Example sentences of "first [noun] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being LCPs ( Local Collaborative Projects ) , the LXs have been U63 pump-primed by the DES and TA to act in the first instance as venture companies designed so that collaborating partners — they may be translators , interpreters , printers , camera crews , copy- writers , export consultants , marketing advisers , experts in cultural briefings etc , — collectively address a market they could not individually satisfy . |
| 2 | Breast-feeding affects the time of recommencement in ovulation and menstruation — without it , the first menstruation after childbirth generally occurs after six to eight weeks , but lactation may delay this time . |
| 3 | The first pruning after planting is the important formative prune — the plant can not be expected to grow right if it does not start right . |
| 4 | The company recovered from a disastrous first half where business fell because of the Gulf war to deliver an operating profit of £21.3m against a loss of £114m in 1990 . |
| 5 | Profits eased back from £15.1m to £14.7m before taxation in the first half as turnover stagnated at £98.8m . |
| 6 | I think , since this is , after all , my first sermon as curate here — in fact , it 's my first sermon ever — I 'd better stop or the Bishop will be posting me back to Rosstrevor . |
| 7 | Richie Richardson was in his first Test as captain , leading a team minus Richards , Gordon Greenidge , Jeffrey Dujon and Malcolm Marshall for the first time in a Barbados Test since 1983 and , with Gus Logie and Carl Hooper eliminated by injury , showing six changes to that in the previous Test on the ground against Australia a year earlier . |
| 8 | Richie Richardson , in his first Test as captain , and Keith Arthurton , the flamboyant Nevisian left-hander , set about restoring momentum in a partnership of 82 in 19 overs before the rot , or rather an indisciplined passage of batting , set in . |
| 9 | Capirossi 's first winter as world champ was a mind-expanding experience for the youthful but remarkably mature Latin . |
| 10 | The stories have arisen in the first place because cannibalism is a fairly standardized imaginary attribute of the bestial " others " , not just among Europeans but in the world at large . |
| 11 | The this happened before , it happened in nineteen eighty seven erm on the first alteration when review er when they were a w wide range er of suggestions er made as to the appropriate level of provision . |
| 12 | United have been tumbling into trouble over the last couple of weeks … last time they won was Denis Smith 's first match as manager … |
| 13 | During Offa 's first years as king the southern kingdoms were relatively stable . |
| 14 | The £650,000 signing from Leeds could step into the first team if midfielder Steve Hodge fails to recover from the hamstring injury he suffered while training with England last weekend . |
| 15 | Ludwigshafen-based BASF AG says its magnetic recording media business was still losing money in the first quarter because pressure on selling prices remained strong ; the chemicals giant , which owns Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH , said that it intends to fight the pressure on its selling prices by continuing to cut its costs and by concentrating on its more profitable sectors . |
| 16 | If this is not the first LSSTRT since system startup , you may also get a %DCL-I-SUPERSEDE message , telling you that the logical name LIFESPANCONFIGURATION has been reassigned . |
| 17 | The original sin began in the first cabinet when treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton was said to have misused a married woman and government funds . |
| 18 | At the end of McBride 's first season as coach , Doyle contested the re-election and won a surprise victory . |
| 19 | In July he will open his first season as director with a production of the Jerry Bock romantic musical , She Loves Me . |
| 20 | The Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement ( PMDB ) , the largest single party in the congress , had at this stage refused to join the government ; it had opposed Franco 's first choice as Finance Minister but failed to have its own candidate nominated . |
| 21 | It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge . |
| 22 | One of Jacob Rothschild 's first decisions as Chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund was not to acquire for the nation the most comprehensive collection in England of naive art shop signs , weather vanes , country furniture , marine samplers and quilts , made between 1750 and 1900 offered by dealer/collector Andras Kalman . |
| 23 | Listeners to BBC Radio Solent will probably hear reports of the rescue first hand as yachting broadcaster Dennis Skillicorn 's daughter was aboard Tao . |
| 24 | We tend to feel that we can always cut off alter the first phase if money runs out but in fact we can not because the whole thing is a single investment . |
| 25 | George Craigen 's first duty as President of the London Centre of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland was to present the Centre 's inter-bank quiz trophy to some colleagues from the Royal Bank ! |
| 26 | The H pylori reinfection rate in the first year after eradication was 6.25% ( two of 32 patients ) . |
| 27 | Height velocity in the first year after operation increased dramatically compared with year before operation among patients with growth potential . |
| 28 | The mean height increment during the first year after diagnosis was 4.4 ( 2.3 ) cm . |
| 29 | Pesticide use was reduced by 65 per cent in the first year whilst crop yields increased . |
| 30 | He had had similar , though slighter , worries at Bec , not least during his first year as abbot , when he found himself immersed in lawsuits against those who claimed lands and tithes belonging to Bec for which no title deeds could be found . |