Example sentences of "only [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all that , the way in which he was publicly rebuked by Peter May , the chairman of Selectors , after returning home , and appointed only for the first Test against India , annoyed many people by its insensitivity and seemed to be about as productive as the shooting of Admiral Byng on his quarterdeck . |
| 2 | But only for the first day or so ; after a week I ca n't wait to return to Koraloona . ’ |
| 3 | I enjoyed ‘ Futility ’ very much as it is poem with a message for all people and like most of Wilfred Owen 's poems it is timeless and has a meaning not only for the first World War but for wars to come . |
| 4 | Herbert ( 1978 ) suggests that conference interpreting began only during the First World War , while before that international conferences were held in French . |
| 5 | On the other side of the energy account book is the surface energy , 2 G.l , which is needed to form the new surfaces and clearly this increases only as the first power of the depth of the crack . |
| 6 | At first , the Assembly could not even decide upon its own agenda : it was only after the first session in 1949 that the Committee of Ministers agreed not to exercise its right to draw up the Assembly 's agenda . |
| 7 | Gael , who is not religious , holds only with the first half of the double limerick according to which existence depends on being the object of another 's perception . |
| 8 | Only with the first man had she got this wrong . |
| 9 | It deals only with the first stage . |
| 10 | The accounts which had been submitted to the plaintiffs had dealt not only with the first defendant 's costs , charges and expenses but also with the receivers ' receipts and payments . |
| 11 | But that 's only in the first year , in the second year erm the percentage will reduce quite rapidly and we 're only spending half the second and third years . |
| 12 | The level of British farming declined sharply and it was only in the first decade of the twentieth century that it began to get on its feet again by shifting its emphasis to specialities like beef-fattening and vegetable-growing . |
| 13 | The " good years " of textile out-workers , for example , began before the war but lasted only over the first half of it . |
| 14 | The findings were drawn from the study of both cohorts but relate only to the first year of the course . |
| 15 | Although the obligation to provide instruction about maintenance is to be limited only to the first occupier , it is likely that subsequent purchasers will require the information to be passed on every time the property is sold . |
| 16 | Only on the first day could an extra half-hour be utilised if a result was imminent . |
| 17 | The agreement was a verbal agreement only on the first day of the new year and the two of them agreed to share profits equally . |
| 18 | But you can see , you can see already that the production rate is no where near good enough to meet the programme and if it 's only on the first part of the seventh floor , bearing in mind we 've got to be working on three floors at the same time , we 're only on the first part of the seventh floor and already we 've got overlaps on day Granted , it 's a major problem . |
| 19 | But you can see , you can see already that the production rate is no where near good enough to meet the programme and if it 's only on the first part of the seventh floor , bearing in mind we 've got to be working on three floors at the same time , we 're only on the first part of the seventh floor and already we 've got overlaps on day Granted , it 's a major problem . |
| 20 | It 's now available for only seven shows out of twenty seven in the next programme and only on the first night of each show and only at a cost of two pounds and these are the audience of tomorrow as I wrote to you Mr you neglect these people at your peril why 've you changed the scheme ? |
| 21 | The associative theory , on the other hand , predicts an advantage only on the first task , the associations being of no help , or perhaps even hindering , when symbols having a common associate require different responses . |
| 22 | This scheme too is found in free-standing statues ( e.g. figs. 75 , 76 ) , but only among the first generation or two of classical sculptors . |
| 23 | Peter Dutton , Corporate Recruitment Manager at Procter & Gamble 's UK head office in Newcastle , wrote : ‘ We do not use Headhunters at all , because we have a policy of recruiting only at the first level of management ( usually graduates direct from university ) and filling all more senior management positions by promotion from within . ’ |
| 24 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 25 | The repeating shape of the accompaniment in quavers is designed to recur only at the first beat of the seventh bar . |
| 26 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 27 | It happened that , for whatever reason , the charge was signed only by the first appellant , whereas both of them were entitled to the freehold . |