Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only point I felt w you know we mentioned the other day that if , if there 's a rise say on the first of April then you wan na get in a couple of months before then . |
| 2 | Masur does incidentally , even in this live performance , observe the exposition repeat in the first movement . |
| 3 | When the delegates from Western literature meet on the first day to pray for their existence , there is an attempted disruption of the ceremony by Muslim fundamentalists who claim to object to the Christian format of the proceedings , but , as we later discover , their real target is the elusive Gibreel Farishta whom they are trying to punish for his heretical views . |
| 4 | Cypriot Lesbian & Gay group meet on the first Sunday of every month at London Friend , 86 Caledonian Road , London N ! . |
| 5 | Gedge 's parents say the band live for the first time at Manchester 's salubrious Ritz Club . |
| 6 | Torrance , who has played in the last six Ryder Cup matches and badly wants to figure in the next at the Belfry in September , shot his 69 despite having a nose bleed for the first time in his life early in the morning , then again on the course . |
| 7 | In a government document on maternity care , the Maternity Services Advisory Committee rounded up advice on good practice in postnatal care : ‘ The care a mother and baby receive in the first weeks after the birth is as important as the care given antenatally and during childbirth , ’ it says . |
| 8 | The origins of this popular movement lie in the first wave of pressure for disarmament , which began with the emergence of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) in 1958 and ended in 1964 , with its decline in the face of the new Labour Government 's failure to rid itself of nuclear weapons . |
| 9 | We will make houses which meet high standards of energy efficiency exempt from the first £1000 of stamp duty when they are sold . |
| 10 | Our inability to standardise the timing of the initial packed cell volume is unfortunate as large changes in plasma volume occur in the first few hours of life . |
| 11 | As a significant number of people with a normal resting ejection fraction die within the first year following infarction , it has been suggested that a fall in ejection fraction on exercise may identify this group . |
| 12 | Half the irritability and lack of moral control which spoil adult life originate in the first year of existence . |
| 13 | Why did the Third World borrow in the first place ? |
| 14 | The overall median hospital stay from the first stage of percutaneous cholecystolithotomy was three days ( range one to 33 ) . |
| 15 | The median hospital stay from the first stage in patients with acute complications was 12 days ( range three to 33 ) . |
| 16 | The other one was that they would be th the direct debit re-present on the first of April would be running one day late erm which , as a consequence , means that the recall re-presents would come back one day late . |
| 17 | The child prices shown alongside the adult prices in the price panel apply to the first child sharing a room or an apartment with 2 full fare paying passengers . |
| 18 | The medieval fabliaux in English belong in the first instance to the context of medieval England , and are not to be seen as foreign intruders disguised in the clothing of the Middle English language . |
| 19 | The operation of this 3% in three year rule is likely to be unduly restrictive when it first applies because of the expected need to grant substantial new options to sharesave scheme participants and at the same time allow for the first allocations under the proposed executive share option scheme . |
| 20 | ‘ When I come out of a house having heard a victim laugh for the first time since it all happened — I know that 's why I do it , ’ she says . |