Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun prp] in the first " in BNC.
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1 | Occhetto , leader of the PCI since 1988 , narrowly failed to secure the necessary 274 votes for election as secretary of the PDS in the first round of voting by the new party 's national council on Feb. 4 , mainly due to the absence of 132 members . |
2 | From it Gregory learnt about the activities of the Franks in the first decades of the fifth century , including their involvement in the civil wars which followed the usurpation by Constantine III . |
3 | We have done well in our provincial fixtures , with notable exceptions against the Maoris in the first half and in the defeat by Otago . |
4 | Few literary sources are more revealing of aristocratic culture than the Gesta Consulum Andegavorum and its off shoot the Gesta Ambaziensium Dominorum , produced in the Touraine in the first six decades of the twelfth century , for the pleasure and edification of the counts of Anjou and their castellans , the lords of Amboise . |
5 | If a Bill is passed by the Commons in two successive sessions having been rejected by the Lords , it can be presented for the Royal Assent provided that one year has elapsed between the date of its second reading in the Commons in the first session and the date of its passing by the Commons in the second session . |
6 | Such a system , based on social class and the old school tie , had never become quite so entrenched across the Atlantic in the first place , and had largely broken down by the end of the 1950s . |
7 | HULL face local rivals Hull KR at the Boulevard in the first round of the John Smiths Yorkshire Cup on Sunday week . |