Example sentences of "with [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 17 September Christie 's announced that it had cut its interim payment down to 0.5p compared with 2.3p in the first half of last year . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't agree with play-offs in the first place . |
| 3 | These were similar to those signed with Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland in June 1990 [ see p. 37535 ] , which were expected to result in the signature of free trade agreements with EFTA in the first half of 1992 . |
| 4 | It had been swamped with work in the first months after the allowance 's introduction . |
| 5 | Also in 1990 , 15pc of mothers gave up in the first week , and 38pc by the sixth , compared with 14pc in the first week and 39pc by week six in 1985 . |
| 6 | The C-terminal pentadecapeptide of human progastrin ie preprogastrin 87-101 was obtained from UCB Products ( YGWMDFGRRSAEDEN , in the single letter notation ) ; the C-terminal decapeptide of progastrin with Tyr in the first position — that is , ( Tyr ) preprogastrin 92–101 ( YGRRSAEDEN ) , was obtained from Multiple Peptide Systems ( San Diego , CA , USA ) ; Gly-extended C-terminal octapeptide fragment of G17 ie preprogastrin 86–93 ( AYGWMDFG ) , was a gift from Dr J Walsh . |
| 7 | He blamed the fall of the city on the impiety and general degeneracy of the people , who had been so foolish as to ally themselves with Christians in the first place . |
| 8 | Similarly , the Wallabies were unable to play with continuity in the first half of the Second Test at Ballymore because of a string of penalties but were finally able to chain together some magical passages of play . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps for the same reason I foolishly asked you to stay with Anna in the first place , ’ he snarled . |
| 10 | David Goldman , chairman , said the group 's United Kingdom software sales rose by 16 p.c. despite difficult market conditions and that Sage continues to trade ahead of internal targets , with profits in the first half 62 p.c. up on the corresponding period . |
| 11 | Before and since then I have admired Mains ' growing confidence as coach of a side which reached its peak with victory in the first division of the national championship last winter , and also his increasing comfort with the public relations impact of coaching a prominent side . |
| 12 | I would quibble with details in the first movement , but the savage second movement is unsurpassed in its combined ferocity and thrust , the third moves from creeping malevolence to a spinetingling summoning-up of ghosts , and the finale rushes lemming-like to its conclusion , making a nonsense of the average insert-note description . |
| 13 | Long-term profits of $14.6m compare with $15.5m in the first half of last year , but UK life operations make further strong progress |
| 14 | The news will involve no redundancies : Ms Rebuck effected a swingeing cost-cutting ( and job-cutting ) exercise at Random House last year , and the company is currently trading well , with sales in the first quarter of 1993 up by 15% on the same period in 1992 , despite ( or because of ) a reduction in new trade titles of 35% . |
| 15 | The national curriculum began to be taught in the autumn of 1989 , with pupils in the first year of Key Stage 1 introduced to the programmes of study and attainment targets of the three core subjects of mathematics , English and science . |
| 16 | He was indispensable to Reagan 's extraordinary success with Congress in the first year . ’ |
| 17 | Mrs. Fairfax had come along with Sandra in the first place . |
| 18 | Mexicans are the cheeriest : comparing optimists and pessimists , a net 76% of Mexican businessmen expect sales to rise in the second quarter of this year , compared with 69% in the first quarter . |
| 19 | All the interviewees were asked what moved them to experiment with heroin in the first instance The largest group ( 33 per cent ) first tried heroin out of curiosity which , in most of the cases , had been aroused by the previous use of other drugs . |
| 20 | Had it been essential to inject , many ‘ new ’ users stated that they would probably not have experimented with heroin in the first place . |
| 21 | This change in female initiation patterns is also reflected in the reasons they gave for experimentation with heroin in the first place . |