Example sentences of "[noun pl] 's first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1985 study reports no examples of parents teaching their children at home under the guidance of a teacher ; no activity packs for use at the time of the children 's first admission to school ; no parents helping in the classroom with music , and no home-school liaison assistants or secondary/junior/infant liaison teachers . |
| 2 | Moving on , I am sorry we need to , to nineteen forty five which saw Save The Children 's first involvement with pre-school playgroups here in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | That woman is many English children 's first encounter with death , lying there knees to chin , folded , flaking , tendons taut . |
| 4 | In the men 's First Division , there were no surprises with Malory , the champions , beating MGI Wessex 15-6 , 15-13 , 15-13 and Polonia , who have made such a fine start to the season , defeating Hilton Leeds in five sets . |
| 5 | Glasgow City Brightsiders are the only one of the leading men 's sides in action and they can overtake Edinburgh Burger Kings at the top of the men 's first division if , as they should , they take care of the young Cumnock team at Cumnock Academy tomorrow . |
| 6 | Glasgow City Brightsiders went back to the top of the men 's first division with a 117-67 away win over Cumnock . |
| 7 | Pentland — who are currently propping up the bottom of the men 's first division table without a win — have called for a bigger , more competitive league next season . |
| 8 | The club was reacting to a proposal by Glasgow Brightsiders that the Scottish men 's first division should consist of just six teams next season . |
| 9 | However , it will be a week on Sunday before the men 's first division title is settled following Livingston Bulls ' surprise defeat by Edinburgh Burger Kings at Meadowbank last Friday . |
| 10 | This game should enable them to overtake Kings , who have completed their fixtures , on points difference and retain the men 's first division title . |
| 11 | The men 's first division title will be decided in Glasgow this Saturday when leaders Su Ragazzi meet champions West Coast . |
| 12 | At the men 's first appeal hearing in 1987 , Skuse said he used a 0.1 per cent solution of caustic soda , which would not dissolve nitrocellulose , but which would also reduce the sensitivity of the test for nitroglycerine . |
| 13 | Fields 's first scheme had been to capitalise on the aftermath of the Falklands conflict , by operating a service between Gatwick and Port Stanley . |
| 14 | Having already turned down Fields 's first licence application in December 1983 , Raymond Colegate , the CAA 's commercial director and the chairman of the licensing panel , was ‘ deeply sceptical ’ of Fields 's ability to get the project airborne . |
| 15 | City of Edinburgh have won the women 's first division title and Royal Deeside are certain to win the women 's second division title , with one game remaining . |
| 16 | A good example is the Russian matrioshka doll — the fat mother with smaller clones within — that the heroine of poet Carol Rumens 's first play Almost Siberia twists apart in a central crisis scene . |