Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came at the end of a pretty miserable week for the Seasiders after their failure to reach the first round of the Cup Winners ' Cup in Cyprus . |
| 2 | SENIOR Tories in Cheltenham were trying yesterday to persuade Mr John Taylor to remain as their prospective parliamentary candidate after his failure to become the first black Tory MP . |
| 3 | A less glamorous version of its origin sees the first Manx cat as nothing more than a Manx sailor 's pet — a curiosity brought home after travels to the Orient . |
| 4 | Motorola Inc has put Intel Corp on the spot with its decision to price the first iterations of the PowerPC chip at $280 each for the 50MHz 601 and $374 each for the 66MHz 601 in quantities of 20,000 or more , since these are about half the prices Intel had pencilled in for its Pentium chips ( CI No 2,156 ) . |
| 5 | The younger Herschel had travelled to the Cape with his telescope to undertake the first survey of the southern skies with a first-class instrument , and his discoveries of nebulae were already causing a stir in the astronomical community . |
| 6 | If you fall into this category you will find Jane Lucas ' article on page 14 of interest , and for specific help with your jumping see the first of Jane Wallace 's super new series on cross country jumping on page 36 . |
| 7 | My third point is coming back to Chairman your point about the paragraph , the criterion paragraph of thirty three of P P G three , and the settlement in my view fails the first the first test , since the very city which it is supposed to relieve says that the need can be met , and I quote , within and on the edge of the urban area and villages . |
| 8 | Europe was first to industrialise and thereby throw up the indigent urban proletariat , who in their turn founded the first labour organisations which spawned Marxism and fascism , both truly European ideologies . |
| 9 | Although the Democrats increased their share of the vote , the party 's leader Janine Haines failed in her bid to become the first candidate from a minor party since 1966 to win a seat in the 148-seat House of Representatives . |
| 10 | The structure also contrasts with Fab-antigen complexes , in which all contacts with antigen are mediated by the variable regions of the antibody , and to our knowledge provides the first details of interaction of the constant regions of Fab with another protein . |
| 11 | We 've got , sorry , at what point do the first bits go ? |
| 12 | One or two sentences at your discretion to introduce the first prize winners who will go on to compete in the national finals in London on 16 March 1991 at the Natural History Museum . |