Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun sg] under [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Observers believed that the ruling opened the way for the first prosecution under the UK War Crimes Act approved in May 1991 [ see p. 38219 ] , and that 30 members of a former Lithuanian police battalion living in the UK could soon be charged with the killing of thousands of civilians and Jews in eastern Europe during the Second World War . |
| 2 | American soldiers will serve for the first time under a non-American chief , a Turk . |
| 3 | That weekend had been more strained than usual because Frances Shand Kydd — Earl Spencer 's former wife , and mother of his four children — was for the first time under the same roof as Raine . |
| 4 | The CNT — not for the first time under the Republic — was driven virtually underground and most of the UGT executive imprisoned . |
| 5 | Soviet military inspectors , acting for the first time under the CFE Treaty , completed inspections of French and UK military sites ( the latter in Germany ) on Sept. 20 and 21 [ for Soviet inspections under INF treaty see p. 38217 ] . |
| 6 | Labour Party members had taken part in government for the first time under the wartime coalition of Lloyd George and with the support of the party 's National Executive Committee . |
| 7 | In June 1984 , small businesses were also required to provide security for the first time under the scheme , which obviously deterred many potential entrepreneurs and damaged the usefulness of the scheme . |
| 8 | The accumulated rights , earned on the basis of Peru 's performance under its IMF-monitored adjustment programme , would then be encashed as the first disbursement under a successor IMF-supported programme . |
| 9 | In 1886 Douglas Fox and James Brunlees [ q.v. ] were knighted on completion of the first tunnel under the Mersey which , along with the railway linking Birkenhead with Liverpool , they had jointly engineered . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Following Taylor v Taylor [ 1938 ] KB 320 , the year in question was that from the first payment under the lease , and given that four such payments had already been made , the right to deduct tax was lost . |
| 12 | ‘ In the first paddock under the gum trees . |