Example sentences of "for [noun pl] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They still did n't want both openers out for ducks in the first two overs , nor Jones to follow for 5 . |
| 2 | The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee ran the national campaign for recruits in the first eighteen months of the war , through party rather than national channels . |
| 3 | Both the Britons ' and the IFL literature contained lurid tales of alleged Jewish responsibility for crime , the white slave traffic , for casualties in the First World War , for corrupting public life and for financial malpractices and banking irregularity . |
| 4 | This was set as the minimum for contributions to the first loan , in 1522 , men of less substance being let on until , perhaps , the yield had proved disappointing . |
| 5 | So when the wedding was over , the special train pulled out amidst a rainstorm , and there was an undignified scramble for seats in the first ordinary scheduled train into Windsor Station . |
| 6 | Hickox will cover mainly English music ( see our new release listings for details of the first Alwyn project ) and will include work with the Bournemouth SO , LSO City of London Sinfonia , early music ensemble Collegium Musicum '90 and Opera North . |
| 7 | Multilateral negotiations on refugees were held in Ottawa , Canada , on Nov. 11-12 [ see p. 38932 for details of the first round of refugee talks in Ottawa in May 1992 ] . |
| 8 | By the second half of the 1980s , total spending on African education had exceeded that for whites for the first time , though Africans make up 70 per cent of the population and whites only 17 per cent . |
| 9 | The fifth round of negotiations began on Jan. 12 , 1990 ( for developments in the first three rounds see pp. 36644 ; 36835 ; 36909 ) . |
| 10 | A policy of normalisation to ensure that the circumstances of children in care should be as near to those of children not in care , to be achieved through planning for permanency , was formulated ; and a practice of finding alternative families for children as the first choice , using residential care mainly as a brief transitional experience , was implemented . |
| 11 | Felt-tips or fibre-tipped pens that give a strong , dark line are useful for children in the first classes , the disadvantage being that pressure can cause the tips to splay or split . |
| 12 | For graduates in the first 10 years after graduation . |
| 13 | Okay now at this stage you do n't normally have to ask for volunteers for the first group because it usually sort of role then off they go . |
| 14 | The City of London plan was for students in the first semester ( sixteen weeks ) to take three basic courses , followed by a second semester in which three introductory courses stemming from the basic courses would be followed . |
| 15 | They are even calling for strikes for the first time in their history . |
| 16 | In Birmingham , the largest number of placements for juveniles during the first eighteen months of the scheme were as messengers and porters , workers in drilling , milling , engineering , and brass foundries , business clerks , and labourers in warehouses . |