Example sentences of "in [noun sg] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is normal to select one preferred bidder and to attempt to keep a second or third bidder on hold in case the first bidder should withdraw . |
| 2 | Because , for reasons mentioned earlier , the itching may persist for some time , an just in case the first application was not exhaustive , it is quite common to advise a second treatment one week after the first . |
| 3 | The final area in my list of mathematics education IT uses is control , in essence the first step to robotics . |
| 4 | In amphibia the first sign of neurulation is the flattening of the upper surface of the embryo into a broad plate bounded by two ridges or folds . |
| 5 | ( b ) The battle in practice The first contact between contracting parties will normally be the sending out of a price list or catalogue , or perhaps a potential buyer 's request for an estimate or tender . |
| 6 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 7 | In theory the first step in the procedure is a formal application for payment of arrears by either the landlord or someone acting as an agent . |
| 8 | ‘ It is in fact the first flowering of fiscal revolt against the high taxes of the 1990s . |
| 9 | Others can make a judgement that you should be spending less than that , and in fact the first budget we presented yesterday was at the level of three hundred and eleven point five million , which is further below the capped level . |
| 10 | In fact the first person to say it was anthropologist Thomas Hornsby Ferril , who wrote an article in the Rocky Mountain Herald in December 1955 that put forward the idea that American football is actually a : |
| 11 | In fact the first evidence for such oracles comes from the Peripatetic philosopher and historian Antisthenes of Rhodes , the contemporary of Polybius . |
| 12 | The shoddy tower-blocks and monotonous housing estates into which the ex-peasants were already being herded twenty-five years ago were in fact the first stage of systematically transforming life in the country . |
| 13 | It was titled ‘ Umbrella ’ and the song ‘ And Hiding Away ’ , to which Allan referred in his letter , is in fact the first track on the album . |
| 14 | In fact the first thing I did was ring my 35-year-old daughter who has been a ‘ fitness freak ’ ever since Jane Fonda took to jumping about our TV screens and warned her not to overdo it if she intended to buy the tape — which I am certain she does . |
| 15 | It was in fact the first time in his life that he had looked at any woman . |
| 16 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 17 | When the Data Protection Committee was set up in 1976 , to redeem a pledge made by the Home Secretary when Younger reported , It had no such limitation put upon it — it was in fact the first body empowered to investigate information systems in the public sector , and the Committee came to see this as a major aspect of its work . |