Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] a first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a very useful way of gaining a first impression of a program and other teachers or school librarians may be present who have used the software in class and have evaluated its use . |
| 2 | Organising your essay in advance changes the process of writing a first paragraph . |
| 3 | Hardy had to pay £75 towards the cost of printing a first edition of 500 copies . |
| 4 | The success of Peter Medd. an Old Boy and son of one of the Visitors , in gaining a First Class Honours degree at Oxford so pleased the Goldsmiths that he was given a prize of £20 and the School an extra week 's holiday that summer . |
| 5 | The certification to BS 5750 for Design and Construction which followed the successful assessment by BSI last autumn , was fitting reward for the hard work and efforts of all WEC staff in establishing a first class Quality Management System . |
| 6 | JOHN SMITH , lecturer in the Law Department , warned Marian Jackson at the beginning of her second year that too much time spent with Dram Soc would prevent her from getting a first class degree . |
| 7 | There is little point in having a first aid kit on the ground floor if you cut your foot badly upstairs . |
| 8 | The plate is now ready for taking a first print , that is , for proofing . |
| 9 | After two years on the Worcestershire staff without playing a first team game , Briers , 24 , took the gamble of moving North last season in search of his first-class ticket . |
| 10 | As a result , I am assured Mr Lee can look forward to receiving a first payment by the beginning of next week . |
| 11 | They made allowance for a stale price effect in the index ( by including a first order moving average process ) , and used a GARCH ( 1,1 ) model to control for autocorrelation in the variance of the disturbances . |
| 12 | Critics of the programme , who were numerous in the USA as well as in the Soviet Union , maintained that it would violate the ABM treaty and therefore undermine the whole concept of deterrence by allowing a first strike to be delivered from behind a space ‘ shield ’ which would prevent or at least reduce the risk of retaliation . |