Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the first ministry changes for example in the army , universities and Civil Service were revolutionary . |
| 2 | Particularly in the business of softer drugs , where the taxes can be lower and the restrictions less onerous , and where the first trial steps towards legalisation should take place , it would undermine the ‘ risk premium ’ that provides drug cartels with their profits . |
| 3 | Items like smoked salmon ( usually from Scotland or Ireland when served in the UK and the Loire when served in France ) , oyster , artichokes and asparagus , are regular first course features on French and international menus — and whether in English or a foreign language they are good choices for the figure- and health-conscious . |
| 4 | " Confound it , Lovat , " she had said upon first setting eyes on Topaz . |
| 5 | He became one of the first football commentators on radio , copying the urgent , excitable American style of the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ , earning himself the nickname of ‘ By Jove ’ Allison on the way . |
| 6 | Part 1 focuses on the methodological issues concerning the information needs and systems for monitoring the academic progress of entrants to first degree programmes in relation to their entry qualifications . |
| 7 | Table 1.5 First degree students from home and abroad ( 000s ) : Subject and mode of study |
| 8 | Table 1.6 First degree students from home and abroad by subject group , sex and mode of study |
| 9 | By 1980–1 , the number of CNAA first degree courses in art and design had grown to 196 , catering for over 15,350 students , of whom the great majority were to be found in the four Dip.AD specialist areas of Fine Art , Graphic Design , Three Dimensional Design and Textile and Fashion Design . |
| 10 | In addition , two agricultural colleges — Seale-Hayne , Devon in association with Plymouth Polytechnic and Harper Adams , Shropshire in association with Wolverhampton Polytechnic now offer CNAA first degree courses in Agriculture and Agricultural Technology respectively . |
| 11 | It was building on its strengths in aeronautical engineering and other areas , and had developed one of the country 's first degree courses in computer science . |
| 12 | The first bonding systems for dentine that were reproducible enough to eliminate the need for mechanically retentive cavities were first seen in the late 1970s . |
| 13 | In the very simplest analysis , the task of curriculum implementation can be said to involve two main processes : first changing attitudes of policy makers , administrators , teacher trainers , supervisors , teachers , parents and ultimately ( the sole goal of the process ) learners ; secondly providing the materials and administrative means to make this possible . |
| 14 | the vehicle in question , a 924 Porsche , is owned by an assassin with the rank of major ( in an army he wo n't tell us about ) , who is on first name terms with Bill Gates of Microsoft . |
| 15 | The expectation was that IBM Corp would throw everything including the kitchen sink into its fiscal first quarter figures in order to give Louis Gerstner as clean a platform as possible on which to build — but the company unaccountably dressed the figures up a little , by taking a $95m tax credit in the quarter , without which the net loss would have been $380m ; interest charges in the first quarter declined by 12.5% to $305m . |
| 16 | WALL Street roared to a new record yesterday on the back of better-than-expected first quarter profits at computer giant International Business Machines and hopes of lower interest rates . |
| 17 | Much of the film shows the painter simply going about his task , first scratching outlines on parchment and then on to the canvas . |
| 18 | In part two : Fireworks backstage : First night nerves for Barnum . |
| 19 | His first student essays in photography show him fascinated by natural order and symmetry , the geometry of nature , the abstract face of concrete things . |
| 20 | Not just because of the Durham Clothing Company 's premises on the dulcetly named Dabble Duck Industrial estate ‘ first quality goods at factory sunny Shildon features prominently . |
| 21 | Harry ( H.H. ) Wills was one of the first Engineering students at University College Bristol after its opening in 1876 . |
| 22 | This point emphasises the difficulty in access to first rank journals for work from third-world countries where customs and ethical values are different . |
| 23 | Further transfers from Rainey ( Un ) and Agnew ( UPNI ) in Stages VIII and IX ensured the election of two candidates from VUPP , a party which had only .7 of a quota of first preference votes at Stage I. |
| 24 | The very first spending stacks of money now , ? |
| 25 | Taylor had his own first hand problems with television during the European Championship when public relations , an accepted strength , became his Achilles heel . |
| 26 | In the autumn of 1984 I introduced a bill to bring the first pension reforms into effect . |
| 27 | In order to do this the transnational capitalist class must promote , outside the First World heartlands of capitalism , a ‘ comprador ’ mentality throughout society . |
| 28 | In my own university , for instance , the number of first year students of biology that we have been able to accept this year has been entirely constrained not by the quality of our applicants but the physical size of our teaching laboratories . |
| 29 | King & McGaw is a specialist poster publisher and distributor , as is Motif Editions , which I would strongly recommend for academic bookshops in university towns , since demand amongst first year students for Motif 's Escher posters and Salvador Dali prints never ceases to amaze me . |
| 30 | However , the most detailed figures currently available for the degree subject/type of work relationship are in the university sector where the data relate 112 subjects or subject combinations to 121 first destination types of work . |