Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysis of questionnaire and sickness absence data collected from the first phase of the Whitehall II study . |
| 2 | The whole procedure is initiated by a demand for data arising at the first site . |
| 3 | The newly created earl volunteered for service in the royal fleet , and was killed by a cannon shot in the first battle , off Lowestoft on 3 June . |
| 4 | Radius Inc warns that it expects to report a second quarter operating loss larger than its first quarter operating loss , and that second quarter revenues to March 31 will be below the $36.9m reported for the first quarter , when it lost $0.05 per share or $713,000 ; it has seen slowing demand for its Macintosh enhancement products in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US . |
| 5 | Because you can see if the client 's up to the age of forty , he gets a higher erm , a reduced allocation , but if he 's seventy , he gets actually forty percent allocated in the first year , and he gets er , a full allocation from then on . |
| 6 | Ticket sales for this year 's Ryedale Festival have got off to a record start with more than £16,000 netted in the first three weeks and some events are already sold out , says director Geoffrey Emmerson . |
| 7 | In King 's Lynn , Norfolk , 12 orthopaedic beds plus a small ward have closed and operating sessions are being reduced after a £238,000 overspend in the first five months of the financial year . |
| 8 | The man who inspired many of the staff to come in the first place was Seymour Papert . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Over 16,000 people applied in the first two months alone . |
| 11 | Perhaps the most dramatic example of this is when people meet for the first time . |
| 12 | Jack shook off his dream about Death Row and remembered that all over Dublin today there would be people waking to the first day of term . |
| 13 | It is a fact that most people bitten for the first time by their own dog are bitten in the bedroom . |
| 14 | Oh rather yes , out-work , people used during the First World War there were no end of people were sort of er especially if they 'd had a bit of experience in the leather industry like harness and saddlery and that sort of thing , especially the harness and er other work attached to leather cavalry and er revolver holsters and that sort of thing , they 'd do them at home you know oh yes there was er now Walsall 's divided is n't it ? |
| 15 | Since the bombing raids began over Iraq , Britons have flocked to join the army ( inquiries in London have quintupled ) ; to give blood ( in Plymouth alone , more than 1,600 people volunteered in the first few days , and 110,000 followed suit across the country ) ; and to say their prayers ( Winchester Cathedral reported that the congregation for Matins last Sunday was up by a half on the usual number ) . |
| 16 | Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things . |
| 17 | Following violence between ANC and Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) militants in the township of Bekkersdal , west of Johannesburg , where at least 11 people died in the first week of February , there was a joint peace appeal by the four main black political organisations . |
| 18 | About half of these had been won from the moderate middle-class parties and were augmented by the vote of about 6 million new voters , half of whom were young people voting for the first time , and the other half of whom were people who up to now had been too weary , cynical or lacking in hope to vote at all . |
| 19 | Most cour I mean you nor you can get up to about ten percent on most cou on a lot of courses , where people leave after the first term . |
| 20 | Other historians have seen the Restoration as a counter-revolution ; a palace coup d'éat in which power passed from one part of the élite to another ; and a transfer of power which was an integral part of the growth of national , and nationalist , awareness among a people faced for the first time in centuries by real threats from the outside world . |
| 21 | It 's not how many people come to the first night of your tour in Windsor , it 's what they do when they get there . |
| 22 | Most of the works produced in the first half of the century portray a period of social and religious cataclysm , which is arguably compatible with the archaeology of the north-eastern provinces , where evidence for decline in the cities , towns and villas , and dramatic changes in burial practices , gives a picture of disruption . |
| 23 | The cross town route one of seven schemes in the county under threat was expected to attract £2m from the EC towards the £8m needed for the first stage of the road , between McMullen Road and Darlington 's southern bypass . |
| 24 | At present these are alkali works or works mentioned in the first schedule of the 1906 Act , as amended by the Health and Safety ( Emissions into the Atmosphere ) Regulations 1983 ( S.1 . |
| 25 | They completed the works required by the first notice on 7 September 1983 . |
| 26 | When Roe won for the first time at the Catalan Open in 1989 , it was predicted that he would become a regular winner on Tour . |
| 27 | Figure 5 shows their distribution with time ; 49% occurred in the first four seconds after the onset of the common cavity episode and 34% were scattered over the 5th to the 27th second after the onset of the common cavity . |
| 28 | WEST INDIAN umpire Steve Bucknor stepped in to prevent crowd trouble getting out of hand as India ground their way to a 23-run first innings lead in the first Test against South Africa here yesterday . |
| 29 | The weakening of the yen intensified in the first quarter of 1990 , and over the year ending March 1990 , had depreciated by 20 per cent in real terms . |
| 30 | N. lapillus grows for the first three years of its life ( but see p. 307 ) , and then usually marks the onset of sexual maturity by thickening the shell lip and laying down a row of white dentiform tubercles-usually known as " teeth " " -along the inside edge ( Fig. 17 ) . |