Example sentences of "the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | NME ca n't claim to be the first off the blocks with coverage of this splenetic musical bastard — that honour has to go to the now sadly defunct Sounds . |
| 32 | London-based HM Systems Plc which , with its Minstrel workstation was one of the first vendors to ship an 80486-based machine , says it also plans to be one of the first off the mark with Pentium machines . |
| 33 | Later the chairman of the Isle of Man Post Office Authority presented Lewin Cain , chairman of Douglas branch , with a framed sheet of stamps — the first off the press — and a donation of £100 for the branch funds . |
| 34 | ‘ Chairman — the first off the mark was Guy Husband from Six ‘ — I 'm sorry to be singing the school song so early , but the Meeting Notice was classified merely as ‘ Secret , . |
| 35 | In Denmark the normal pattern of Social Democratic government was disturbed by the emergence in 1982 of a four-party centre-right coalition , headed by a Conservative Prime Minister — the first since 1905 . |
| 36 | The agreement was accompanied by a $42.3million payment to the Fund by the Peruvians — the first since 1986 — to cover repayments due between September and December , according to an announcement in Washington on Monday . |
| 37 | They welcomed the recent reopening of a nightclub — the first since fighting in the city ended in December . |
| 38 | So I 'll blur over the consequences for Ulster and hurry on to my next point — the re-establishment of an Irish House of Lords , the first since 1801 . |
| 39 | One final conundrum concerns why the El Nino chose this winter to make its return — the first since 1972 . |
| 40 | THE FALL release their second Cog Sinister/Fontana LP ‘ Shiftwork ’ on April 22 , the first since the controversial departure of Marcia Schofield and Martin Bramah last summer . |
| 41 | Singer Chris is probably the first since Silverfish 's Lesley from these parts to totally revel in being a pack leader . |
| 42 | A fourth term , the first since 1826 . |
| 43 | Cool Ground , set to carry top-weight of 12st , would be attempting to become the first since Burrough Hill Lad in 1984 to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup and Hennessy in the same year . |
| 44 | The fall in profitability in 1991 was the first since 1982 , and this trend is clearly set to continue . |
| 45 | In the late 1950s Western Europe was still basking in the afterglow of the 1955 Geneva summit , the first since the war between the United States and the Soviet Union . |
| 46 | MCI Communications Corp , Washington says that it intends to split its shares — now standing at $52.50 — two-for-one , the first since 1983 , the third in its 25-year history . |
| 47 | THE general election in Spain on June 6th will be the first since 1979 in which the winner has not been known in advance . |
| 48 | It will also be the first since 1979 in which none of the parties is expected to gain an outright majority . |
| 49 | One is the holding of proper competitive elections on June 8 ; the first since May 1946 . |
| 50 | On the same visit , the first since my early childhood , I found a reference written by a local doctor for my mother , who about 1930 applied for a job as a ward maid at the local asylum , confirming that she was clean , strong , honest and intelligent . |
| 51 | The Cabinet formed in the reshuffle of Ministers in the autumn of 1985 was the first since the war to contain no women ( apart from the Prime Minister herself ) . |
| 52 | For the first since Burns Supper were held in the hall we had to cancel as two main speakers called off at a very late stage . |
| 53 | For the first since Burns Supper were held in the hall we had to cancel as two main speakers called off at a very late stage . |
| 54 | He is only the fourth Irishman to win the award since it was introduced in 1951 , and the first since former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan ten years ago . |
| 55 | The transfer , which took place at Panmunjom peace village on the border between North and South Korea , was the first since 1954 and coincided with Memorial Day , the US national holiday to honour its war dead . |
| 56 | The Senate 's decision meant that Durenberger became only the ninth member to be so censured , and the first since 1979 . |
| 57 | Speculation on whether the historic meeting would actually go ahead , however , was intensified when , on the same day , a planned visit to the South by a North Korean delegation — the first since 1985 — was cancelled because of a failure to agree upon minor procedural details . |
| 58 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) had on Aug. 28 approved a standby arrangement authorizing purchases up to the equivalent of SDR35,000,000 ( US$50,000,000 ) , the first since July 1982 , in support of the government 's economic and financial programme aimed at reducing inflation , strengthening the balance of payments and contributing to projects for economic growth . |
| 59 | Overall the budget showed a financial surplus — the first since 1978 — of NZ$89 million . |
| 60 | In simultaneous elections in Berlin on Dec. 2 — the first since 1946 for a unified administration in the city — the CDU led by Eberhard Diepgen won a landslide victory against the SPD-Alternative List ( AL ) coalition led by Walter Momper , which had ruled in West Berlin since the last election in January 1989 [ see pp. 36403 ; 36530 ] . |