Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War .
2 The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis .
3 When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place .
4 In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting .
5 But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place ,
6 Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two .
7 But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through .
8 The rules which must be followed in arranging and conducting the election are set out in the first schedule to the 1983 Act as amended .
9 The actual request is set out in the first part , which gives the relevant addresses and which may specify a particular mode of service .
10 ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 .
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