Example sentences of "[adj] of the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I mean you may well have seen on the television , some of the first film of some of the camps , that the first sort of rioting was about water . |
| 2 | As a result of this feedback , we are now considering adding extra modules to the original specifications for some of the first phase of general SVQs . |
| 3 | As we drive from mine to exhausted mine I chat with some of the first group about doing geology . |
| 4 | Increasingly , books for school use are targeting skills and concepts as well as content , though very few of the first wave of National Curriculum history titles , hurriedly rushed out by publishers , were in fact written after the final reports for history had been issued . |
| 5 | The 1949 plan , that of the first year of the two year plan , was fulfilled by industry as a whole by 103 per cent . |
| 6 | In some words , we can observe a type of stress that is weaker than primary stress but stronger than that of the first syllable of ‘ around ’ , for example in the first syllables of the words ‘ photographic ’ , ‘ anthropology ’ . |
| 7 | Even allowing for a slight predominance of boys over girls among children , this still suggests that around two-thirds of the first generation of mill workers were female . |
| 8 | Now denoting the nominal demand for money by MD , we can write in functional form : unc A simplified version of this function can be obtained by using real national income ( Y ) as an indicator of total wealth and by assuming that h is constant and that the function is homogeneous of the first degree in P. We can then write the real demand for money as : unc Monetarists generally believe the demand for money to be fairly unresponsive to interest rate changes ( and this is supported by empirical evidence ) . |
| 9 | Humphrey Lyttelton recounts : ‘ We brought along with us a strong contingent from Camberwell Art School , and John Minton , now recognised as a distinguished painter , was among the most formidable and dangerous of the first school of dancers . ’ |
| 10 | I would agree entirely with all of the first part of your discourse Mr Chairman , |
| 11 | The track index will take up part or all of the first track on each cylinder . |
| 12 | Irrigation was improved , including the building in 1902 of the first dam at Aswan , while the economy was pushed ever more towards the monocrop culture of cotton , primarily for export to British textile mills in Lancashire . |
| 13 | This is partly because of the great competition brought about by the flood of new records over the past two years which has prompted the major record companies to reissue at mid-price ( and sometimes in the bargain range ) many of the first generation of digital records made in the early 1980s . |
| 14 | By 1927–8 many of the first generation of intellectuals had already left , disillusioned by increasingly sectarian politics and rigorously disciplined organisational structures . |
| 15 | These men supplied many of the first generation of Russian permanent representatives in western Europe : of the twelve of these accredited in the first decade of the eighteenth century five had been members of the group of students sent to Venice in 1697 . |
| 16 | I conclude that Ford 's ‘ critical act ’ was indeed ( by and large , always by and large ) the most important of the first half of this century , and that it is , moreover , irreversible . |
| 17 | REMEMBRANCE was one of the first Film on Four projects . |
| 18 | He read English at Cambridge — ‘ actually I spent most of the time reading opera ’ and went on to become one of the first crop of the Arts Council 's pioneering Arts Administration course , which was ‘ a bit Heath Robinsonish then , but still a wonderful grounding ’ . |
| 19 | This welcome volume , edited as was Volume II by Sheriff Irvine Smith , completes the project of the Stair Society of publishing a selection of the Justiciary Cases 1624–50 , the inception of which was signalised by the publication in 1953 of the first volume under the editorship of Sheriff Stair A. Gillon . |
| 20 | For example , the Abbe de l'Epee , founder of the first public school for the deaf in Paris in 1755 , was a manualist , while Samuel Heinicke , founder in 1778 of the first school in Germany of a similar type , was an oralist . |
| 21 | ‘ And , as Bill seems to have done a runner , is it not down to ourselves , as the very last of the First Hierarchy of Hell , to aid our evil master in his plan to unleash the forces of darkness upon this planet ? ’ |
| 22 | It was just around this stage that I became aware of the first footman beside me , who whispered : ‘ Miss Kenton would like a word with you , sir . |
| 23 | She had spent most of the first hour of the journey deep in conversation with the Doctor , who had gone to the flight deck to check up on Sheldukher . |
| 24 | The O'Neils occupied most of the first row of the circle . |
| 25 | The won the tournament in 1959 , but was n't able to compete in 1960 due to a serious knee infection that kept him out of action for most of the first half of the season . |
| 26 | He decorated most of the first half of the 700-page manuscript himself , leaving much of the rest to assistants of lesser ability . |
| 27 | Larne spent most of the first half on the rack , but took a shock lead three minutes from the break when Tom McCourt grabbed his 22nd goal of the season . |
| 28 | The brew was so potent that several journalists , who had planned to be ‘ upcountry ’ watching the metal fly , instead spent most of the first day of the election in bed . |
| 29 | For most of the first week of February high pressure was centred to the southeast or south of Scotland giving a generally cloudy , mild , southwesterly flow over the country , although the month started with a sharp frost in central and southern areas . |
| 30 | I missed most of the first war with him actually . |