Example sentences of "only the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate ratio for admission was similar when only the first admission of each child was counted ( 27 vs 42 , rate ratio 0.65 [ 0.41–1.04 ] , p=0.09 ) . |
| 2 | Establishing the existence of a reason for dismissal falling within the legislation is only the first hurdle upon which the employer has the burden of proof . |
| 3 | Only the first presentation of a lecture is worthy of credit . |
| 4 | However , in this case only the first reference to any descriptor appears in an index , while all further linkages are made from record to record ( rather as in a chain of synonyms in a direct file ) . |
| 5 | Note that only the first kind of relational information , i.e. that on the speaker-referent axis , imposes intrinsic limitations on the ways in which such information can be encoded — namely in referring expressions , and morphological agreements with them . |
| 6 | It is always dangerous when the hon. Gentleman reads only the first half of a sentence . |
| 7 | The right hon. Member for Lagan Valley said that he was not clear whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman had finished or was still giving way , and my right hon. Friend referred to what looked like only the first half of his speech . |
| 8 | Only the first part of this work is much read nowadays and that is what is discussed here . |
| 9 | Cyril Humphries , the dealer who supplied Dr Sackler with most of his maiolica , backs up Mrs Sackler 's claim , noting that ‘ Dr Sackler always told me he would like to keep the collection intact … he wanted eventually to collect the entire spectrum of ceramic arts , and the maiolica was only the first part of it . ’ |
| 10 | He would have been wiser to have published only the first part of this book . |
| 11 | Here we give only the first part of Ohmann 's illustration : [ 8 ] the desk and the shelf above it on which rested the ledgers in which McCaslin recorded the slow outward trickle of food and supplies and equipment which returned each fall as cotton made and ginned and sold … |
| 12 | It was wonderful , the shops were excellent , it was only the first day of our holiday and I had spent most of my money . |
| 13 | Perhaps only the first Test between New Zealand and South Africa in 1952–53 can rank with it , when each side had four players whose surname started with the letter M. South Africa had McGlew , McLean , Murray and Mansell , while the New Zealanders fielded Meuli , Miller , Mooney and Moir . |
| 14 | Greece thus offers not only the first instance of this change but also the essential one for any attempt to isolate the cultural consequences of alphabetic literacy ’ ( ibid. p. 42 ) . |
| 15 | What needs to be stressed at this juncture is the fact that this historical moment , the focus of attention in this book , centred as it is on the literary production of an interwar French communist writer , marks only the first phase of development of French socialist realism , a phase characterised in the international sphere by an objective alliance after 1934 between Western liberalism and Soviet communism designed to counter the threat of fascism , and characterised in the French national context by practical collaboration between the PCF and bourgeois liberal parties . |
| 16 | Lily was on the point of having what might yet prove to be only the first stage of a thoracoplasty . |
| 17 | Once again , constraints on space make it necessary to address only the first stage of development , which occurs between the ages of 0 and about 18 months . |
| 18 | This is a weak test because an invitation to interview is only the first stage of selection . |
| 19 | But this is only the first stage of WEN 's campaign , and one element of the findings in The Sanitary Protection Scandal . |
| 20 | However , as was pointed out there , the waves predicted by such theory are only the first stage of the evolution towards turbulent motion . |
| 21 | ‘ Volatility is only the first stage in measuring risk . |
| 22 | Getting the enquiries procedure right is only the first stage in setting up a good media relation programme . |
| 23 | Assigning children to levels within attainment targets is only the first stage in the ranking of children and schools which the government sought to establish . |
| 24 | The basis of this approach is the belief that the response which a subject makes is not an immediate outcome of sensory stimulation but results from a number of processes which occur over time , stimulation of the sensory receptors being only the first stage in a series of events . |
| 25 | Our experiments with Zeta are only the first milestone along what may be a longish road , and we can not see the end of the road . |
| 26 | Overall , getting computer records submitted as evidence in court is only the first aspect of the evidential requirements companies need to address when implementing an electronic documentation system ; getting the court to accept the contents as adequate proof , or a good record , is an even more important consideration . |
| 27 | The recent announcement of a long term collaboration agreement with JCI on the development of fuel cells is , I believe , only the first example of this . |
| 28 | Bernstein , Kearsley & Zapas ( BKZ ) , however , consider only the first term of such an expansion and write ( Compare the form of this with the Boltzmann expression ( 3.5 ) . ) |
| 29 | The mechanical output power per phase is simply the product of the phase current and the induced voltage ( Fitzgerald and Kingsley , 1952 ) : As the system is assumed to have an inertia large enough to prevent significant changes in velocity , the time.varying components of mechanical output power are of no interest and only the first term of Eqn . |
| 30 | Reforming the blasphemy law is only the first item on a lengthening Muslim agenda . |