Example sentences of "[noun] in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millwall were a disappointment in the first half ; they never played . |
| 2 | He said the Government was funding the association in the first place to the tune of £3.76m this year . |
| 3 | Following the example of the Collings , the divergence of type was continued by the Booth family of Killesby and Warlaby , Yorkshire , who in 1790 began to breed the Teeswater for fleshiness ( and were still doing so in 1919 ) , and Thomas Bates of Kirklevington in Yorkshire , born in 1775 , who bred for milk , both families making full use of Colling stock in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | So far as I am aware , no writer on Ultra has noted the comparison between the Coventry affair and an episode in the First World War when secret intelligence was apparently neglected in order to protect the source . |
| 5 | Novell expects to close the deal in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 6 | McDonald 's two-over-par round of 70 at Banff , coupled with a 69 at Fraserburgh in the first round , gave him a one-over aggregate of 139 and the Uniroyal Quaich for the first time at the age of 39 . |
| 7 | The correct dosage for your fish can only be supplied if you know the gallonage of your pond in the first place . |
| 8 | The Italian car industry received its much needed boost in the first race when Messrs Monoia and Morandi beat off 76 other challengers to win in an Italian-made OM , who filled the first three places . |
| 9 | His height and strength will be badly missed in attacked as Leicester field what must be the smallest striking partnership in the First Division . |
| 10 | A small amount of Italian may be included to give bulk in the first year . |
| 11 | A report in the Financial Times of April 21 , summarizing interviews with economic officials , said that the next stage in the Russian government 's economic reform programme would include a relaxation of tight controls on budget spending , in force in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 12 | Although rarely seen as an attacking force in the first half , the Whites , nevertheless , led 1–0 at half-time thanks to Billy Totten 's eighth minute goal , a tragedy for home keeper Declan Devine . |
| 13 | And despite the even bigger swing to the right-wing coalition in the first round of the elections on Sunday , investors flinched yesterday in anticipation of a move by the markets to test the resolve of the new government which is expected to take power after the second round of voting this coming week-end . |
| 14 | From her pretty cream bedroom in the first floor nursery , Diana enjoyed a pleasant prospect of grazing cattle , a patchwork of open fields and parkland interspersed with copses of pine , silver birch and yew . |
| 15 | Patsy Gallacher was a ship-builder , who played for Celtic when they were a dominant force in Scottish football in the first decade of the century . |
| 16 | Just ask Falkirk , who have produced some great stuff this season yet look increasingly likely to be playing their football in the First Division next season . |
| 17 | Derby may be flash with their money ; they were certainly flash with their football in the first half . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought some of the football in the first half was superb again . |
| 19 | Top recommendation in the first batch of ten titles is the excellent anthology ‘ Herbie Hancock — A Jazz Collection ’ ( ) . |
| 20 | The drivers of cars with an interior temperature of 27C missed 50 per cent more signals in the first half-hour than those with cars at 21C . |
| 21 | WHEN Sara Gomer , Clare Wood and Julie Salmon collapsed to a 2-1 defeat to Indonesia in the first round of the Federation Cup in Melbourne last December , they were the laughing stock of the tennis world , writes our correspondent from Tokyo . |
| 22 | In the early 1980s the need to incorporate IT within the teaching of publishing led to participation in industrial panels monitoring the development and adoption of SGML ( Standard Generalized Mark-up Language ) , investment in the first generation of dedicated word-processors , and research into communication protocols between what might now be characterized as taciturn dinosaurs . |
| 23 | For glutamine the rate of metabolism in the first hour was 5.1 ( 1.1 ) nmol/µg protein , 4.6 ( 2.2 ) nmol/h/ µg protein over two hours , and 4.3 ( 1.0 ) over three hours ( p<0.0001 for linearity test ) . |
| 24 | Lord Tenterden C.J. went on to point out that the defendant in the first action would not have been relieved from having to contribute to the defendant in the second case if the latter had been compelled to pay a larger portion than his share . |
| 25 | Before entering into a discussion of the reasons for the decline of the organized networks , and of the patterns of cattle theft in the first half of the twentieth century , 1 shall first discuss in some detail the administrative policies which affected cattle stealing in its heyday . |
| 26 | Why did saving collapse in the first place ? |
| 27 | There had been a total of eight candidates in the first round of voting on March 4 , after an agreement in December 1989 between the various political groupings to end the previous one-party system . |
| 28 | Commentators noted that some of the unsuccessful presidential candidates in the first round were likely to lend support to Ratsiraka in the second round , due to take place in January . |
| 29 | National Assembly elections involve two rounds of voting on consecutive Sundays with the two most successful candidates in the first round and candidates polling over 12.5 per cent of the vote going on to the second round . |
| 30 | In the semi-finals Pegg outpointed McGlinchey 2–0 , with Gallagher , who had a bye in the first round , defeating Jess 2–0 . |