Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford 's two-one win at home to Peterborough lifted them into sixteenth place in the First Division . |
| 2 | The observance began on the fourteenth day of the first month and lasted for a week . |
| 3 | Tonights performance is part of a nationwide series of concerts to celebrate the 250th anninversary of the first British performance . |
| 4 | That principle must also be applied here , since to require a company incorporated under the law of one member state , which has its registered office , central administration or principal place of business in that member state ( within the meaning of article 58 ) , or even in another member state , to transfer its principal place of business to the member state where a certain activity , such as fishing , is to be carried on , deprives that company of the possibility of exercising its right of establishment through the setting up of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , as is expressly provided for in the second sentence of the first paragraph of article 52 . |
| 5 | John Sewell has a unique claim to a place in any gallery of Palace heroes , because he was the popular and talented skipper of the team which took our club into the 1st Division for the first time in its history , back in 1969 . |
| 6 | Judicial decisions gradually shifted vicarages from the second category to the first ; before the end of Edward 's reign , royal judges had deemed more than a score of advowsons of perpetual vicarages to be lay fee . |
| 7 | Push tool down into the second stitch — the first stitch will slip behind the latch and you can ‘ crochet ’ the second stitch through the first . |
| 8 | Then I saw a second light beside the first . |
| 9 | In that case make a second search before the first has expired . |
| 10 | Newman , a decision in which the misappropriation theory was adopted by the Second Circuit for the first time , the court held that Newman had stolen information from his employer and had thereby breached his fiduciary duties to his employer and his employer 's clients . |
| 11 | The perspicacious reader will by now have decided that , if we accept the 1865 suppressed edition as the first , this American printing was the second issue of the first edition , since it was printed from the original setting of type . |
| 12 | If a design problem is the cause of the airlock , this procedure will have to be repeated every time , so it will be better to find the cause and remedy it by fitting bigger pipes or a bigger cistern ( or a second cistern alongside the first — see Chapter 3 ) , or by repositioning the pipes so that they have the correct fall . |
| 13 | In the second half of the first millennium , a canoe set out from an island in the Tahitian chain and steered due north for two and a half thousand miles by the light of the stars and the ocean currents till it reached Hawaii . |
| 14 | Of the rest Matthew Cooper played as a fledgling in the All Blacks ' scamper through Japan in 1987 ; Jon Preston had one game in the World Cup last year ; Kevin Schuler appeared briefly as a replacement in France in 1990 ; and Graham Dowd had been the reserve hooker for the World Cup and the home series against the World XV and managed a short time on the field when Richard Loe was injured in the second half of the First Test against Ireland . |
| 15 | 1980 ) and onset is during the second half of the first year of life . |
| 16 | A variety of finger food can be introduced for them to suck and usually they start to chew on ones that they prefer during the second half of the first year . |
| 17 | These processes participate in the building up of the ego and super-ego and prepare the ground for the onset of the Oedipus complex in the second half of the first year ( 1975 : 2 ) . |
| 18 | The second half of the first term emphasises workshop approaches , where the nature of both ‘ poetry ’ , and of ‘ narrative storying ’ , as products of one of the functions of language , are explored . |
| 19 | SWINDON squandered the chance to regain second place in the First Division yesterday . |
| 20 | Peterboro 3 , Swindon 3 SWINDON squandered the chance to regain second place in the First Division yesterday . |
| 21 | GUY Whittingham scored his 40th goal of the season to push Portsmouth into second place in the First Division . |
| 22 | Meanwhile InterSpray struggled in the second leg , Rio to Hobart , to maintain the form that earned her second place in the first stage . |
| 23 | Despite qualifying sixth , the Reynard driver made a superb start and was in second place by the first corner , taking the lead from Gianni Morbidelli 's Lola by the end of the lap . |
| 24 | If any charge is given in favour of the husband and is subsequent to a first mortgage , then the husband should register a Class C(i) Land Charge ( puisne mortgage ) against the former wife and serve notice of the second charge on the first mortgagee ( see Precedent 64 ) . |
| 25 | A second charge certificate will be issued to the husband , and the Land Registry will serve notice of the second charge on the first mortgagee ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s30 as amended by Law of Property ( Amendment ) Act 1926 , s5 ) where the first charge was made for securing further advances ( in addition to the original advance ) . |
| 26 | The cautious practitioner might in any event serve notice of the second charge on the first mortgagee ( see Precedent 64 ) . |
| 27 | Yesterday a Birmingham small claims court ordered Warwickshire , the ground authority , to repay the full admission price to five England supporters who felt cheated after only two balls were bowled on the second day of the first Test . |
| 28 | Designed and built by the astronomer Andronicus Kyrrhestes of Macedonia in the second quarter of the first century BC , with a wind vane and complicated sundials on each of its eight walls , its most interesting feature is a reservoir in a smaller building that stood next to its south side . |
| 29 | We 'll also be keeping you in touch with the second replay of the first qualifying round of the F A Cup which is taking place at Fort Meadow between Buckingham Town and Brackley Town ; it 's becoming a bit of a saga , the previous two matches ended one all draws . |
| 30 | MILLWALL Football Club , which is playing only its second season in the First Division in its 104-year history , is to obtain a Stock Exchange listing . |