1.   But admission is merely the first hurdle a student must clear in higher education.

2.   Devising an evocative name is only the first hurdle.

3.   Finding enough money for the project was the first hurdle.

4.   Two-thirds of candidates fail at this first hurdle and are packed off home.

5.   Unfortunately life is not so simple, you have only passed the first hurdle.

6.   Although the first hurdle had been passed, she was still anxious for him to go.

7.   A THEME park on the former Windsor Safari Park site has cleared the first planning hurdle.

8.   ANDRE AGASSI will claim a slice of unwanted history if his Wimbledon defence falters at the first hurdle next Monday.

9.   And because the burden of proof at the early stage is so low, most cases, legal experts for defendants say, make it past that first hurdle.

10.   Because the use of mediators is voluntary, their first hurdle is to gain the trust of the opposing sides.