Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomorrow he delivers a lecture Beyond the Rhetoric : a cool look at architectural judgement as the first in a series by new professors at Leeds Polytechnic . |
| 2 | Ironically his own tour of New Zealand with Ireland 12 months ago came to an abrupt end when he sustained a broken jaw in the first of two internationals . |
| 3 | Oakes is going for Ballasarly in the two thirty five Cheltenham , Leslie 's going for Leotard that 's the top weight in the first at one twenty five er oh in the second . |
| 4 | It will be the 50th Irish match at this venue since the first in 1868 . |
| 5 | Peculiar day for the first of June , is n't it ? |
| 6 | I worked in the communities that experienced the most painful impact of the first of the Government 's recessions in the 1980s . |
| 7 | The opening this month of the first of three exhibitions in memory of the great drawings connoisseur |
| 8 | Everybody talks about the five he had at the end and the last hole , but he missed less than a two-foot putt on the first in the first round . |
| 9 | The next sizeable raid occurred on 5 March , and on this occasion 7/JG 26 was to enjoy some reinforcement for the first of two occasions . |
| 10 | The present chapter gives further consideration to the first of these apparent inconsistencies . |
| 11 | The Lewisian thing about the first of his space stories is precisely its blend of literary originality and religious truth ; it is not ‘ theology ’ dressed up as ‘ literature ’ ; rather it makes its best literary effects when it is at its most religious because the religious matter is what most engages the author 's imagination . |
| 12 | Plans and sections ( from an end-on junction with the Moat Hall Railway at Little Hanwood to the Bishop 's Castle Railway near Lydham by an east-facing junction from the first at Pontesbury to join the proposed Chirbury and Minsterley line at Minsterley and continue also northwards to Asterley ) . |
| 13 | T P A will pay the the large part on the first of September got that . |
| 14 | The description given seems to fit the previous attack on the first of June , when a 20 year old student was raped in the toilets in Magdalen Street . |
| 15 | Leonard was a natural choice for the first of the new series , both in bearing and background he represented , not merely McGill , but Canada itself ; he was accordingly approached . |
| 16 | Wilkinson and Bates , with equal determination to achieve as many computer points as possible , won through to face each other in the first of two finals encounters . |
| 17 | For the married men all service from the first of April nineteen seventy two counts erm for family benefits . |
| 18 | The second half was played at just as frantic pace as the first with both sides looking dangerous on the attack , but Abingdon looking more solid in defence . |
| 19 | LIFESPAN will automatically use the last user of the current list as the first for the next list . |
| 20 | LIFESPAN will automatically use the last DC of the current list as the first for the next list . |
| 21 | That case involved a solicitor who was a salaried partner in the first of the firms involved in the case and an employee in sole charge of a branch office of the other firm giving undertakings to a bank to pay over certain funds which were shortly due to come under his firm 's control to the credit of individuals who were seeking loans from that bank , the undertakings being accepted as security for the loans . |
| 22 | I believe that an important part of the first of the new clauses tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) is the independence of interpreters . |
| 23 | He was lying on the large double bed with the first of the ice-packs over one side of his face . |
| 24 | They have not yet accepted the defeat that is the essential component of the first of the 12 steps . |
| 25 | The bravest man of the week has to be grand prix driver Martin Donnelly … he was back in a formula one car for the first since a near fatal crash in Spain … |
| 26 | Senior international Vicki Horner ( Newburn ) and Esso England youth squad member Laura Jackson ( Derwentside ) defend two titles in one event at the first of this year 's six Northumberland and Durham championship galas at Bishop Auckland on Saturday ( 2 and 5.45pm ) when there are 20 titles up for grabs . |
| 27 | A probable example of the first of these man-made events was a primitive effort at cooperation to establish a right to exclusive use of an area by an individual or family . |
| 28 | The great strength of the collection is the archaeological components unglazed stoneware from the first to the ninth century . |
| 29 | The option always lists the SPRs in descending numerical order of identifier , presenting the highest SPR identifier in the specified range as the first in the list . |
| 30 | The option always lists the SSRs in descending numerical order of identifier , presenting the highest SSR identifier in the specified range as the first in the list . |