Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the first [num] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December . |
| 2 | Between April 1988 and March 1989 average rents in housing association properties rose by 24 per cent with most of the increases occurring in the first four months of 1989 . |
| 3 | In our study , all strictures appearing in the first decade and 82% of those appearing in the first two decades of disease were benign , while most ( 61% ) arising after 20 years or more were malignant . |
| 4 | And the overall toll , which includes sectarian murders , shows a similar trend with 46 people dying in the first five months of last year compared to 29 this year . |
| 5 | Debt-laden disco operator European Leisure is suspending dividend payments as it struggles to service bank loans in the face of heavy debts and the recession.The group is still in the black but trading in the first two months of the year has been ‘ difficult and stable ’ . |
| 6 | The normal subjects displayed a biphasic response with coordinate increases in both serum and urine APGPR immunoeactivity both occurring within the first two hours after the meal . |
| 7 | The aim of our study is to identify among subjects treated using the same endoscopic protocol — that is , urgent sclerotherapy , those dying within the first six weeks of their first variceal haemorrhage . |
| 8 | Company liquidation figures have been more than double the level of a year before , with about half the companies dying within the first five years . |
| 9 | This , according to a Gascon petition of 1279 , was traditionally composed of the prelates , barons , knights and other nobles of the land and was to adjudge all cases concerning inheritance and other matters relating to the first two estates ( clergy and nobility ) of the duchy . |
| 10 | On Nov. 13 Clinton unveiled a new ethics code for those in his transition team which prohibited members from lobbying for the first six months of the new administration . |
| 11 | After a false start by world champion Tatyana Ledovskaya , Gunnell was into her Rolls-Royce stride instantly , coasting through the first 200 metres with principal rival Sandra Farmer-Patrick firmly in her sights in the next lane . |
| 12 | After a false start by world champion Tatyana Ledovskaya , Gunnell was into her Rolls-Royce stride instantly , coasting through the first 200 metres with principal rival Sandra Farmer-Patrick firmly in her sights in the next lane . |
| 13 | This becomes clearer by looking at the first two stanzas . |
| 14 | Let's see if we can refine those like us looking at the first two lines of the play . |
| 15 | Earlier in the day Joey finished second to brother Robert in the Shell 125cc race after leading for the first three laps . |
| 16 | Soon after your arrival you 're interviewed and put on what 's called ‘ house assessment ’ — house cleaning for the first five weeks — whilst the screws work out what would be the best work for you . |
| 17 | Sunday best pale and awkward teenagers , unsure and toughly giggly , sit around the central dance floor waiting for the first two or three to start dancing so that the rush can begin . |
| 18 | I suggest the patient takes it on waking for the first two or three days and then experiments either with increasing the amount or by introducing an extra dose in the afternoon or evening . |
| 19 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 20 | Keep the same colour sequence throughout , marking in the first two rows any stitches knitted with col. 1 , in the second pair of rows those stitches knitted with col. 2 and in the third pair of rows the stitches knitted with col. 3 . |
| 21 | If Childebert and Chlothar were indeed adding to the first sixty-five , or even the first seventy-eight , clauses of Lex Salica , then the first Merovingian code can be dated before 511 . |
| 22 | THE TREATMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE , LEARNING AND TEACHING DURING THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF A NEW BACHELOR OF EDUCATION DEGREE . |
| 23 | In general , language teaching during the first two years is in small groups with grammar classes , oral classes ( with a native speaker ) and classes devoted to the written language . |
| 24 | Alright he was carrying an injury but surely the onus of the team should not rest on a single player — and besides what was he doing for the first 80 minutes on Saturday . |
| 25 | Miss Cross began the match well , reeling off the first four games for the loss of only four points . |
| 26 | He had no idea the club would prove so popular — with 750 members joining in the first 5 months . |
| 27 | The report starts by reviewing the pattern of spending in the first two years of the fund . |
| 28 | The importance of this should not be missed : one aspect of growing local government spending in the first thirty years after 1945 was that the balance between sources of funding shifted dramatically . |
| 29 | Yet , the unambitious satiric intentions are fulfilled , the most successful sequences coming in the first fifteen minutes . |
| 30 | THE Weightman Rutherfords Liverpool Competition has got off to a tremendous start with 54 wins coming from the first 72 fixtures . |