Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In preparation for the first National Assembly elections , scheduled for Dec. 21 [ see p. 38291 ] , the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) at its fifth national congress on Oct. 13 announced a draft manifesto containing a new clause pledging to " build a Taiwanese republic with independent sovereignty " and to redefine the territory of Taiwan , subject to a national plebiscite . |
| 2 | After that , he flies to Paris for a meeting with the French President , then on to Germany for the first historic conference with the heads of all the NATO , European Community and Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 3 | Following negotiations between the members of the ruling coalition , Franco Carraro was elected in mid-December as the first Socialist mayor of the city . |
| 4 | On Feb. 1 , 1990 , Saudi Arabia announced plans for the first electronic share dealing system in the Gulf , to be launched in April , which bankers said would revolutionize the market and attract many new investors . |
| 5 | Well a very close fought encounter at the stadium ; we had to wait for quarter of an hour for the first actual goal chance when Dave Bristow hit the ball from twenty five yards , which just cleared the bar . |
| 6 | BGS provided much of the logistical support for the first international conference arranged under the auspices of IGCP Project 294 , Very Low Grade Metamorphism , which was held at the University of Manchester , 5–6 July 1990 . |
| 7 | Together this mixture of lumpen proletarian resentment and art-school manipulation lit the fuse for the first major explosion in pop music — and pop culture — for ten years . |
| 8 | Politicians described the panel 's proposals for the first major reform of the 35-year-old Fifth Republic 's constitution as modest . |
| 9 | The BDDA 's farewell gesture to him was his election as the first Honourary Vice-president . |
| 10 | This test should be repeated once per hour after the first full hour of rainfall . |
| 11 | From the moment of its entry into action as the first all-American unit involved in the war , the Lafayette Squadron became the object of immense publicity throughout the United States . |
| 12 | He made his official Palace debut in the FA Cup tie with QPR on 5 January 1946 and was between the posts when Palace met Mansfield for the first post-war League match on 31 August 1946 . |
| 13 | Contact has been made with professional and educational institutions in many of the other Member States and CIOB members are now seeking recognition through the First General Directive in a number of countries . |
| 14 | This shift led to the return in 1892 of Keir Hardie as the first independent labour MP , and in 1898 of the first labour council in British electoral history . |
| 15 | Which is more than can be said of the successors of the first Labour government , elected just when the Elmhirsts arrived at the bankrupt farms and derelict buildings of Dartington . |
| 16 | That the bulk of the first new wave of Wirral 's heroin users obtained heroin from a single source might seem startling . |
| 17 | What is less easy to explain is that all of these words seem to have been created as phonetic imitations of the first meaningful sound uttered by many babies . |
| 18 | The character of the state had changed decisively from the coercive apparatus of monarchical power to the increasingly bureaucratic ( but determinedly laissez-faire ) administration of the first capitalist nation . |
| 19 | But they will also seek new approaches as they record events and the reporting of the first post-Thatcher election . |
| 20 | The factor which most powerfully predicts deletion is deletion of the first plural element in the string ; if a plural in the phrase is going to be realized by [ s ] , there is a strong tendency for it to be realized on this first element . |
| 21 | The Baldwin government which was returned to office in 1924 , after the collapse of the first Labour government , was committed to free trade , the gold standard and rationalization . |
| 22 | In the event the anticipated collapse of the first genetic engineering company amid a pile of bad debts did not come about . |
| 23 | A charity auction of the first limited edition Children In Need mug made at Alexandra — with the Pudsey logo and a Wedgwood limited edition mark — will also take place on the night . |
| 24 | Nin , which lies on a sheltered bay 20 km north of Zadar , was the seat of the first Croatian bishopric and was under the authority of the Patriarch of Aquileia , which indicates that Christianity came to the Croats from the west . |
| 25 | With the outbreak of the first Anglo-Dutch war ( 1652–4 ) , the treasurership became much more lucrative , its holder being remunerated partly on a poundage basis related to naval expenditure . |
| 26 | From the onset of the first Five-Year Plan , if not before , social equality has not only been sidetracked , but forsworn as the object of policy . |
| 27 | For example , a man with a strong attachment to his mother may marry and divorce a number of women in search of the first important relationship with his mother . |
| 28 | This involves completion of the first meiotic division , followed by ovulation , fertilisation , and the resumption of the second meiotic division . |
| 29 | The climax of this change of mood was the holding of the first competitive cat show , at Crystal Palace in London in 1871 . |
| 30 | They were far older than the Tuthanach , probably engendered by the association with the first post-Ice Age forest of the Mesolithic period , ten thousand years or so before the birth of Christ . |