Example sentences of "a [noun sg] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But good budgeting means having a budget in the first place , having a surplus beyond merest subsistence with which to plan , bulk buy , meet the emergencies which crop up constantly . |
| 2 | But a reduction in the First World is also essential . |
| 3 | He was now a lieutenant in the First Foot Guards , but had been seconded to the Prince 's staff because his father was an old friend of the Baron Rebecque . |
| 4 | In accordance with a letter of intent signed on Feb. 28 , 1989 , the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on March 29 approved a purchase in the first credit tranche ( i.e. for immediate disbursement ) equivalent in total to 342,880,000 special drawing rights ( SDR1=$1.29496 as at March 28 , 1989 ) , or 25 per cent of Venezuela 's total Fund quota , in support of its economic reform programme [ see p. 36459 ] . |
| 5 | FR GROUP , the aviation and defence equipment group where Michael Cobham is the chairman , is lifting its payment to shareholders from 6.37p to 6.69p , with a 4.35p final on July 3 , after overcoming a dip in the first half to increase its profits from £21.3m to £21.4m pre-tax in 1991 . |
| 6 | Captain Ally McKay grabbed a try in the first half and in the second half a brace of tries from his wing forward partner Watson secured the winning margin . |
| 7 | He has been established as a prose-character in the first scene at Achilles ' tent ( Troilus and Cressida , II.i. ) , where even Agamemnon addressed him in prose , by the law of adaptation to the lower centre of gravity . |
| 8 | In what follows , the branch or sector has been used as a category in the first classification of father 's occupations , with skill as a secondary and more arguable subdivision . |
| 9 | Just look at the conventional memory er if I put an entry in a cell in the first block of this column . |
| 10 | It is possible for the race to be won at very long odds , and on two or three occasions , assisted by Wigg , I had been able to locate the winning horse , or at least a horse in the first three , which , if the odds were long enough , nevertheless produced a satisfactory result . |
| 11 | Millwall were a disappointment in the first half ; they never played . |
| 12 | In the semi-finals Pegg outpointed McGlinchey 2–0 , with Gallagher , who had a bye in the first round , defeating Jess 2–0 . |
| 13 | Having been a soldier in the First World War , he really knows what he is writing about and is a great contrast to some of the pretentious poets who preach about war while they have never seen any violence in their entire lives . |
| 14 | Even Hitler , whose life and ideology glorified an untrammelled lust for power , surprises by his docility under discipline as a corporal in the first World War , and the little reported about his sexual tastes suggests that they were masochistic . |
| 15 | Everyone , it seemed , was doing well out of the erosion of the 1878 settlement except the Russians , for whom that settlement had been a defeat in the first place . |
| 16 | Why call a search in the first place ? ’ |
| 17 | Mr. McAllion : The Minister said that there will be only one form of financial assistance per company , in the form of the £48,750 to help people to put together a bid in the first place . |
| 18 | In 1946 , under the supervision of the Population Investigation Committee , a survey was conducted of the experience of every mother who had borne a child in the first week in March of that year . |
| 19 | Set yourself a time limit if it helps : ‘ I must ask a question in the first five minutes . ’ |
| 20 | We have simultaneously slipped back into a compromising embrace with the very form of instrumental utilitarianism which got the world into such a mess in the first place : that things are of value because they are of value to us , not because they are of value in themselves . |
| 21 | This was met with a reply of condonation , that 's to say his behaviour in Reno had demonstrated that he had forgiven his wife whatever actions on her part had forced him to seek a divorce in the first place . |
| 22 | For McCallen it was a poor day as he missed the Superbike race on doctor 's orders following a crash in the first 250cc . |
| 23 | It was no longer just a question whether reason and science could tolerate divine intervention in the apparently stable and unalterable laws of the universe ; the new and more insidious question was whether the universe had required a creator in the first place . |
| 24 | In my case , I 've got a 16-year-old in the first grade . |
| 25 | As Maxine Waters , the US congresswoman for South Central put it , in a sermon in the First American Methodist Episcopal Church last Sunday , ‘ People want to know why I 'm not saying exactly what they want me to say . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll be very disappointed if I 'm not competing for a place in the first one-day international on January 16 . |
| 27 | Offcourse Howard Wilkinson could n't guarantee him a place in the first eleven and Mr Wilkinson told Strandli that if he wants to leave Leeds United that 's fine with him , but he wo n't let him go for ‘ nothing ’ . |
| 28 | Though a successful player with Spurs and England , many doubted his ability to repeat the achievement of Ossie Ardiles by earning a place in the First Division . |
| 29 | Gloucester have lost more than a dozen players this season … they nearly lost more than that … a place in the first division . |
| 30 | Shelbourne , meanwhile , scored a 3-1 victory over Ukranian side Karpaty Lvov at Tolka Park , wiping out a one goal deficit from the first leg to earn a place in the first round proper of the Cup Winners Cup against Greek side Panathinaikos . |