Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 2 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 3 | On 25th May , while the German army raced ruthlessly across Belgium and the inhabitants of England watched their skies for the first signs of airborne invasion , the scientists in the Oxford Pathology Department performed a crucial experiment . |
| 4 | The Zimbabwe Scientific Programme ( ZIMSCI ) project is designed to support teachers not trained in science and to provide a complete science package with low-cost kits for the first years of secondary school . |
| 5 | MAGAZINES are bidding for the first photos of five-day-old Louis , son of Princess Stephanie of Monaco , right . |
| 6 | Most Germans were in expectant but uneasy mood during the first months of 1940 . |
| 7 | It saw a slight recovery of demand for its products by the end of 1992 and during the first months of 1993 . |
| 8 | According to Western reports , during the first months of 1990 the Khmers Rouges increased their infiltration of fighters and supplies from their border camps into Cambodia proper . |
| 9 | During the first days of that Holy Week Mrs Abigail continued to believe that she could not endure a marriage that was a travesty , and that she could no longer endure life in Dynmouth . |
| 10 | Habituation and sensitization — often grouped together as non-associative learning — can be seen as the first steps towards full-fledged memory , and are universal properties of all organisms with nervous systems . |
| 11 | Solstice ( E5 6a ) uses 11 PRs ( yes 11 ! ) of varying degrees of security to climb the wall between the first pitches of Climatic and Soft Machine . |
| 12 | Between the first halves of 1972 and 1973 output rose by 7 per cent and industrial production by 10 per cent . |
| 13 | Worried parents have attended a special clinic to learn more about the first signs of meningococcal meningitis . |
| 14 | A decade ago , Norma Broude and Mary Garrad published Feminism and Art History : Questioning the Litany ( Icon , 1982 ) , one of the first anthologies of feminist art history in America . |
| 15 | Seventeen years later , then Flight Lieutenant Reif , he flew as one of the first navigators in 2 Squadron Canberras when that unit deployed to South Vietnam in April 1967 . |
| 16 | But one of the things , obvious at first , that , one of the first things about any kind of journalism apart from apart from , in your specialist journals and so on , is that they 're about newspapers are about people , so obviously get the people in and there 's a , a very good very good you 've got the person , you 've got you 've got you 've got someone in up at the top and saying something . |
| 17 | The disappearance of original traditional jewellery is one of the first signs of this unfortunate trend . |
| 18 | Typically , in one of the first debates about inner cities of the third Thatcher term , Nicholas Ridley , then Secretary of State for the Environment , justified his aggressively business led strategy , introducing more Urban Development Corporations : |
| 19 | Hospitality was one of the first duties of any bride ; at certain social levels it was a woman 's raison d'etre . |
| 20 | John Talbot was born in the same year as the Catholic Relief Act was passed and as a result was one of the first sons of Catholic gentlemen able to benefit from a solid Catholic education in Britain . |
| 21 | Tourist receipts are volatile , for holidays are usually one of the first casualties of reduced family expenditure during a recession . |
| 22 | In 1898 , on the Torres Straits expedition , he performed some of the first experiments in cross-cultural psychology and also developed the genealogical method as a key to the study of social organization . |
| 23 | Along with Argentina , Chile was one of the first countries in Latin America to experience union organisation and by 1970 , the labour movement had emerged as a strong and ideologically independent organisation . |
| 24 | Cos you just pull them out of the first brackets of each one . |
| 25 | The monument , in Dzerzhinsky Square opposite the Lubyanka , the headquarters of the State Security Committee ( KGB ) , consisted simply of a granite boulder brought from the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea , site of one of the first camps for political prisoners established under Soviet rule . |
| 26 | One of the first references to this approach in the management literature was made by the American academic Peter Vaill ( 1982 ) . |
| 27 | One of the first victims of teenage burn-out , she is now confronted with the world of graphite power play wherein the women now hit the ball harder than the men did 30 years ago with the old wooden rackets . |
| 28 | At the end of the war Lloyd George promised ‘ homes fit for heroes ’ , and one of the first pieces of postwar legislation was a Housing Act that provided government subsidies to local authorities to build houses for the working classes . |
| 29 | The Soviets of Nghe-Tinh are , obviously , one of the first landmarks of Vietnamese communism . |
| 30 | As we shall see in Chapter 4 , one of the first results of these ideas was to transform the social survey . |