Example sentences of "end [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was answered at the other end after the first ring by a friendly , but formal , female voice .
2 Only six of the 13 patients had a clear gall bladder at the end of the first procedure , but after further treatments that included cholecystoscopy , endoscopic sphincterotomy , and percutaneous cholecystolithotomy 11 patients had a gall bladder free of stones .
3 Only six of the 13 patients had a clear gall bladder at the end of the first procedure .
4 At the end of the first teaching practice I asked the teacher tutors ( who had all had experience of the previous system ) to make any comments they cared to about the new set-up .
5 By the end of the first lap , Senna led by 1.8secs .
6 By the end of the first lap he was in the lead group , following Klementiev , Bohacs and Zereske with Bartunek already in the process of being dropped and no-one else in sight .
7 Frank Adler had been in 2nd place at the end of the first lap , eventually dropping back to 9th , the best German result in the Quincey Cup series .
8 Strandman led most of the way but Goodchild came back steadily from 12th at the end of the first lap to win .
9 He controlled the race from the start and led by eight seconds at the end of the first lap , an advantage he increased to 15 seconds before winning by 20 at an average of 109.69 mph .
10 At the end of the first lap Walker was 30 metres clear and eventually came home 200 metres ahead of Reid who finished on 9:6.8 , 28 second adrift with Egeler finishing third further eight seconds in arrears .
11 By the end of the first decade of the 19th century , he had become quite prosperous and eventually established himself in one of the old Bradley furnaces , building Bradley House around 1817 .
12 Rex was employed as a toy importer but had also been in wine importation before he joined Khai Eng full-time towards the end of the first year .
13 The Spanish Medical Aid Committee reviewing the situation at the end of the first year had sent out forty-seven ambulances , eighty trained personnel , had constructed two base hospitals and several field hospitals and had set up a convalescent home — the Ralph Fox Memorial Home in memory of a well-known author and critic who had died in action in Spain during 1936 .
14 At the end of the first year I was summoned to the Dean 's office .
15 The third stage of data collection involves sequencing the collection so that the various forms of data are brought together at the end of the first year .
16 A special feature is the principle of delayed and informed choice by which students gain a broad foundation in the study of the humanities and do not have to commit themselves to their degree programme until the end of the first year .
17 Selection takes place at the end of the first year .
18 Selection takes place at the end of the first year .
19 At the end of the first year of this course students may , subject to satisfactory performance , transfer to the second year of the BSc Hons/Ord Applied Computing at Magee College ( see page 160 ) .
20 These darkening extremities , or ‘ points ’ , then slowly spread as the young cat becomes mature and by the end of the first year the Siamese has its adult pattern , with the nose colour covering most of its face , the dark ear-fringe spreading to include most of its ear surface , the tail-tip colour extending right up to near the base of its tail , and the pigment at the feet stretching halfway up its legs .
21 By the end of the first year of operation over 45,000 passengers had been carried , reflecting the latent demand for air transport in that environment .
22 THE AGREEMENT WILL BE REVIEWED AT THE END OF THE FIRST YEAR
23 His work prospered ; at the end of the first year he won the Literary Medal , and a cash prize which enabled him to go down and visit his mother .
24 At the end of the first year he went to France and Belgium on a two year mission for the Mormon Church , returning and graduating at BYU in 1973 .
25 When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families .
26 At the end of the first year of CCT one study found that local councils had ‘ succeeded in keeping four out of five contracts in-house — but at the cost of substantial job losses among lower paid workers ’ ( The Independent 28. 11.89 : 11 ) .
27 When tested at the end of the first year they were found to have developed on average at about half the rate that is usual , though there were indications that at birth they had been potentially normal .
28 These boys , when tested , were found to have an average IQ of 80 , thus showing a significant degree of recovery from the level reached at the end of the first year .
29 Various tests suggested gross retardation by the end of the first year .
30 By the end of the first year of revolution they had ten thousand members , so they erm increased in size ten times in the space of about six months .
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