Example sentences of "[prep] the first [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The allegations broke on Tuesday as Jackson was preparing for the first of two concerts in Bangkok , the first stop in the Asian swing of his Dangerous world tour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We will then travel by coach through the golds and reds of a New Hampshire autumn for the first of two nights at the Town and Country Inn , Gorham , north of Massachusetts . |
| 4 | This June Meeting asked for the bond balances to be called in so as the final land purchase could go ahead and , for the first of many times , it discussed the question of the use of caddies on a Sunday . |
| 5 | Now she waited , husbanding strength for the first of many visitors . |
| 6 | Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope . |
| 7 | During the first week of December 1986 , Donleavy came down to the Windfrey hotel at River Chase , Alabama , just south of Birmingham , for the first of several briefing sessions . |
| 8 | The University commissioned a new piece of music by Irish composer Elaine Agnew for the first of these concerts , which not only gave a young composer her first opportunity to write for a full orchestra but also provided an affectionate tribute to the former Chancellor 's memory . |
| 9 | As for the first of these concepts , we have seen that to a considerable extent in most schools the project achieved the objective of broadly based participation in devising curriculum-related library plans . |
| 10 | The series moves to Candlestick Park tonight for the first of three games on the West Coast . |
| 11 | Close pal Ince will lead the rookie side that Taylor plans to name late today for the first of three US Cup games . |
| 12 | David Vaughan Q.C. , Gerald Barling. , David Anderson and Stephen Swabey , solicitor , for the first to ninety-fourth applicants . |
| 13 | Concerning those chemical changes , which were of fantastic magnitude , taking place during the first of these periods , it is probably true to say that most established religions do now , perhaps reluctantly , accept as true the scientific theories governing the associated processes of evolution . |
| 14 | Dave Robson La Ronde Gulbenkian Studio Theatre , Newcastle ARTHUR Schnitzler 's Reigen is perhaps best known under its French title and as the first of two film versions , made by Max Ophuls in 1950 , is remembered as the quintessence of Viennese elegance . |
| 15 | There was a sharp crack as the first of several skins of heat-resistant material which coated the exterior of the pod shattered and then separated . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Two state-commissioned reports , described by Yeltsin in his Oct. 6 speech to the Supreme Soviet as the first in 70 years to contain " nothing but the truth " about the nation 's health and the state of the environment , were unveiled at a press conference on Oct. 7 . |
| 18 | Hannah went too , and the cameras followed Mrs Field 's forthright manner , allied to a distinct sense of humour and a stentorian voice , made a deep impression on the director and his crew — and on the television critics of the major newspapers , to judge by the reviews published the day after the first of many transmissions of Too Long a Winter . |
| 19 | Gandhi was killed on May 21st , the day after the first of three days of voting in the general election . |
| 20 | However , it is very likely that articulating a second language interferes with the processing of the first during simultaneous interpreting . |
| 21 | They are the authors of the first of five volumes which are expected to appear in quick succession in the next eighteen months and catalogue the complete work of Magritte , his paintings , collages , gouaches , drawings , objects and sculpture , but exclude his designs for advertising posters and other commercial activities . |
| 22 | TOTTENHAM keep faith with England youth international goalkeeper Ian Walker when they travel to Notts County tonight in search of the first of two wins which Peter Shreeves , their manager , believes will confirm their First Division status . |
| 23 | On Nov. 3 it had been reported that a US nuclear-powered submarine , the Topeka , had entered the Gulf in a move intended to underline US concern over the imminent delivery of the first of two Kilo class Russian diesel submarines to the Iranian port of Banda Abbas [ see p. 39122 ] , with a third said to be on option . |
| 24 | Certainly in the case of the first of those conditions the present appellants would find themselves in considerable difficulty . |
| 25 | The opening this month of the first of three exhibitions in memory of the great drawings connoisseur |
| 26 | In fact as of the first of this month , the number of real vacancies was a hundred and four now today I 've received another list of er so called vacancies from the Leicestershire South area . |
| 27 | Country Landowners Association president Lord De Ramsey became one of the first of British agriculture 's leaders to meet the new Minister . |
| 28 | In one of the first of these surveys ( of the fourth and fifth year curriculum in secondary schools ) in 1979 , the HMI noted that secondary teachers made wide use of ‘ heavily directed teaching , a preponderance of dictated or copied notes , and emphasis on the giving and recall of information , with little room or time for enquiry or explanation of applications ’ . |
| 29 | Of the first of these developments one of the earliest examples was the publication in Sweden from 1824 onwards of a list of the country 's consuls and vice-consuls . |
| 30 | The foregoing discussion of investment planning represents an essay in definition of the first of these conditions within the context of British capitalism ; I now turn to the second condition , and the relationship between the two . |