Example sentences of "[noun prp] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | CADW , the organisation responsible for historic monuments in Wales , is to carry out a new survey of listed buildings in Holyhead the first in 43 years . |
| 2 | And read the please six and visions from Viscuss The first one is going to be given a bit more time and then the other five are going to brief . |
| 3 | For both Chesterton and Williamson the first World War was a searing experience which provided lasting images of heroism , horror , comradeship , leadership and fear . |
| 4 | In March the first Soviet military units began withdrawing with their equipment from Czechoslovakia and Hungary . |
| 5 | There had been 169 executions in US states since the death penalty was restored by the Supreme Court in 1976 , most of them in conservative Southern states , but on April 6 Arizona had carried out its first execution for 29 years , while in March the first execution in Delaware since 1946 had been implemented . |
| 6 | And certainly you know I mean Yona 's list now of support for this next rally we 've got on March the first is huge I mean it 's sort of and that 's not gon na go away is it you know I mean next year I do n't know what we 're gon na be up to but hopefully we 'll be supporting somebody else in their er struggle for fair play and that network will obviously come into play you know I mean I 've we 've been South Wales have said , Oh you know these are all our contacts you know some of the women in South Wales and in Deeside they 've said these are all our contacts and these are the people that were good and did the work and got the leaflets out and brought the money in you know and it 's as simple as that really you know . |
| 7 | So so March the first is about the time ? |
| 8 | Now March the first is a Tuesday . |
| 9 | Practically what that means , is when you get to March the first , you would archive January and insert April . |
| 10 | That 's very true and they have a the industry itself , you know , now has to pick itself up and say right we , you know , and it 's very easy to talk oneself into recession and January and February , normally fairly dull months anyway , we are now , on March the first , Saint David 's Day , at the brink of a season which could be one of the best seasons they ever have . |
| 11 | Right so that was C one , C two it is a hundred and fifty miles from Hereford to London by rail Hereford is north of Cheltenham , it 's going up from Cheltenham is Hereford the first train in the morning takes three hours for the journey what 's its average speed ? |
| 12 | At Old Windsor the first group of five were Pavelka/Gots , Jannis/Jannis , Valerosi/Rossi , Ballard/Slater and Williams/Martin . |
| 13 | Not only was the Psittacidae the first volume ever to concentrate on a single species , it was , as Lear himself maintained , ‘ the first complete volume of coloured drawings of birds on so large a scale published in England , as far as I know — unless Audubon 's were previously engraved . ’ |
| 14 | In the Netherlands the First Chamber approved ratification of the Treaty by acclamation on Dec. 15 [ for November approval by Second Chamber see p. 39205 ] . |
| 15 | The Matra-Ford proved even more reliable the following season , as car and driver swept the board with six wins which gave Stewart the first of his three world titles , winning by 26 points from Jacky Ickx ( Bel ) . |
| 16 | Now , were Opren the first drug disaster presided over by CSM it might , to parody Oscar Wilde , have been reasonably ascribed to misfortune . |
| 17 | As the East German trains pulled into the border station of Hof the first refugees , many of them in tears , were greeted with cheers , applause and a local youth group singing the Beatles song ‘ Let It Be ’ . |
| 18 | Her story concerns the Princess Alicia , daughter of King Watkins the First , who is hard pressed to maintain his ever-growing family . |
| 19 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 20 | Now , that would have been a W I committee day so we 've had to alter the committee to the Tuesday , so I 'm afraid they 'll be no handy craft on Tuesday the first of December . |
| 21 | You know , Shelley , I suspected there was something between you and Rafaelo the first time I talked to him . |
| 22 | Grange Hill the first ever |
| 23 | The Andes of Peru , for example , provided animals like the llama and alpaca which were domesticated approximately 7 kyr BP , and in the Tehuacán Valley of Mexico the first permanent agricultural systems of the Americas were developed c. 8 or 9 kyr BP . |
| 24 | because we have , because it 's for the children , so I said we 'll do it , but that gives us an awful crush to get it in Friday the first week |
| 25 | In the history of the settlement of the United States the first white settlers in north America arrived in Virginia in 1607 , and by 1685 there was a serious increase in flooding caused by forest clearance . |
| 26 | In Britain came the Ferranti Mark I and the Leo computer , in the United States the first Univac machine was produced . |
| 27 | In the United States the first ‘ engineers ’ or drivers and their firemen performed other tasks , such as selling tickets and moving baggage and freight . |
| 28 | Inevitably , it had been parodied in the Eye as Men of the Past , awakening in Branson the first stirrings of what became a lasting sensitivity to adverse publicity . |
| 29 | Roxburgh was a royal castle and its associated township , both quite large , situated within the narrow point of land where Teviot joined Tweed ; a strong position where King David the First , son of Malcolm Canmore and Saint Margaret , had established his headquarters on accession to the throne , and from which he had in effect ruled Scotland . |
| 30 | But in other poppy growing areas of Afghanistan such as Nangarhar and Badakhshan the first sounds of a debate on crop substitution projects have been heard . |