Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first demarcation is between what is and is not ‘ higher education ’ ; this constitutes the general boundary within which knowledge and curricula are structured . |
| 2 | no , the brochure would not necessary have been out of date , it depended when the first occupation was , if er the first occupation was in July or August it may not have been necessary to update the brochure on Sept on the first of September |
| 3 | The first session was in danger of ending in chaos and frustration when a series of planned interventions , approved by Pope John , rescued it . |
| 4 | The first way is for each department to make its own plans without much regard to the others . |
| 5 | The first way is by taking the work off the machine with waste yarn , turning it and rehanging with the plain side towards me . |
| 6 | This meant the capital needed for furnishing the clubhouse could all be charged to the first year 's without deficit . |
| 7 | As a result most contracting in the first year was in the form of unsophisticated block contracts . |
| 8 | The first occasion was as a player 18 years ago . |
| 9 | The first occasion was in October 1991 , when I descended the station steps to find that the ELR 's intentional BR(LMR) 1950s image of maroon and straw everywhere , supplemented by ‘ double sausage ’ signs , had been suppressed . |
| 10 | The first occasion was in the wake of the Czech crisis and the Munich agreement of 1938 . |
| 11 | The first occasion was in the early 1980s when it and the Stock Exchange spent three years trying to develop an automated settlements system for the gilts market before the Bank took over total responsibility for the project in 1985 to develop what has become the highly effective Central Gilts Office . |
| 12 | The first leg is in the third race , the eight o'clock , this is the first quarter final . |
| 13 | Everything up there 's a complete write-off , and most of the first floor 's in pretty bad shape . |
| 14 | Disabled people and mothers with pushchairs would find no steps in the mall and access to the first floor is by escalator or lift . |
| 15 | It did n't seem likely : the first floor was in the roof itself with sloping outside walls and few places to hang pictures . |
| 16 | The first swap was in December 1983 but the council had not begun to play the market in earnest until late 1987 . |
| 17 | There are two columns of measurements to enter , the first column being for the actual body measurements and the second for the amount of ease that you wish to add to each of the actual measurements . |
| 18 | The first chart is of the consonant phonemes for one dialect of English . |
| 19 | Some two per 12 hour shift ( ie four per day ) were produced , the first order being for 200 . |
| 20 | The first course was on the table when we went into the dining-room . |
| 21 | The first tutorial was on Saturday and someone who hopes to get something out of the course over the next 6 months is assistant medical administrator in Oxford Claire Flanagan . |
| 22 | The first category is for Gangster Film that Does Not Include a Car Chase in a Multi-Storey Car Park . |
| 23 | It was begun about 1077 , the first construction being at the east end , so that the nave is early twelfth century and the façade a little later . |
| 24 | The first idea is of a metaphorical and anthropomorphic kind , and the second and third also call out for analysis , if only for the reason that there are other non-causal pairs of things such that the first explains the second and the second depends on the first . |
| 25 | What was I doing , in the late twentieth century , arguing that what happened in the first century was of relevance to whether or not I could be a deacon . |
| 26 | There is the objection , however , whatever else is to be said , that the third statement fails to follow from the first two only because of an ambiguity — and more precisely because the consequent of the first conditional is in fact not identical with the antecedent of the second . |
| 27 | I think it is , and therefore my judgment on the first demurrer is for the plaintiff . |
| 28 | On this particular occasion , the first fight was about getting Mother into suitable wet-weather gear . |
| 29 | On that occasion , although one of them only was present , both counsel and solicitor were in court acting on their behalf , and I find it very difficult to accept that neither counsel nor solicitor at the conclusion of the hearing explained in the clearest terms to the second appellant precisely what it was that she and the first appellant were to be restrained from doing . |
| 30 | The first level was of abstract theory and method ; the second was centred upon current policy questions . |