Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the first of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may with good reason be regarded as the first of that long line of professional civil servants who did more than any others to make and destroy the medieval Church : they were professional administrators , equipped to forward the interests of government not by main force but by negotiation amidst the intricate issues of law and theology ; men of international standing , retaining the respect of their opponents , and not too hatefully or too personally involved in the cause which they were required to maintain . |
| 2 | And you , my dear Mary , respected though your name is — you are insufficiently regarded as the first of that invaluable breed , preceeding them by at least one whole generation ! |
| 3 | They were made to stand and wait in the first of these . |
| 4 | Many people would claim that the role of science is confined to the first of these and that theoretical physics will have achieved its goal when we have obtained a complete set of local physical laws . |
| 5 | Here we focus on the first of these . |
| 6 | In looking at the first of these it must be recognized that no map , however detailed or carefully compiled , can perfectly represent the ‘ ground truth ’ , while in the second instance , the digitizing process merely serves to compound the errors present in the original map ( Poiker 1982 ; Blakemore 1984 ) . |
| 7 | Now if we look at the first of these in terms of structure we can see that it can be defined as a dramatic exercise , fulfilling the principal requisite of exercise as outlined in Chapter Three — a commitment to a short-term task . |
| 8 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 9 | However , the contractual commitment stems from the first of those calls on the basis that it is followed up by the time agreed . |
| 10 | However , he got out of the commitment and at the age of 20 embarked on the first of many journeys to Europe . |
| 11 | In his manner of thought and sympathies , Anselm belonged to the first of these two periods , both with regard to the organization of the Church and the supremacy of the monastic foundations which had maintained the spiritual life of Europe for three or four hundred years . |
| 12 | If we pivot in the first of these , as indicated in the tableau , we obtain P3/T2 in which θ = θ . |
| 13 | We then talked about the first of those two towers of Tower Bridge if you remember which was about the skills that we need for er delivery . |
| 14 | The editors talk about the first of these , and present the volume as a contribution to the necessary project of challenging theory . |
| 15 | If we decided through the first of these two methods , which begins with moral assessment of each individual 's record one by one , that each shareholder was indeed responsible for a share of the loss , then we might well report our conclusion in the language of personification . |
| 16 | The main debate within planning has focused on the first of these types of development . |
| 17 | Including a review of material already published about women and philosophy , she distinguishes between female , feminine and feminist points of view , and then , focusing on the first of these , she considers how philosophy could or would be affected by the inclusion of more women in its institutional structures . |
| 18 | In the economics of oligopolistic markets the distinction between ‘ explicit ’ and ‘ tacit ’ collusion turns on the first of these elements . |
| 19 | Here we have stumbled on the first of many . |
| 20 | A. W. McClellan , whose writings on this subject are indispensable reading , refers to the first of these approaches as ‘ logistic ’ and the second as ‘ bibliographical ’ . |
| 21 | European eyes are fixed on the first of these figures : public spending that is now shooting through the ceiling set in the EC 's self-denying ordinance of 1988 . |
| 22 | The usage embodied in the first of these quotations is now well established in the literature , and the sentiments expressed in the second serve to remind us that the idea of the ultimately contingent nature of what is often taken to be ‘ natural ’ has a long and distinguished pedigree . |
| 23 | The track continues west along the edge of the escarpment before turning left to the first of many little lakes — Parabaun . |
| 24 | The governments of France and Germany , for example , fall into the first of these categories , and those of the United States and the Commonwealth countries into the second . |
| 25 | Some astronomers have convincingly argued that a BL Lac object ( a clumsy terminology referring to the first of this class to be discovered ) is simply a quasar with one of its beams pointing straight at us . |
| 26 | Here we come to the first of many possible variations , in that this change of gain may be continuously variable or switched between two different values . |