Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |
| 2 | Preparations for the first tour ever conducted of works from the Barnes Foundation are advancing . |
| 3 | Our chief source of information on Roman architecture for the first century B.C. is Marcus Vitruvius Pollio who wrote his famous work De Architectura , which he dedicated to Augustus , in 25 B.C. Vitruvius , as we call him , sets out his plans for an ideal Roman city in the first volume of his work . |
| 4 | ‘ I remembered the Factor 15 , better for the first day anyway . ’ |
| 5 | For the first year only . |
| 6 | But Greenford was in Middlesex and many was the night I spent in the pissing rain having walked to Acton Town station to wait for the first train home in the morning . |
| 7 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 8 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
| 9 | ( iv ) If a discretionary life sentence is passed , the minister of state sets the date for the first review strictly in accordance with the views of the judiciary , thus following the decision in Ex parte Handscomb , 86 Cr.App.R. 59 , and Mr. Hurd 's 1987 statement . |
| 10 | The evidence shows that in many cases the minister of state has set a date for the first review later than would have been the case if he had adopted the views expressed by the judiciary . |
| 11 | Ernst Richter was the latest recruit from the academy , having arrived the previous day , and he had been assigned to work with Mauer for the first month so that his temperament and personality could be assessed to ensure that later on he would be paired with the right partner . |
| 12 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 13 | For the first time both sets of fines were imposed for infringements of EC competition rules as laid down in Arts 85 and 86 of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 14 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 15 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 16 | This poor soul , pallid and puffy on his bed after desperate vomiting , sick and quiet and unregarded ever since , spent and ulcered mind and spirit by what he had so mistakenly undertaken , Jerome was for the first time wholly pitiful . |
| 17 | We can not win the Ryder Cup , the Curtis Cup , the Walker Cup in the United States for the first time again . |
| 18 | We can not have a Briton winning the US Masters for the first time again , nor a Briton putting the green jacket on yet another Briton for the first time again . |
| 19 | We can not have a Briton winning the US Masters for the first time again , nor a Briton putting the green jacket on yet another Briton for the first time again . |
| 20 | Ripley 's failure was part of a team malfunction that left Blackburn beaten for the first time away from home in the League . |
| 21 | Ridge rovers arriving in South Wales for the first time probably have firm plans to tackle the splendid routes in the Black Mountains and , of course , the classic escarpment topped by Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons . |
| 22 | Equally uncertain is the length of his stay in Egypt : Ibn Hajar , followed by Taskopruzade , says only that " he returned to Rum and was appointed kadi of Bursa " , which post , as will be shown below , he held for the first time probably from about 795/1392–3 to about 805/1402–3 . |
| 23 | Here is the music for the first time today . |
| 24 | Through this lucrative arrangement the club will receive £500 over the next ten years and the donation of a new team strip , on show for the first time today . |
| 25 | A new name soon to be engraved in the swindon town hall of fame is centre-half Adrian Whitbread … a five hundred thousand pound signing from Orient Adrian was on the County Ground pitch for the first time today to line-up with his new team mates for the annual pre season picture … and as you 'd expect it was all smiles |
| 26 | In the city the FT one hundred shares index broke through the three thousand barrier for the first time today after hopes of an early cut in interest rates . |
| 27 | Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today . |
| 28 | Also representing Scotland for the first time today will be the Ferguslie all-rounder , Stuart Kennedy , who follows in the footsteps of brother , Iain , who was capped six times . |
| 29 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 30 | Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in . |