Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the first [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomorrow he delivers a lecture Beyond the Rhetoric : a cool look at architectural judgement as the first in a series by new professors at Leeds Polytechnic . |
| 2 | The bravest man of the week has to be grand prix driver Martin Donnelly … he was back in a formula one car for the first since a near fatal crash in Spain … |
| 3 | As a woman 's teenage children leave home , she may interpret the loss of the first as a welcome freedom . |
| 4 | Axil also introduced an Open Look-based fax/modem package called AxilEnvoy as the first in a series of software products to provide added functionality such as voice mail , conversation record/playback , multimedia document support , security , image filtering and editing and optical character reading . |
| 5 | During the years that the Uganda syllabus panels were meeting , the Lake Victoria Hotel , Entebbe was chosen as the venue for the first in a series of international workshops which heralded a new approach to curriculum development , a new dimension for pan-African co-operation and whose eventual product , the Entebbe Mathematics , proved to be possibly the most influential curriculum project yet to be launched in English — speaking Africa . |
| 6 | Rory Gallagher has decided to put the boot into the bootleggers with the first in a series of live concert recordings . |
| 7 | He said no bread would be baked this Sunday in the first of a series of one-day strikes if the 9,000 workers who produce nearly 80 per cent of loaves throw out the deal . |
| 8 | Now we 're off to America and the desert of southern California for the first of a four part series featuring the RAF 's parachute display team — the Falcons . |
| 9 | Articles B and N define the Treaty as the first of a series , the beginning of a process . |
| 10 | Six people ( five Iraqis and a Jordanian ) were on May 19 sentenced by a martial law tribunal to prison terms of up to 15 years , having been convicted of collaboration with the Iraqi occupation forces in the first of a series of war trials [ see p. 38166 ] . |
| 11 | Returned Volunteer Action — A grant of £10,737 was approved towards the core costs of RVA as the first of a three year commitment . |
| 12 | That meeting , which could occur as early as two weeks ' time , will then declare at least a three-month gap in meetings to fulfil the Unionist precondition for talks and clear the way for the first of a three-stage set of inter-party and inter-government negotiations to prepare a new British-Irish Agreement . |
| 13 | Now with summer well and truly upon us , it 's time for the first in a new series looking at some of the region 's loveliest gardens . |
| 14 | This is the balance of the first of a three year commitment of £10,000 per annum. £4,645 of the first payment was allocated in 1991-92 . |