Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks . |
| 2 | and Jeremy Woolf for the taxpayers at the first hearing . |
| 3 | Appearances : Tudor Owen for the officers in the first case , Edmund Lawson QC and Michael Egan for Mr Cherry , all instructed by Russell Jones & Walker ; Ann Goddard QC with Nicholas Ainley in the first case , and with Oliver Sells in the Cherry case , all instructed by the DPP ; James Holdsworth instructed by the Treasury Solicitor for both magistrates . |
| 4 | Bukharin and his associates used Rosa and Ernst Meyer 's hotel room in Moscow for meetings to discuss the mounting struggle inside the Bolshevik Party , meetings at which they ridiculed the ever higher figures being propounded for the drafts of the First Five Year Plan . |
| 5 | This is not necessarily as great as the increase in the liabilities of the target company related to the breach of warranty , particularly if the purchaser has only paid a nominal price for the shares in the first place . |
| 6 | WE ALL , I reckon , feel a nostalgia for the days before the First World War when we read that travel was simpler and you could go down to Victoria and light out for the Continent without bothering about a passport . |
| 7 | Neither manager would give a clue as to his team , or discuss in depth a match which could see the Republic qualify for the finals for the first time . |
| 8 | Thus , for the purposes of the first three categories , sexual intercourse is defined gender neutrally to include penetration of the vagina or anus by any part of the body or by an object , introduction of the penis into the mouth and cunnilingus as well as the continuation of any such intercourse . |
| 9 | After two postal rounds , ten teams survived to compete in the finals for the Cup and the Plate ( the competition for the runners-up in the first round ) . |
| 10 | He advised the ladies to walk towards the town and wait for the men at the first hotel . |
| 11 | The second round of the legislative elections on Nov. 15 confirmed the victory of the Democratic Labour Party ( DLP ) , the former Communist Party led by Algirdas Brazauskas , over the ruling Sajudis alliance [ for the results of the first round in October and background information see p. 39157 ] . |
| 12 | Matters came to a head in a break during the sessions for the first LP . |
| 13 | Although the Second Duma saw a small increase in the number of right-wing deputies , more striking was the decline in the number of Kadet deputies and the advance of the extreme Left , including Social Democrats and SRs who had decided to abandon the electoral boycott they had staged during the elections to the First Duma . |
| 14 | But she 's now making another name for herself as the brains behind the first horse register in the country . |
| 15 | They see the ‘ cunning ’ of the serpent in the Garden of Eden as the wiles of the first intellectual ( probably a theologian ) . |
| 16 | Also included are relevant background documents such as the recommendations of the first book , Many Voices , One World , the International Principles of Professional Ethics in Journalism and excerpts from An Information and Communication Policy for Africa . |
| 17 | These three movements tackle different phenomena , although there is a striking similarity between the philosophies of the first two . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , he was wrong about the origins of the First and Second World Wars , ’ roared back the teacher , who later gave his name as Mr Nigel Varley . |
| 19 | Ginnie was to write about the wonders of the First Aid Group and George about his beloved badgers . |
| 20 | With that remark I took my leave and made my way through the orchard and onto the road leading to Brigade H.Q That evening as I lay in my trench I thought about the events of the first seven days in Normandy . |
| 21 | ‘ Through the offices on the first floor . ’ |
| 22 | At Europe 's largest indoor shopping centre , the MetroCentre , Gateshead , Tyne and Wear , more than 50,000 passed through the doors in the first hour , the first of 130,000 during the day . |
| 23 | ‘ Gary and I had said ‘ no more ’ after the problems with the first two but it turned out to be the real turning point for me . |
| 24 | After the bruisings of the first 100 days , the president should have a shrewd idea which issues he should fight for , and which he should cheerfully surrender as lost . |
| 25 | In the event , Israel walked out of the talks on the first day in protest at the presence of the head of the Palestinian delegation , Mohammed Hallaj , director of the Washington-based Centre for Policy Analysis on Palestine and a former member of the Palestine National Council ( PNC — the Palestinian " parliament-in-exile " ) . |
| 26 | From the earlier analysis , the effect of the taxes via the first parenthetical term on the right-hand side of /8–57' ) depends on where we have used ( 8–48 ) and ( 8–49 ) . |
| 27 | Details of the transactions for the first month are given below . |
| 28 | Details of the transactions for the first month are given below . |
| 29 | It suggested that second marriages would substantially infringe the rights of inheritance of the members of the first family . |
| 30 | Environmental engineer Andrew Olleveant , who was one of the members of the first group , had a number of key issues to cover during his trip to Russia . |