Example sentences of "in the first " in BNC.
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1 | In addition we are still receiving enquiries about prisoners featured in the first two series in 1988 and 1989 , and we have recently received a copy of a letter from Alattin Sahin , the Turkish prisoner of conscience in the 1988 , which someone has received on his release . |
2 | However , in the first few years groups did not appear to consider fundraising a priority . |
3 | Some of the main efforts of historians in the first decades of the twentieth century had been directed to putting order into a mass of material , analysing works and documents , and establishing historical data . |
4 | These functions have been well carried out by Baedeker guides since the foundation of the German firm in the first part of the nineteenth century . |
5 | Nearly all the stone steps in the first flight up to the half-landing were broken , with jagged edges where bits of tread had fallen away . |
6 | It consists of two alternating narratives , one of which is set in the eighteenth century and the other in the present , with the earlier delivered in the first person . |
7 | An autocrat falls in the first two books ; but the only one in the third is the author-autocrat of the hotel room who sallies into the bush , as if on impulse , to visit the mysterious , moveable ‘ front ’ . |
8 | General Jaruzelski bears no obvious resemblance to the Third World autocrats discussed in the first two books . |
9 | In the first place you will start to think about how an actor 's work differs according to the demands of the medium . |
10 | The British Theatre Association , mentioned in the first edition of this book , has for decades offered professional and all-embracing training courses for actors , directors , and young people . |
11 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
12 | In the first wave of the attack he was shot in the head and thrown on top of me . |
13 | But in the first term all students start from the base line , and take many classes , individual tutorials and work on production projects . |
14 | In the first term , rehearsals for the production project will usually be around two hours in length , but progressively more time will be spent on this aspect of the course as the student advances . |
15 | In the first place you are your own agent . |
16 | Is that something that you feel may come from the ‘ hothouse ’ atmosphere of drama school in the first place ? |
17 | But I think I got into drama professionally in the first place by accident . |
18 | The commemoration of the dead in the First World War was seen as a triumphalist commemoration of those who died for Britain . |
19 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
20 | It was the licensing system and licensing controls , after all , which helped to foster Britain 's peculiar ‘ brewery tie ’ and concentrate pub ownership in the hands of the brewers in the first place ; and it was the same system which connived at and partly encouraged the modern contagion of open-plan pub designs . |
21 | In the first of a two-part series , Michael Edwards selects wines which break the Italian mould |
22 | While stainless is tough and harder to scratch in the first place , once it does become marked the scratch is permanent , unlike a mark on silver-plated cutlery which can be removed by re-plating . |
23 | ‘ Well , if he was repairing the machinery , it ca n't have been safe in the first place , can it ? ’ |
24 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
25 | That 's why I left SIS in the first place . ’ |
26 | In the first of a new series , Richard Jackson of Radio 5 's Morning Edition looks at the quirky side of gardening life |
27 | Even in the first week of June , when potatoes were a foot high and oilseed rape was in glower , snow fell on high ground , and this makes a difference to what you can grow successfully . |
28 | Always expect and be ready for a launch failure in the first 500 feet on every launch . |
29 | A re-check should never be necessary , since this only implies the acceptance of a half-hearted check in the first place . |
30 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |