Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | the foundation U , yo you 've got the option to start the teaching certificate in the first year . |
| 2 | The series moves from sentence/paragraph level in the first book , through whole text level in the second ; the third book presents real ( but slightly modified ) academic texts ; and finally , in the fourth book , genuine unsimplified texts are used . |
| 3 | Izvestiya of March 12 reported that officials were predicting a budget deficit in the first quarter of around 10 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) against the government 's target of 1 per cent . |
| 4 | Rossiskaya gazeta of May 14 carried budget plans approved by the Supreme Soviet and dated April 4 , which set the RF budget deficit in the first quarter of 1992 at Rbs. 67,500 million . |
| 5 | The budget deficit in the first half of 1992 had reached 7.5 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) , rising sharply in July and August ; " substantial tightening of the budget policy " was to be expected . |
| 6 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 7 | The German submarine offensive in the first 18 months of the war was largely contained . |
| 8 | It is possible to go on with the same therapist to deal with the problems which caused you to need the regression experience in the first place . |
| 9 | Marcel , the first person narrator of the novel , meets the writer Bergotte for the first time . |
| 10 | I think I think it is a good idea though to erm oh right er to y'know kind of break it up a bit er particularly if at an early stage you 're intending to y'know kind of go through erm and get people to go through quite a lot of questions erm as a by way of er y'know kind of the first stages in in er developing this thing . |
| 11 | The writer 's own experience was seeing the Progress car in the first post-war Illuminations of 1949 : sheer magic as it swept by , playing music while its myriad bulbs radiated heat and light . |
| 12 | To examine the relation between birth weight and β cell function in the first degree relatives of non-insulin dependent diabetic subjects . |
| 13 | More recently , Twin Peaks ( 1990- ) may be less surprising in its unsettling mix of crime , pastiche and parody when it is recognized that its coauthor , Mark Frost , was also a script writer of the first Hill Street Blues series . |
| 14 | A further question may have arisen ; why is the fertile soil or the susceptibility present in the first place ? |
| 15 | Mr Thompson , 42 , of Chelmsford , Essex , was murdered in October in a hotel car park on the first day of his holiday . |
| 16 | Patients who start out using high levels of gum — about one piece every waking hour for the first six weeks of quitting — do better than half-hearted chewers . |
| 17 | All this supposes that the persons mentioned want to go on the search trek in the first place . |
| 18 | Flamewave Supreme Inset Living Flame Effect Unlike the first two types , these can be fully installed within a fireplace opening , and project only minimally into a room . |
| 19 | Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt 's excellent book , The Bomber Command War Diaries tell us that on the night of 23/24 September Bomber Command for the first time concentrated its main bomber strength on one city — Berlin . |
| 20 | Pham told delegates that there had been a rapid increase in export turnover during the first half of 1990 , but that the production of export goods was threatened by the major socio-economic changes in Eastern Europe , which had forced some countries to cancel contracts , and that " the dilatory payment and overdue debts to the export goods manufacturers fail to encourage the production of export goods " . |
| 21 | ‘ From a planning point of view it would not have been a major worry , although only the force staging the original tie could police the second replay because all the liaison work for the first match would have been done . |
| 22 | The actual decision was given on the basis that applying s5 of the Partnership Act in the first case and the general law of agency in the second , the firms were liable on the undertakings because they were given by their partner/employee acting within the usual course of his business as a qualified solicitor . |
| 23 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 24 | turns , there , gets the header , Notts go in front , it was brilliantly made by and had the easiest of jobs and what a comeback it is , because Notts trailed by two in twenty minutes and now they lead three two against the side second in the first division table , who 've been run ragged in the second half , by a storming Notts comeback , brilliant , header . |
| 25 | It would not be statute law in the first instance , since it takes so long to get proposed statutes passed into law . |
| 26 | In this version of 1-2-3 you have to substitute the cell reference of the first cell in the corresponding field when you do this . |
| 27 | The element of time-saving is seen as significant by many employers , and one respondent identified it as the main motive for taking a recruiting problem to a search consultant in the first place . |
| 28 | ( viii ) The prisoner may make representations to the local review committee before the first review . |
| 29 | ( vii ) In every case it is made clear to the prisoner from the information supplied to him that he may not be recommended for release at the end of his tariff period at the first or any subsequent review . |
| 30 | They lead Bushbury , who have led for most of the season , 5–1 in their eight-game match after the first session of play . |