Example sentences of "first of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So begins the story of Ragged Dick , or Street Life in New York , Horatio Alger 's first book — the first of 135 tales written in the late 1800s that together sold close to 20 million copies . |
| 2 | Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope . |
| 3 | The contemporary evidence for the generation after Sidonius , that is the last decades of fifth- and the first of sixth-century Gaul , is largely made up of letter collections . |
| 4 | Before he died in 1983 , Swire had the exhilarating experience of watching one of his Cathay Pacific aircraft landing at Gatwick airport , the first of innumerable scheduled passenger flights from and to Hong Kong by the airline he had built up as an international enterprise . |
| 5 | LAMLASH First of cheaper homes opened |
| 6 | Todor Zhivkov on Feb. 25 became the first of Eastern Europe 's ousted communist leaders to go on public trial , 14 months after the " palace coup " which had ended his 35 years in power . |
| 7 | Zhivkov , whose trial opened in February 1991 [ see p. 38017 ] , was the first of eastern Europe 's disgraced communist leaders to be sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 8 | Alfred Waterhouse was born in 1830 , the first of eight children . |
| 9 | The shock reformation followed an earlier treat for the capacity crowd at the first of eight shows celebrating 40 years of NME and benefiting the Spastics Society , when a ‘ rumpled ’ Shane MacGowan joined Cave onstage for a duet on Louis Armstrong 's ‘ Wonderful World ’ . |
| 10 | In 1984 , the first of eight massive plumes were detected by the NOAA over Novaya Zemlya , the Arctic island long used by the Russians for nuclear weapons tests . |
| 11 | The race around the fast but treacherous circuit was scheduled for 20 laps and was the first of eight races to count towards the European Formula Two Championship . |
| 12 | , Samuel ( 1616– c. 1672 ) , haberdasher and radical pamphleteer , was baptized 13 September 1618 ( two years after he was born ) at St Chad 's , Shrewsbury , the first of eight children of Daniel Chidley , tailor of Shrewsbury , and his wife Katherine [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | In the same year as Kittel 's Arien und Cantaten , yet another of Schutz 's pupils , his cousin Heinrich Albert ( 1604–51 ) published the first of eight ‘ parts ’ of Arien … |
| 14 | Undoubtedly this is but the first of competing efforts to develop ever more tempting animal/plant combinations . |
| 15 | The institution of conscience was at bottom an embodiment first of parental criticism and subsequently that of society … . |
| 16 | To achieve this necessarily takes time and it is thus the means and goals which we should examine today rather than the setting first of arbitrary ( financial ) parameters . |
| 17 | Five new openings were the first of 18 new crossing points announced yesterday by the East German authorities . |
| 18 | They also renamed it The Enterprise , and it was the first of 27 engines built by the foundry in 25 years . |
| 19 | McNaught-Mandli has the worst possible start number for the first leg of the cup , which is against the clock from the start , for she is drawn to go first of 46 competitors from 13 countries . |
| 20 | Johnson hit the first of four second-half three-pointers , 6ft 7in Chris Kearney began to use his muscle while England international Dave Gardner found his range . |
| 21 | Under the big stick policy , the US sent armed forces into Honduras in 1905 , Cuba in 1906 , Panama — the first of four invasions in a decade — in 1908 , Nicaragua in 1912 , Haiti in 1914 , and the Dominican Republic in 1916 . |
| 22 | 30% of Bulgaria 's electricity is currently nuclear generated and at Belene on the River Danube the first of four 1000 MW PWRs is expected to begin electricity generation in the 1990s . |
| 23 | Following the 1892 Corporation take-over , in 1894 car 4 and others were reconstructed with separate trucks , and in the same year the first of four large Palace cars , seating 82 , was delivered . |
| 24 | This is the ship named after the hero of the Argentine Navy in the 19th century , and it is the first of four Meko type destroyers that Buenos Aires has purchased from the Hamburg shipyard ( who in turn have been supplied with Rolls-Royce engines ) . |
| 25 | It still has to deal with sagging demand in its two vital markets — the UK and the US — while it develops the first of four new models for the late '90s . |
| 26 | Part of a set of 20 in all , this month 's cards represent the first of four instalments , covering popular tropical fish . |
| 27 | SAGITTARIUS- THE year gets off to a cracking start for Sagittarians : The eclipse on December 9 , 1992 was the first of four to exert a powerful effect on your life — especially if your birthday falls between November 22 and December 11 . |
| 28 | Prabhakar was the first of four victims on the day for pace bowler Allan Donald , who took 7-84 in the innings and finished with his best Test figures of 12-139 . |
| 29 | In the first of four topics , Father Harry Stratton , parish priest of St Alban 's , Macclesfield , spoke of the development in the Church 's teaching on baptism , seen as a movement away from the congregation being virtually spectators at the liturgy , to them becoming a parish community worshipping together . |
| 30 | To tie in , the BFI have launched the first of four booklets to accompany the first four movies named in the series , THE WIZARD OF OZ , DOUBLE INDEMNITY , STAGECOACH and WENT THE DAY WELL . |