Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As right-wing supporters , many appearing in public for the first time in almost three years , welcomed their liberators with monarchist flags and fascist salutes , many other Spaniards faced a terrifying future : so terrifying , indeed , that to some suicide was preferable . |
| 2 | Our President , Lady Braithwaite , appearing in public for the first time in her new role , was warmly greeted , and during the afternoon she drew the first lucky winners of our 200 Club , a most important new venture to raise badly needed funds for the Society . |
| 3 | The plan is for the theatre to open in 1993 with the first season of Shakespeare plays . |
| 4 | The pension can be drawn in full for the first eight weeks in hospital , after which your parent will be notified that it will be reduced by a few pounds ( for the exact amount of the reduction see the current issue of leaflet NI9 ) . |
| 5 | In 1785 the directors of the Bank of San Carlos ( founded in 1782 as the first national bank of Spain and in itself an indication of a new spirit ) could report in glowing terms . |
| 6 | His tireless work for the cause of Albanian nationalism was rewarded in 1913 with the first of two enquiries on the point of whether he would be prepared to accept the throne of Albania , if it was formally offered to him . |
| 7 | The beachfront villa in Beirut where Coleman lived in 1985 during the first DIA undercover assignment . |
| 8 | There is no further mention of Ambrosia in the records , and possibly she is to be identified with the ‘ Dame Ambroise de Saint-Joire ’ named in 1288 among the first entrants to the Carthusian nunnery of Melan ( Haute-Savoie ) founded in 1282 by Beatrice de Faucigny . |
| 9 | By the time that Key Stage 4 of history is introduced in 1994 with the first reported assessment in 1996 there is the possibility that its position as one of the main elements providing balance and breadth will be undermined by lack of an adequate number of hours for teaching the subject . |
| 10 | The present tax was introduced in 1965 in the first Budget of the Labour government elected in 1964 . |
| 11 | By 1882 , Edison 's system of generating power in a central power station , changed industrial methods almost as much as steam had brought about the industrial revolution , and by 1885 the first internal combustion driven machine had appeared , to be followed in 1894 by the first recognisable motorcar . |
| 12 | In that same year , motor-taxis appeared in London , to be followed in 1905 by the first motor-buses being tried in London . |
| 13 | On a collision course are Onslow 's — who started the fleet sailing in 1985 with the first specialised sale — and Christie 's South Kensington . |
| 14 | Use of animals in experiments in the UK increased in 1991 for the first time in 15 years . |
| 15 | Questions about shareholdings were put in 1987 for the first time , at the request of the Treasury , anxious to confirm and expand the conclusions of previous surveys by market research groups . |
| 16 | For Arabic names , and other names with prefixes , it was found that there were inconsistencies in indexing : Al-Haddad appeared correctly in one instance , and on another occasion as Haddad ; El-Batroukh appeared in full in the first reference , then as Batroukh , and also as Batrouk . |
| 17 | For Arabic names , and other names with prefixes , it was found that there were inconsistencies in indexing : Al-Haddad appeared as Al-Haddad , and on another occasion as Haddad ; El-Batroukh appeared in full in the first reference , then as Batroukh , and also as Batrouk . |
| 18 | Additionally , a further ‘ outside ’ course is taken in each of the first two years . |
| 19 | At first Johnson was contrite and ashamed , ‘ I am heart-broken , ’ he said in one of the first press reports ‘ I am a disgrace to myself and my country . |
| 20 | The Commission published a report on competition policy on June 24 , 1991 , in which it said that the number of intra-EC mergers among larger companies had in 1990 for the first time exceeded that of purely national mergers . |
| 21 | Elected in 1841 to the first legislative assembly of Upper and Lower Canada as an independent representing Huron , he served five years before resigning in 1846 to become superintendent of the Lachine canal and publish his Recollections of the American War , 1812–1814 . |
| 22 | In 1914 Pourpe enlisted and was killed in one of the first air battles . |
| 23 | It was first published in 1650 in the first edition of dances collected by John Playford and would certainly have been danced at the court of King Charles II . |
| 24 | Her monograph , The Metabolism of Fat , published in 1943 as the first of Methuen 's monographs in biochemistry , summarized her views on the field , in which she was by then a recognized authority . |