Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was needed was a simpler more speedy procedure and so Parliament intervened with the first Public Health Act in 1848 , the forerunner of modern public health legislation . |
| 2 | Hill reported at the first general meeting that Lord Hamilton and Sir William Birt of the GER Co. had promised to help the Alliance in ‘ every way they could ’ ( SE 14 October 1899 ) . |
| 3 | As he had argued in Totem and Taboo , murder occurred in the first human groups , and the prohibition on killing came from the father . |
| 4 | Some fungi succumb to the first heavy frosts , but there are others which seem to thrive in cold , wet weather . |
| 5 | One hundred and twenty one patients with parenchymal cirrhosis presenting with the first variceal bleeding episode between June 1983 and December 1988 were studied . |
| 6 | Two years later Eyre brought off the first British professional staging of Cavalli 's Jason at the Buxton Festival . |
| 7 | The world No 1 's five-shot overnight lead was ripped apart by Australia 's Great White Shark , who fumbled a 3ft putt on the last green before Faldo won at the first extra hole . |
| 8 | One of the finest of the towers commemorates Gregorio di Gregorio , a third generation patrician of the early thirteenth century — heir to a succession established at the first high point of San Gimignano 's revived prosperity , in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 9 | It was in 1851 that the Great Northern Railway established its locomotive works in Doncaster , and twelve years later the amalgamation of a number of railway companies led to the first regional monopoly , the North Eastern Railway , this business being engineered mainly by George Hudson , the ‘ Railway King ’ . |
| 10 | His rise to prominence came during the first Dutch war ( 1652–4 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I know it 's going to be a hard year and we 've still got a lot of work to do before the first European GP . |
| 12 | There is , for example , the familiar reference to ‘ playing at Creag ’ ( i.e. Creag-et ) in the wardrobe accounts for the first English Prince of Wales for March 1300 . |
| 13 | De Gaulle 's plan touched off the first major political storm of the postwar era , which rumbled on throughout the rest of the summer . |
| 14 | From local origins — Station KDKA in Pittsburgh — the transmission of radio broadcasts grew to the first national network , the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) of 1926 , closely followed by the Columbia Broadcasting Company ( CBC ) in 1927 . |
| 15 | I would also like to know how to get the Van Halen and Brian May sounds , and also the type of sound used on the first Extreme album , during the songs Watching , Waiting and Mutha as the distortion on both sounds smoother and less buzzy . |
| 16 | The artist 's impression of Ivan 's majestic features and lavish robes captures the awe inspired by the first Grand Prince to be crowned ‘ Tsar ’ . |
| 17 | If the originator has provided some issue identifiers in the SPR , it is sent to the manager of the package associated with the first valid issue referenced . |
| 18 | the package associated with the first valid Issue referenced |
| 19 | If the originator has provided some issue identifiers in the SPR , it is sent to the manager of the package associated with the first valid issue referenced . |
| 20 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 21 | By the early sixties … it was clear that neither the efforts made in the first post-war decade nor the developments outlined in Mr Butler 's White Paper were reducing — or were likely to reduce — the volume of crime or the numbers of persistent offenders . |
| 22 | In late August 1832 the West India Merchants ' Committee still attacked as thoroughly improper the abolitionist practice of pledging parliamentary candidates to immediate emancipation and publishing pledge lists in the first post-reform election . |
| 23 | More direct if under-stated evidence comes from the retrospective questions posed in the first official birth control enquiry in 1946 ( Lewis-Faning 1949 ) ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 24 | When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s , the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment . |
| 25 | Aims were defined , certain statutory regulations laid down and five officers elected for the first three-year term . |
| 26 | The volume concludes with the first country-house poem published in English , an encomium of the countess 's estate at Cookham , in which the passing of the seasons suggests the ephemerality of patronage relations ; the walks bear ‘ summer Liveries ’ , and the prospect of hills and vales appears to ‘ preferre some strange unlook 'd for sute ’ only as long as their mistress is in residence . |
| 27 | He carries the Staff of the Patriarchs made for the first Supreme Patriarch Volans by the warrior mage Fredrick von Tarnus after the Great War against Chaos . |
| 28 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 29 | The emphasis put on the respect shown by the first Ottoman rulers for the dervishes by granting them generous plots of land can also be interpreted as a denunciation of Bayezid 's policy of abolishing the rights on the and lands . |
| 30 | When George had rung off , Maxim reached for the First British Corps telephone directory which sat just beside the phone . |