Example sentences of "use in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new campaign team headed by John Wakeham , the Secretary of State for Energy and a close political associate , was appointed to replace what had generally been regarded as the ineffective one used in the first ballot . |
| 2 | It may be argued that this is essentially the approach that I used in the first chapter . |
| 3 | The agency will ensure that resources made available by reductions in defence spending — reductions already planned by the Conservative government — are used in the first instance for rebuilding and investing in our manufacturing base . |
| 4 | One way around this particular problem would be to adapt the approach recommended by the Canadian Sentencing Commission ( 1997 ) , in which guide-lines are used in the first instance simply to indicate offences for which the presumptive sentence would ( or would normally ) involve a community sanction , and those which would ( or would normally ) involve a custodial penalty . |
| 5 | Roman bronze coins of the early second century BC were still being used in the first century AD , and very little bronze coinage was made between about 150 and 20BC . |
| 6 | It is clear that there was a steady expansion of the words used for trusts , from the basic four expressions used in the first century to the ten or so in use by the end of the third century . |
| 7 | The second prevalence survey employed eight indicator agencies : six of the ten agencies used in the first survey ( Home Office , police , probation service , Detoxification Unit , Drugs Council , and Education Department ) and two additional agencies , the Wirral Committee on Solvent Abuse , and the Society for Biophysical Medicine . |
| 8 | Effect is wrongly used in the first sentence of the passage . |
| 9 | The total number of pieces of gum used in the first day should be gradually reduced over a subsequent period of ten days . |
| 10 | The key question is not whether their use may be discontinued , once started ; rather , it is whether they should be used in the first place . |
| 11 | This would be used in the first place to pay that week 's invoice and the balance , if any , would reduce the outstanding invoice of £24,196 . |
| 12 | Resources — the reason why discretion is used in the first place may be because of limited resources . |
| 13 | The village hall , known as the Victory Hall , was an old army hut used in the First World War . |
| 14 | Among some of the exotic craft on display are bi-planes used in the First World War . |
| 15 | The 601 , to sample later this year is destined to be used in the first Power PC Macs and other low cost desktops . |