First-year Engineering comprises a first half course which is common to all four specialisations and which is followed by a second half in which one or more of the major engineering disciplines are studied in greater depth . |
| 18 | WITH a meaningless tournament offering a first prize of $2 million , tennis finally made the grade as a cuckoo 's nest this week . |
| 19 | In 1985 , however , the Ministry of Agriculture took a first step towards meeting environmentalists ' objections , with a new ‘ Guidance for Drainage Authorities ’ on investment appraisal . |
| 20 | I would like the Bill to contain a first offence penalty of a six-month custodial sentence — with no remission and no time off for good behaviour — in a properly funded and managed institution . |
| 21 | ‘ However , it does not alter our stated objective to provide a first rate competitive alternative service to the tunnel , ’ said a spokeswoman . |
| 22 | Royal Insurance reported a first half loss before tax of £79m ( v £97m ) ; its dividend was reduced from 11.25p to 2p . |
| 23 | The jesus man had a first class in history behind him , and a first class with distinction in English Literature behind him , and was president of the university mountaineering club . |
| 24 | For the first time since it was shown at the Berlin Secession in 1902 , the National Gallery has reconstructed Edvard Munch 's ‘ The Frieze of Life ’ ( until 7 February 1993 ) , a loose association of forty or fifty pictures illustrating the important and highly autobiographical themes of love , anxiety and death , to which the artist makes a first reference in his correspondence in 1893 . |
| 25 | On 9 January 1991 a 25 year old woman with asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus infection received a first aerosol of pentamidine isethionate for primary prevention of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia : 300 mg of pentamidine isethionate was dissolved in 10 ml sterile water and inhaled in sitting position , over 15–25 minutes , via an ultrasonic nebuliser . |
| 26 | Now manager Denis Smith has to decide whether to risk Dziekanowski against West Ham tonight as City chase a first home win . |
| 27 | This project continues a first phase of research funded by the Office of the Data Protection Registrar , the Office of Telecommunications and the Department of Law in the University of Sheffield to investigate current law and practice in a number of European member states and in the United States with the aim of contributing to current policy debates and examining the handling of the issues of privacy and new technology by different legal and administrative cultures . |
| 28 | The company made a first half loss before tax of £129m , compared with £86m profit a year earlier . |
| 29 | The company reported a first half loss before tax of £8.8m ( v £2.4m ) . |
| 30 | In order to obtain a first idea of how space–time behaves across the horizon , consider an instrumented space probe falling along a radial path into a black hole . |