Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 2.1 gives additional information about these two broad industrial areas , showing that it is in the retail trade and the hotels and catering industry in the first of these , and public administration , education , medical services , " other services to the public " , recreational and cultural services and personal services in the second , where the proportion of temporary workers is greatest and/or where an important share of the temporary workforce is to be found . |
| 2 | The project aims not only to resettle youngsters who struggle to lay down roots in the capital , but to stop them heading South in the first place . |
| 3 | Buying interest in the first quarter was focused on Germany , helped by the sale of the former East Germany 's assets . |
| 4 | Ludwigshafen-based BASF AG says its magnetic recording media business was still losing money in the first quarter because pressure on selling prices remained strong ; the chemicals giant , which owns Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH , said that it intends to fight the pressure on its selling prices by continuing to cut its costs and by concentrating on its more profitable sectors . |
| 5 | Disabled people from twenty one countries are taking part in the first wheelchair games of its kind . |
| 6 | £20 million will be invested in reading recovery in the first year . |
| 7 | But the report missed the fact that the republicans , through the Wolfe Tone Societies , had been largely responsible for creating NICRA in the first place and some commentators have accused Cameron of naïveté about republican influence . |
| 8 | Before we provoke any lawsuits , let's go back to what turned Rich on to playing guitar in the first place . |
| 9 | Only by centralizing power in the first place , on this argument , can the all-pervasive powers of bureaucracy be challenged . |