Example sentences of "[noun] who [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Roll of Honour , dedicated to the men of Patrington who served in the First World War , stands in the middle of the village . |
| 2 | The results represented a success for the Moderates and for two parties who exceeded for the first time the statutory 4 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation — the Christian Democrats ( whose only previous representation had been in 1985-88 when one of the Centre party 's seats was allocated to Christian Democrat in an electoral pact ) , and the New Democracy Party . |
| 3 | The distinction here is between two very distinct schools of harpsichord-making ; a tradition carried on by native craftsmen who flourished during the first 25 years of the 18th century and an imported tradition initiated by Hermann Tabel that displaced its native rival as effectively as a cuckoo might take charge in a sparrow 's nest . |
| 4 | Even if the insurance market allows that to continue to the same extent , it will be small compensation to the director who abdicated in the first place an increasing responsibility to him or herself to ensure that necessary controls and preventive measure were in place to prevent a risk turning into a reality . |
| 5 | Investigators who opt for the first solution may seek out variable syntactic elements where meaning variation does not constitute a serious problem ; this is the general approach taken by Cheshire . |
| 6 | The one on the north wall is for the men of the cavalry regiments from the Krems area who fell in the First World War . |
| 7 | Many of the people who come under the first proposal would be paying back loans for educational purposes . |
| 8 | A Liverpool City Council spokesman said : ‘ It is our understanding that the cenotaph is a remembrance of people who died in the first and second world wars . ’ |
| 9 | We 're talking about the people who died in the first world war . |
| 10 | The people who emigrated in the first stage were mainly farming families from the state of Gujerat ( see map ) and craft-workers from Punjab , while those who came directly to Britain in the 1950s and 60s were mainly farming families from Gujerat and the Indian and Pakistani areas of Punjab . |
| 11 | It was not the Jerusalem leaders who agreed to the first widespread dissemination of the Word . |
| 12 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 13 | Some pupils who failed on the first occasion might subsequently succeed because of increasing insight into a concept or because a skill has been practised . |
| 14 | As it happened , of the 5381 children who arrived in the first six months of 1939 , only 113 re-emigrated , and most of those went to join their parents who had escaped Germany by other routes . |
| 15 | However in all fairness to the Halling unit a number of those older men who fought in the first war wore medals for gallantry , and were to show us youngsters that they had lost none of their skills with a rifle . |
| 16 | Like tourists who visit for the first time , it seemed our resident rabbits sensed the tranquil harmony that is the essence of this tiny unspoilt paradise in the Mediterranean . |
| 17 | DARLINGTON 'S John Bradley , a student at Bath University , is among the 13 members of the England senior squad who compete in the first World Cup final in Majorca this weekend after qualifying through the recent Cup meets in Europe . |
| 18 | There was also a great deal of indignation among ordinary British citizens who discovered for the first time after the massacre in Timişoara that Romania was ruled by a brutal tyrant who enjoyed the privileges of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath . |
| 19 | Yes , they 've got a week or two to get it together and send it in , but we know from what people have pledged that that 's what we can expect at least , and that 's from over a thousand cyclists ranging from , I saw one child in a seat behind their parents on a bike , up to an eighty nine year old lady from Brill who cycled for the first time in years and really enjoyed it . |
| 20 | The first on the village green is in the style of an Eleanor Cross , and dedicated to men from the estate who died during the First World War . |