Example sentences of "[adj] to the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also spoke to the chief investigator of the Senate committee , who said that he had taken a large amount of information about this to the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington , but the British government had hampered any further investigation . |
| 2 | ‘ Sam Velerisms ’ , as they were called , which became the basis for ‘ Sam Wellerisms ’ , were famous in the period 1831–6 , just prior to the first publication of The Pickwick Papers . |
| 3 | Very few early umbrellas survive but the Museums have about three dateable to the first half of the 19th century . |
| 4 | I had imagined that if the Secretary of State was interested in doing his job properly he would have said to us , ’ Mr. Stoner 's opinion will be made available to the first meeting of the Select Committee . ’ |
| 5 | The view that the Lord 's Day is essentially the Jewish Sabbath — a ‘ taboo ’ day — transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week found expression from time to time in medieval law and theology . |
| 6 | At this point Schoenberg was close to the first ideal-type of modernist practice in his accentuation of contingency . |
| 7 | William Booth , a Methodist local preacher , began evangelical and rescue work in the East End of London in 1865 , and that eventually led , in 1878 to the first formation of the Salvation Army , with himself as the General in charge . |