Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The national curriculum proposals form the first part of the Education Reform Bill , which also contains proposals in relation to open enrolments , financial delegation to schools , the establishment of grant maintained schools and various proposals for higher education . |
| 2 | In this model , modelling land-use and transportation policies represents the first stage of this air quality simulation system ( Gross , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | The following study attempts to avoid the first problem by increasing the data available for the calculation of ROC curves and to address the second problem by using a much more varied selection of stimuli . |
| 4 | Opposition parties boycotted the first day of the budget session of the Lok Sabha on Feb. 21 , and two state governors were replaced earlier in the month , in connection with the decision to impose president 's rule in Tamil Nadu in late January [ see p. 37964 ] . |
| 5 | International law experts say the first reason is the strongest and the last the weakest . |
| 6 | Warner Bros release the first picture disc album — ‘ Airconditioning ’ by Curved Air . |
| 7 | All of you in our Service teams create the first impression after the contract has been signed . |
| 8 | That , it seemed , would be the kind of icon I needed , a truly Pacific emblem — that of South Sea island children beginning the first learning of the world 's new day , and doing so by using California-invented high-technology packaged , sold and marketed by the Japanese . |
| 9 | The history unfolds with the full scale introduction of motor vehicles following the First World War and the gradual take over of all delivery services . |
| 10 | All three parties to the Bosnia talks attended the first meeting since the current round began two weeks ago and the Bosnian president , Alija Izetbegovic , said he would sign key documents in a peace package . |
| 11 | Although teething troubles dogged the first week of pedestrianisation in Darlington traders and shoppers generally welcomed the scheme . |
| 12 | On April 9 , relief agencies undertook the first stage of an operation to assist Kurdish refugees inside Turkey , amidst allegations by Turkish officials that the Turkish Red Crescent had borne the brunt of the relief effort . |
| 13 | Supported by an opinion poll revealing extensive support among voters for extra resources for education , union leaders said the first phase of a prolonged press advertising campaign , launched in national newspapers today , would cost £500,000 . |
| 14 | The official stayed and , in later years , coined the best metaphor for the Wilson style : Harold as the great player of Space Invaders taking the first blip to cross the screen whether it was important or not . |
| 15 | This year 's Republican Party primary elections mark the first time that the controversies of the past three years over the National Endowment for the Arts , the federal agency charged with arts support , have entered the realm of American presidential politics . |
| 16 | I desire you will send by y bearer 2 quarts of Sugar Hotspur peas to set the first crop , & half a peck of Windsor Beans , & pray bring y Hammer with you w . |
| 17 | EC monitors reported the first use of Soviet-made ground to ground missiles on Dec. 30 south of Zagreb . |
| 18 | In 1959 , three years after he applied for German papers under his own name at the German embassy , he fled to Paraguay as the Frankfurt authorities issued the first warrant for his arrest . |