Example sentences of "on [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | To which the great shambling John Wayne figure replies : ‘ By stopping him getting on base in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | At that particular time , er , quite right , faced with the failing national economy , and it 's got worse than it was then , and an increase in poverty in , this controlling group produced its plan for 1990 ninety one and in it 's redirection packages which are now part of our agenda on Council we d we made to pledges , one was to change the nature of Council and the other was to redirect sources on the process of need and we put four point three million on redirection in the first year , four point seven the second year . |
| 3 | our next race is for football 's league championships … on Saturday in the first division Swindon slipped back and Oxford struggled … yesterday in the third division Hereford grabbed a point |
| 4 | In an experiment at Stamford school ( S. Smith 1984 ) , it was shown that , whereas girls ’ mathematics scores were equal to those of the boys on entry in the first year , by the end of the year , boys were scoring more highly . |
| 5 | And why did you go out on strike in the first place ? |
| 6 | But it was skewed development priorities that forced people into a continued dependence on livestock in the first place and huge , often foreign-owned ranches that pushed those people and their herds onto fragile , marginal land . |
| 7 | Entry to the final two years of this course is dependent on performance in the first three years . |
| 8 | Students apply for entry to an honours degree , but admission to the honours years depends on performance in the first part of the course . |
| 9 | Now , people often ask me , why go on holiday in the first place ? |
| 10 | While United threw away a hatful of chances Luton had two shots on target in the first half and hit the jackpot with one of them as Kerry Hughes got them a goal . |
| 11 | meanwhile , slipped up again at Croft Park , this time losing 2–0 Colin Mcleod and Paul Staff were on target in the first half hour . |
| 12 | In view of the Chancellor 's desire to maintain flexibility , the Association proposes that be should neither increase nor revalorise excise duty on spirits in the first 1993 Budget . |
| 13 | Having done just that half way through this contest which was judged on time in the first round , she had an agonising wait to see whether anyone would catch her . |