Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Senate commission on violence and pacification , Sendero Luminoso was responsible for killing 147 members of civil defence groups in the first 10 months of 1991 . |
| 2 | The energies released enable the young teacher to ‘ try again' on some of the preferred but unsuccessful teaching strategies of the first year . |
| 3 | To give all subjects roughly the same earnings opportunities over the two repetitions of the experiment , we changed the parameter pairs from the first to the second repetition of follows : Each group consisted of eight subjects : so there were eight who had parameter pair A on their first repetition and parameter pair H on their second ; eight who had parameter pair B on their first repetition and parameter pair G on their second ; and so on . |
| 4 | The X Business Group rates DEC third in X-terminal shipments for the first quarter of 1992 , after Network Computing Devices Inc and HP . |
| 5 | One of the five woodcut maps from the first edition of the Geneva Bible in English , printed at Geneva by Rouland Hall in 1560 . |
| 6 | ‘ Heavens no , ’ agreed Julia , thinking about the Easter plans for the first time that evening . |
| 7 | Among the rugs is one of only four known Esari prayer rugs from the first half of the nineteenth century , which is expected to bring £6–8,000 ( $10–14,000 ) . |
| 8 | Many course combinations in the first two years provide a background for Medical Microbiology in third and fourth years . |
| 9 | Boots The chemist are to open pharmacy concessions for the first time in seven JS branches in late July . |
| 10 | The programmes of study will apply from five years of age , likewise the attainment targets , although not in operation formally until the age of seven years , will of course be drawn from the study programmes in the first two years of statutory schooling . |
| 11 | Hewitt expects to raise between 500,000 and 600,000 balls for the ITF 's overseas aid programmes in the first year . |
| 12 | Now they could see that Jimmy was tugging a large metal filing cabinet with him , dragged from one of the side offices on the first floor . |
| 13 | The interval must be long enough to avoid any carry-over practice effects between the first administration and the second , but sufficiently short so that it can be assumed that there will have been no change in the real underlying abilities of the children concerned . |
| 14 | The announcement came after weak commodity prices for almost all raw material exports had cost the country an estimated US$450 million in lost export revenues in the first quarter . |
| 15 | A series of many similar observations can be made for a number of different tribes and issues , and cumulatively these give us a very clear picture of the extensive series of Celtic silver coinages of the first century BC . |
| 16 | Sir : Eurotunnel 's latest revenue forecasts for the first year of the tunnel 's operation are virtually unchanged from the forecasts made a year ago , and the long-term forecasts are up . |
| 17 | The King meets with opposition leaders for the first time . |
| 18 | He also allowed his mount to drift out by six horse widths during the first 200 metres , which is forbidden on the straight Vaal course . |
| 19 | Foreign investors were allowed direct access into domestic stock markets for the first time from June 5 . |
| 20 | The outcome of State Department deliberations in the first four months of 1949 was that the character of the occupation must be changed so as to afford the Japanese more legitimate freedom of action . |
| 21 | ‘ Live ’ delivered a hit single in ‘ No Woman No Cry ’ and put Marley into the album charts for the first time . |
| 22 | The Faculty Office or the Schools Liaison Office will be pleased to advise on this and also upon an appropriate choice of sixth year subjects , particularly where students have marginally failed to meet the entry requirements at the first sitting of Highers . |
| 23 | Previous architects had used stone as a building material for certain features in the mud-brick royal mastaba tombs of the First and Second Dynasties . |
| 24 | The police are joining forces with colleagues from the fire and ambulance services in the first ‘ Safer Seniors ’ campaign . |
| 25 | Research students register as Probationer Research Students in the first instance , and , subject to a formal review of progress at the end of the first year , they may have their registration upgraded to that of D.Phil . |
| 26 | So far , the courts have approached rent review clauses from the first perspective only . |
| 27 | In a major government reorganization in Croatia on Aug. 1 Tudjman included opposition politicians for the first time in a new " government of democratic unity " which continued to be dominated by the Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) with 11 out of 27 posts . |
| 28 | A PUBLIC inquiry today could make legal history as the Nature Conservancy Council attempts for the first time to purchase compulsorily a farmer 's land to protect a rich wildlife habitat . |
| 29 | Spring passage commonly extends from early March to late May , but sea-watching results from Selsey Bill since 1960 consistently show that the passage peaks in the first three weeks of April , and off Beachy Head Cooper ( 1975 ) found a marked peak between 11 and 20 April . |
| 30 | Where the gallery projects from the first floor of the house , the wool room was in the house on the first floor . |