Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why on earth did you want old Puddephat 's opinion in the first place ? ’ he asked . |
| 2 | TUESDAY 'S play in the first round singles events having been rained off were played yesterday in the 31st Dun Laoghire Bowling tournament in Dublin . |
| 3 | O'Hara knocked on Meredith 's door during the first interval . |
| 4 | By the time you read this , Paul will have landed a Jumbo Jet — with a flight simulator , of course — completed a rigorous army assault course and faced challenging questions and puzzles in the popular programme 's studio in the first round of the contest . |
| 5 | Arsenal 's mastery of the First Division was already making them the best-loved , best-hated club . |
| 6 | And he notices his lover 's leg for the first time since the last time . |
| 7 | When Hungary 's ruler after the first world war , Admiral Horthy , defeated an attempt by Zita and Karl to regain their throne , most Hungarians were not sorry . |
| 8 | Jefferson 's purpose in the First Amendment was to stop all future American lawmakers from making it a crime for people to criticise their own government . |
| 9 | They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather . |
| 10 | Cards on the table , Gavrilov 's reading of the first movement of the Seventh Sonata is one of the finest I 've heard — very nearly as fine as Pollini 's ( DG ) . |
| 11 | In 1915 he exhibited six works in the ‘ invited to show ’ non-members ' section of the first Vorticist exhibition , held at the Doré Galleries in London . |
| 12 | The following quotation comes from Engels ' Preface to the first ( 1884 ) edition of The Origin of the Family , which was a kind of rewrite , in precis , of Morgan 's Ancient Society ( 1877 ) : |
| 13 | The art of a good press release is to excite the editor 's interest with the first sentence . |
| 14 | Lenin was very conscious of Marx 's warning that each war contains within it the seeds of a fresh war , an observation amply born out by the conflicts between France and Prussia-Germany in Marx 's lifetime and in Lenin 's time by the First World War . |
| 15 | Poor umpiring decisions against Smith , Hick and Salisbury , all adjudged lbw to balls drifting down the leg side , did not help England 's cause in the first innings . |
| 16 | ENGLAND 'S defeat in the first Cornhill Test has left them with even more problems than those produced by last winter 's disastrous tour of India . |
| 17 | Gooch was yesterday confirmed as skipper for the rest of Ashes series despite England 's defeat in the first Test . |
| 18 | BRADFORD and former Middlesbrough rider Gary Havelock has been chosen as England 's captain for the first Test of the new season against Australia . |
| 19 | The HSE 's review of the first year of COSHH concluded that most firms were aware of COSHH and had tried to comply with the regulations , though many had not gone beyond the collection of information about hazards . |
| 20 | I liked Thomson 's account of the First Symphony , too . |
| 21 | The first five notes of Clemens 's bass are indeed those of the plainsong eighth-tone Magnificat , but his superius is identical with that of Sermisy 's ‘ C'est une dure despartie ’ except that it does not follow Sermisy 's repeat of the first two phrases and does repeat his last phrase . |
| 22 | Gloria came to do Ruth 's hair on the first Monday of every month . |
| 23 | The immediate prelude to the revolution was Russia 's involvement in the First World War . |
| 24 | It was only the turmoil unleashed by Russia 's involvement in the First World War , the breakdown of imperial authority , of the army , and of the economy , which gave them their chance . |
| 25 | The controversy over the pre-war period revolves around five central questions : the likelihood of renewed rebellion by the peasantry ; the dynamics of working-class protest ; the prospects for the consolidation of the Empire 's middle classes into a formidable social and political force ; the solidity of the tsarist forces of repression ; and the effect of Russia 's entry into the First World War upon socio-political conditions in the Empire . |
| 26 | It was one of revolution and civil war , following on from Russia 's collapse during the First World War . |
| 27 | ‘ The Director has decided that in the light of the learned judge 's ruling in the first trial , the second trial should not proceed because there is no longer a realistic prospect of convictions , ’ the CPS anounced yesterday . |
| 28 | The judge 's ruling in the first case was therefore correct . |
| 29 | WOLVES winger Robbie Dennison has been recalled to Northern Ireland 's squad for the first time in a year . |
| 30 | Defender Tony Mowbray could return to Celtic 's side for the first time in ten weeks and silence speculation that manager Liam Brady is willing to sell the player . |