Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [prep] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exams on first semester work is June . |
| 2 | In the accounts of first meetings , the subjects generally described the situation , physical appearance and attractiveness ( the first meetings described were often with members of the opposite sex ) , details of the initial conversation , comparisons of the person with oneself , and reaction of the other person to themselves . |
| 3 | They differ in that when the impressions are described in the accounts of first meetings , the situation is important to the impression . |
| 4 | The signs at first sight seem to be completely different from those of other scripts found in Minoan Crete , and they are often for this reason said to be an import : the disc itself is sometimes explained away as a foreign curiosity . |
| 5 | The courts of first instance |
| 6 | He struggled for a moment to remember the rules for first contact with alien cultures . |
| 7 | Since her father had not stipulated the exact time when they were to ride , Artemis was dressed and in the stables at first light lest she miss her treat by being late . |
| 8 | The embarrassments of first love and sexuality , and particularly the nature of violence and cruelty , become bearable or ‘ handlable ’ in a story set in the past . |
| 9 | The numbers of seats secured approximated to the quotas of first preference votes expressed and the only exception to this was the special case of North Down ( see below ) . |
| 10 | What was inside the cradles at first sight terrified me . |
| 11 | Waving to one side the 15–20- per cent changes in protein synthesis rates and enzyme activity I had reported , Francis Crick was explicit on this point at a Royal Society discussion meeting in London in 1977 when I presented the results we had by then obtained on imprinting in the chick and the effects of first exposure to light in the rat . |
| 12 | One slightly frustrating aspect of this book is the lack of a bibliography , meaning that one has to go hunting in the footnotes for first references . |
| 13 | Relatives are also ‘ consumers ’ and they too must be involved in service planning ; they know the problems at first hand in a way which professionals can never do . |
| 14 | Over the years I have observed the changes at first hand , with each new undergraduate intake , and have had to alter my terminology to suit . |
| 15 | BRITAIN 'S Aid Minister saw the suffering of the Somalis at first hand yesterday — two days after the Mirror showed the full horror to the nation . |
| 16 | It gives Universal the rights to first refusal on all Lee 's projects as writer , director , producer and actor and everything developed by his 40 Acres And A Mule company . |
| 17 | The patients with recurrent ulcers had significantly fewer gap gunctions in the ulcer margin than did the patients with first onset ulcer ( Table III ) . |
| 18 | But as time went on he realised he could not convey how the style had evolved without understanding the techniques at first hand . |
| 19 | The defendant initially bore his own costs , but was legally aided from 5 July 1990 , before the conclusion of the proceedings at first instance , until the disposal of the appeal by the House . |
| 20 | For each locality the records of first resort remain the early county histories , the relevant volumes in the Victoria County History series , and the proceedings of the county , or similar , historical or record society ; and no doubt local historians will wish to obtain some of these or , subject to the laws of copyright , obtain photocopies of selected sections . |
| 21 | The students on first degree courses numbered 45,759 in science and technology , 33,274 in arts and social studies , 15,361 in art and design , 12,911 in education , 12,782 in business and management , and 3142 on interdisciplinary courses . |
| 22 | Part-time enrolments have grown somewhat more rapidly than full-time ones , but the trends in first degrees awarded are more complex , with a slight decline in the universities and a steady increase in the polytechnics/colleges in recent years . |
| 23 | Ramsay Jameel who saw the camps at first hand , has been telling Robin Powell that refugees are putting up with appalling circumstances . |
| 24 | Erm it is always been planned that the this er release of the flight control system will be phased through five steps and the capabilities at first flight are more or less what we had been planning er right from the outset . |
| 25 | Erm it has always been planned that the this er release of the flight control system , will be phased through five steps and the capabilities at first flight are more or less what we had been planning er right from the outset . |