Example sentences of "[verb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | By 1986 there were just over 2,800 establishments in the 23 British zones , 70 per cent of which were located in the first designations of Swansea , Tyneside , Corby , the Isle of Dogs , Wakefield , Dudley , Speke , Clydebank , Salford — Trafford and Hartlepool . |
| 32 | In our study , all strictures appearing in the first decade and 82% of those appearing in the first two decades of disease were benign , while most ( 61% ) arising after 20 years or more were malignant . |
| 33 | In our study , all strictures appearing in the first decade and 82% of those appearing in the first two decades of disease were benign , while most ( 61% ) arising after 20 years or more were malignant . |
| 34 | Three methods were being tried : A benign substance called Hot Foot Gel painted on the top of transformers and similar equipment to produce a ‘ sinking ’ feeling for the Hoodies when they try to land ; Plastic strips with irregular plastic spikes fixed to the top of equipment to discourage the birds from landing in the first place ; Non-working poles incorporating ‘ alternative nesting pans ’ were erected at selected sites to encourage the crows to use them instead . |
| 35 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 36 | I need to explain why this was happening in the first place . |
| 37 | The Portadown player had to work in the first couple of frames but after that he stepped up a gear and dismissed the English player almost scornfully . |
| 38 | Rauschning was an ex-Prussian cadet who had been wounded in the First World War . |
| 39 | Sergeant Tom Durrant , Royal Engineers and 1 Commando , was badly wounded in the first exchange of fire as the ML 's commandos and naval crew brought their light weapons to bear on the German destroyer . |
| 40 | Jitters had been wounded in the first landing , in the shoulder . |
| 41 | Thus the question , to sharpen up the one we posed in the first chapter , is not : ‘ How can I stop myself getting ‘ like that ’ ? ’ , as if ‘ like that ’ were a chronic condition into which one slowly but permanently sank . |
| 42 | The elections were thus marked by a high rate of abstention : only 38.89 per cent of the electorate voted in the first round and 33.38 per cent in the second . |
| 43 | Only two cases of gonorrhea were reported in the first 19 months , compared with four a week previously . |
| 44 | In these ‘ policed provinces ’ crime was to be reported in the first instance to headmen who would in turn notify the police of serious offences . |
| 45 | J.W.B. Douglas ( 1973 ) found that children who have no stressful event reported in the first four years of life ( especially the third and fourth ) are much less likely to wet their beds than children who have experienced these events . |
| 46 | These casualty totals have to be set against the continuing growth in traffic which was reported in the first Plan . |
| 47 | Clearly , this will be related in some degree to the increase in the number of people owning and driving cars which was reported in the first Plan . |
| 48 | Scenes of disorder on a smaller scale were reported in the first two weeks of February in Laghout , Constantine , Tiaret , Medea ( where disturbances lasted six days ) , Bourj Menail , Mascara , various suburbs of Algiers and elsewhere . |
| 49 | One hundred and eighteen for three , which means thirty-nine runs added in the first hour today and it 's Tufnell coming up now to bowl , DaSilva , up he comes , bowls this one , DaSilva pushes forward and it just goes under the bat and fielded there by the wicketkeeper , no run . |
| 50 | Several titles are already available with the joint logo , and the first new titles under the arrangement come in the first half of this year . |
| 51 | ‘ Maybe if you 'd accepted my offer of an air ticket to all the other Grands Prix I would have come in the first six there , too . ’ |
| 52 | Though they 've slipped up lately , there is still hope that the Premier League will end up in the hands of the sort of club that the likes of Arsenal , Everton and Manchester United were trying to exclude in the first place . |
| 53 | Have you used Say in the first one , |
| 54 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 55 | On the one hand , such action would simply rekindle the international outcry that resulted in the postponement of the ‘ harvest ’ or cull in the first place . |
| 56 | The likelihood of dying in the first year is increased by no more than twofold . |
| 57 | And the overall toll , which includes sectarian murders , shows a similar trend with 46 people dying in the first five months of last year compared to 29 this year . |
| 58 | The Grand National meeting at Aintree has got off to a tragic start with two horses dying in the first race . |
| 59 | With trading in the first quarter similar to that of the second half of last year , the company is continuing to exercise tight control of the business . |
| 60 | Because the pattern of trading in the first year of the market was so confined by technical and political constraints it would be unsafe to generalise from it . |