Example sentences of "the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Blackpool meeting was the first between Mr Savimbi and a British minister , underlining the importance Britain attaches to persuading Mr Savimbi to return to the conference table . |
| 2 | Consider two similarities , the first between two post-structuralists whose work is in most other respects incompatible , the second between post-structuralism and the post/modern . |
| 3 | After the failure of attempts to salvage the talks — the first between the two countries since May and originally scheduled for July — they were abandoned on Nov. 6 . |
| 4 | Two separate advertisements will run during the campaign which lasts for eight months , the first between May & August with the second between September and December . |
| 5 | For this , five years of full-time study are complemented by two years of practical training in architects ' offices — the first between third and fourth years , and the second after completing the Diploma in Architecture . |
| 6 | The agreement is the first between the nations since a 1970s pact on polar bear hunting . |
| 7 | The wedding , inside the top security Maghaberry Prison in Co Antrim , is understood to be the first between loyalist and nationalist inmates . |
| 8 | The players will train at Bradford next week and have three days together in Wales prior to the game the first between the countries since England won convincingly at Ebbw Vale eight years ago . |
| 9 | The tunnel was the longest in Britain at the time , the first over a mile in length . |
| 10 | To be the first over the wall of a castle or town which was being stormed ; to be encamped close to the wall of a besieged city and thus within range of missiles fired from its walls , these were acts which merited honour and respect . |
| 11 | And it was the necessarily progressive movement of the dialectic that was to ensure the victory of the first over the second , the success of the revolution . |
| 12 | In each case , London led the way , but was the first into recession , which meant in the long run that the relationship between the value of property in different areas was maintained . |
| 13 | The drivers , flushed and cursing , each trying to be the first into the city and to have their wares ready for sale before the city came to life . |
| 14 | Let us note , too , that coming as Marx did to English economics after he had studied Hegel 's philosophy of history , he could come with a mind predisposed to fit the first into a grand dialectical scheme such as the second propounded . |
| 15 | A good exhibit is that which commemorates the Pyrenean climbers and their notable ascents , such figures as Count Henry Russell or Ramond de Carbonnières , who was the first into the field and made thirty five separate ascents of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre between the years 1787 and 1810 . |
| 16 | Good so if we cut the first into twelfth what how many pieces would they get out of that 's be twelve pieces altogether okay . |
| 17 | And , as all marketing people know , it 's not always the first into the market that succeeds — more often than not it 's the one that shouts the loudest |
| 18 | Mrs Brocklebank was the first into No. 22 Church Row next day and the first to see the Pitts . |
| 19 | Didcot 's keeper , Andy Tucker was the first into action , punching away a dangerous looking free kick by Alec Stocker . |
| 20 | Mark the length of the second piece using the first as your guide . |
| 21 | As a woman 's teenage children leave home , she may interpret the loss of the first as a welcome freedom . |
| 22 | In fact patriarchy , class , and hierarchy all presupposed a law of gender difference which was at once divinely , naturally , and socially laid down , the law descending from the first through the second to the third . |
| 23 | Mahmud was the first through the door . |
| 24 | The first , the first down bit when you 're going down Plymouth Road . |
| 25 | The effect of the first past the post electoral system exaggerated trends in regional voting patterns , leaving Labour with one seat only in each of the South East ( excluding Greater London ) , South West and East Anglia — out of 108 , 45 and 20 respectively . |
| 26 | The beating was made worse by two crazy own goals , Mark Carlisle putting the first past his own keeper in the fourth minute and Stephen Young looping a spectacular back header over Grant in the second half . |
| 27 | Quality of finish was n't too good at many points on our test tractor , either , but we have to assume it was largely because our machine was one of the first off the production line . |
| 28 | Leading the field of revived interest in the hard-boiled fiction of Jim Thompson , Stephen Frears ' first American film ( the first off the slate from recently formed Martin Scorsese Productions ) enters a sleazy world of lower echelon crime , focusing on the fatal interaction of small time con Roy ( John Cusack ) , his estranged mother Lily ( Anjelica Huston ) and girlfriend Myra ( Annette Bening ) . |
| 29 | The first one on stage had to be the first off the coach that trundled them to and fro . |
| 30 | O'Leary is the first off the production line . |