Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , within three minutes , Mark Bailey had rounded their defence for the first of his side 's dozen tries . |
| 2 | The contract for the first of these smaller cutters was given to Brooke Marine Shipyard at Lowestoft . |
| 3 | Tomorrow he delivers a lecture Beyond the Rhetoric : a cool look at architectural judgement as the first in a series by new professors at Leeds Polytechnic . |
| 4 | All the smart money for the first to finally come up with the goods is on John Lasseter of Pixar , the perennial star of animation festivals and the winner of the 1989 animation Oscar for the short film Tin Toy . |
| 5 | The bravest man of the week has to be grand prix driver Martin Donnelly … he was back in a formula one car for the first since a near fatal crash in Spain … |
| 6 | This week , each will be hoping to move up a gear for the first of the year 's major championships , even if Augusta do still insist on calling it a tournament . |
| 7 | As a woman 's teenage children leave home , she may interpret the loss of the first as a welcome freedom . |
| 8 | Even more exciting for me was the news that our Principal , Reg Clarke , had decided to entrust me with the command of the first of the 1.5 million pound cruisers to be named Searcher . |
| 9 | In 1902 Freeman became the co-author of the first of his fictional works to become well known , The Adventures of Romney Pringle , written under the pseudonym of Clifford Ashdown , and the fruit of Freeman 's collaboration with the physician John James Pitcairn . |
| 10 | The second exercise is a repeat of the first with some significant changes in the rules and the use of Figure 11.2 . |
| 11 | The genus appeared suddenly in the Atlantic at the end of the Pliocene without any local antecedent forms , and it is thought that transarctic migrations of several Pacific genera , including Buccinunl and Searlesja as well as Nucella , occurred through the Bering Strait , between a half and one million years before the onset of the first of the Pleistocene glaciations ( Franz and Merrill , 1980 ) . |
| 12 | The effect of the first past the post electoral system exaggerated trends in regional voting patterns , leaving Labour with one seat only in each of the South East ( excluding Greater London ) , South West and East Anglia — out of 108 , 45 and 20 respectively . |
| 13 | TOTTENHAM keep faith with England youth international goalkeeper Ian Walker when they travel to Notts County tonight in search of the first of two wins which Peter Shreeves , their manager , believes will confirm their First Division status . |
| 14 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |
| 15 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |
| 16 | Oakes is going for Ballasarly in the two thirty five Cheltenham , Leslie 's going for Leotard that 's the top weight in the first at one twenty five er oh in the second . |
| 17 | Erm , that is , is has been revised with effect from the first of April , nineteen-ninety-four , to incorporate proposals for a new system of capital accounting . |
| 18 | Table 2.1 gives additional information about these two broad industrial areas , showing that it is in the retail trade and the hotels and catering industry in the first of these , and public administration , education , medical services , " other services to the public " , recreational and cultural services and personal services in the second , where the proportion of temporary workers is greatest and/or where an important share of the temporary workforce is to be found . |
| 19 | De Gaulle did not address the electorate in the first of two rounds : Opposition politicians hardly ever ( or never ) seen on TV- did , and had a considerable impact . |
| 20 | probably a cup final and they 're still playing football on the first of May . |
| 21 | If there was a resolution on the agenda today to increase the subscription , and I hasten to add there is n't , but if there was then that increase by convention would take effect on the first of January nineteen ninety four but the full value of the increase would not reach our income and expenditure account until the year nineteen ninety five to ninety six and this means that we are not well placed to respond to short-term financial problems . |
| 22 | Freedom of movement for individuals will be one of the cornerstones of the new Europe , enshrined in the single Europe act , due to come into effect on the first of January 1993 . |
| 23 | Paragraph one point four , legislation , figures prominent in here and Mr , legislation of course is currently a changing scheme in our service and perhaps the most important new act for several years is the New Road and Street Works Act , which is scheduled to be in action on the first of January next year and this will have two main effects for us , firstly the Local Highway Authority that is ourselves in Suffolk will be in a far stronger position to manage or influence or control the work of public utilities in public highways . |
| 24 | I believe that an important part of the first of the new clauses tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) is the independence of interpreters . |
| 25 | It was included as part of the first of the twice-annual Eurobarometer surveys . |
| 26 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 27 | They have not yet accepted the defeat that is the essential component of the first of the 12 steps . |
| 28 | Certainly in the case of the first of those conditions the present appellants would find themselves in considerable difficulty . |
| 29 | The latest tomb to be found is situated some 250m west of the first at the base of an adobe truncated pyramid called Huaca Loro and contains a wide range of funerary offerings weighing in all around 1.2 tons . |
| 30 | The option always lists the SPRs in descending numerical order of identifier , presenting the highest SPR identifier in the specified range as the first in the list . |