Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ranald , do you find a rock the size of these two , and we 'll use them as a base for the first skep . |
| 2 | The last difference is really a function of the first two — credit marketing services in the US is a mature and substantial market . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's getting on a bit for a first baby , is n't she ? ’ she demanded . |
| 4 | ‘ We both felt quite nervous — it was a bit like a first date . |
| 5 | And , as subscribers with decades ' worth of Punch purchasing behind them testify on pages 56–59 , the effect was a bit like the first plunge into an icy pool : shocking at first , but pleasantly bracing once you got used to it . |
| 6 | Go down go down a level for the first |
| 7 | Meanwhile , in 1918 , following the retirement of the Rev W B Sleight as President , the Rev F W Gilby M.A. agreed to occupy this position as a stop-gap until the election of a successor at the first Congress after the end of the First World War . |
| 8 | Renault showed they had a winner for the first time at the 1979 French Grand Prix when Jean-Pierre Jabouille ( Fra ) was first , with team-mate Rene Arnoux third . |
| 9 | In making a decision on the first of the three cases cited , the Commissioner communicated with the Chief Executive of the National Health Service Management Executive , asking him about a health authority 's duty to provide continuing nursing care which is assessed as being needed , and which is not otherwise available . |
| 10 | He must submit a budget during the first week in February , which should further clarify his revenue needs and sources . |
| 11 | But good budgeting means having a budget in the first place , having a surplus beyond merest subsistence with which to plan , bulk buy , meet the emergencies which crop up constantly . |
| 12 | But a reduction in the First World is also essential . |
| 13 | ‘ You are a part of the first forest . |
| 14 | the sound of whose surname and its positioning at the start of the final stanza aurally and visually rhymes with ‘ Declines ’ which similarly ends a sentence as the first word of stanza six . |
| 15 | The majority are fitted in quite neatly , but the addition of a sentence after the first quotation on page 34 makes the referent of " Another possibility " , which opens the next sentence , ambiguous . |
| 16 | Both rely on something lost being found , a sheep in the first parable and a silver coin in the second . |
| 17 | He demanded a refund from the first agents but they refused , arguing that because he had given them his credit card number he had entered into a contract . |
| 18 | McAdam left for Gibraltar in a Sunderland on the first leg of the long journey home . |
| 19 | When removing a drain for the first time , the suture must be removed , and the safety pin replaced about 1″ down the tube if it is to be shortened . |
| 20 | This question produces as varied a response as the first . |
| 21 | Nine cases achieved a response within the first week ( five prednisone , four PEN ) , eight cases by the second week ( six prednisone , two PEN ) , five by the third week ( two prednisone , three PEN ) , and five by the fourth week ( two prednisone , three PEN ) . |
| 22 | There was a military precision about the grounds and gardens — this avenue , once lined with Dutch Elm lies to the north of the house … where a statue of the first duke overlooks his home — to the south , there was once what was called the military parterre garden — a formal gardens made up of box hedges and gravel walks — now long gone . |
| 23 | He was now a lieutenant in the First Foot Guards , but had been seconded to the Prince 's staff because his father was an old friend of the Baron Rebecque . |
| 24 | In accordance with a letter of intent signed on Feb. 28 , 1989 , the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on March 29 approved a purchase in the first credit tranche ( i.e. for immediate disbursement ) equivalent in total to 342,880,000 special drawing rights ( SDR1=$1.29496 as at March 28 , 1989 ) , or 25 per cent of Venezuela 's total Fund quota , in support of its economic reform programme [ see p. 36459 ] . |
| 25 | Firemen were called to an unoccupied house in Patterson Avenue , Middlesbrough , yesterday when a mattress on the first floor caught fire . |
| 26 | The following is a checklist of the first three considerations which should be taken into account before anything else : |
| 27 | United States trade figures for the second quarter of 1971 showed a deficit for the first time . |
| 28 | FR GROUP , the aviation and defence equipment group where Michael Cobham is the chairman , is lifting its payment to shareholders from 6.37p to 6.69p , with a 4.35p final on July 3 , after overcoming a dip in the first half to increase its profits from £21.3m to £21.4m pre-tax in 1991 . |
| 29 | Apparently Lothar received a majority on the first ballot , but not the two-thirds majority made necessary by the constitution " Licet de vitanda " of the Third Lateran Council of 1179 . |
| 30 | It was held by the Lord Ordinary ( Lord Wheatley ) and a majority of the First Division that the corporation was not liable to purchase tax on stationery manufactured by it and supplied to its public service departments but was liable to the tax on stationery supplied to its trading departments . |