Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [coord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report suggested that it was not the ultimate loser 's fault that the judge at first instance and the Court of Appeal did not get the right answers , and that the loser should not be liable for the appellate costs . |
| 2 | If this help is given it will be for three months in the first instance and the position will be reviewed from time to time after that . |
| 3 | It is useful to divide office software into two groups — the first division and the rest ( Deeson , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | The interval must be long enough to avoid any carry-over practice effects between the first administration and the second , but sufficiently short so that it can be assumed that there will have been no change in the real underlying abilities of the children concerned . |
| 5 | It was coincidence that the year 1918 witnessed the retirement of the BDDA 's first President and the death of its founder . |
| 6 | Our work uses information from the first interview and the benefit records . |
| 7 | If a Bill is passed by the Commons in two successive sessions having been rejected by the Lords , it can be presented for the Royal Assent provided that one year has elapsed between the date of its second reading in the Commons in the first session and the date of its passing by the Commons in the second session . |
| 8 | I suspect the left hook with which he floored Ali in their first bout and the controversy aroused when referee Harry Gibbs decided Bugner had outpointed him will remain important entries in British boxing long after the widely-publicised arguments between Eubank and Benn have faded from memory . |
| 9 | France dominated most of the first half but the home side , one of South Africa 's weaker provinces , came back after trailing 15–3 at half-time to threaten an upset . |
| 10 | This was n't sufficient to make up the ground lost in the first half and the outcome for the year as a whole , you now see . |
| 11 | Still short of the halfway line now we 've already played over a minute of added time in the first half and the referee oh I thought he was gon na blow for half time , instead he 's spotted something on the nearside of the field , it 's a free kick to Blackburn . |
| 12 | This is a combination of the list we used for the first plan and the list used for the draft of the second plan . |
| 13 | This kept her in Scotland cut off from the son of her first marriage and the daughter of the second in France , both of whom she clearly loved . |
| 14 | A Win bet means that the horse you select must come in first place and the amount that you win will depend on the odds . |
| 15 | The Chief of the Air Staff and a crew from RAF Odiham with a Chinook helicopter lifted the coach from Blackpool beach providing useful publicity for First Leisure and the Association . |
| 16 | Both knew the other was thinking of their first meeting and the case of murder in which Meredith had found herself so painfully entangled . |
| 17 | Also , in 1920 , the first meeting or the League of Nations took place in Paris , with subsequent meetings at Geneva . |
| 18 | I am reminded of the lesson I took in a school in Sylhet which I described in my first article and the way the understanding of the task helped the children to understand the English I was using . |
| 19 | I , I did do years gone by yes and they , they did move into the football combination at one time , because it was considered that the Midland Intermediate League was too big a jump for young men into the first team and the difference was so vast in the type of football that Walsall second team they u only playing young fellas , and they used to win seven and eight goal margins every week you know , but then they moved up into combination that was a better standard of football , but latter years economy drives and everything they came back out of the combination reverted to the Midland Intermediate again which I believe there are two phases of that no one for s older players and the other one strictly for youth players |
| 20 | Still , Potter said that as ‘ sales , profitability and liquidity have progressed well in the first quarter and the outlook is good ’ , the board is recommending an increase in the final dividend to 1.5 pence from 1.4 pence per share last time . |
| 21 | Losses on the Commercial Property account in connection with the Perth floods amounted to $10m in the first quarter and the terrorist explosion in the City of London at the end of April cost an estimated $10m net , excluding the reinstatement premium . |
| 22 | It expects a loss for the first quarter and the loss will be substantially larger than analyst estimates — the average forecast has been for a loss of two cents a share on turnover of $565m — a figure the company says is way too high . |
| 23 | ‘ Beat that , ’ challenged the first wife and the game of golf was born . |
| 24 | " All right , but first I 'd like to know if you 've heard of the return of the Marquis of Rossmayne 's first wife and the death of his second . " |
| 25 | Comparison of ‘ An Ode on Mercy ’ in the first volume and the version printed with the subscription proposals also reveals differences , though again it is difficult to know whether the editor of that volume was following Leapor 's manuscript in preference to a version corrected possibly by Garrick . |
| 26 | The first mate and the ship 's engineer took their meals at different times , and did not use the saloon as a sitting-room . |
| 27 | Solti 's reading can nevertheless by prized for its straightforward handling of the central phase of the first movement and the climax of the third . |
| 28 | 25 Sonata for piano , K.310 in A minor , opening showing the end of the first movement and the beginning of the Andante . |
| 29 | Cut the first slice and the juice will run out . |
| 30 | Approximately half of all reinfarcts occur within the first month and the rest tail out to one year . |