Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the first [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Ethel , with her good looks , height and dancing standards , was naturally one of the first to be sent across .
2 However , the input signals must be extremely small for the first of these two equations to apply with constant parameters .
3 The position will be a little clearer after the first of the two individual time trials around Luxembourg on Monday 13 July .
4 In the event of a coup d'état or any other kind of change in government , the radio building is always one of the first to be visited by the new administration , brought under control , and used to signal to the rest of the country and the world beyond what has taken place .
5 A banner group was started 10 years ago in QP , probably one of the first in Scotland .
6 They are Far Senior in the first in the twelve fifty and Panto Prince did not run in the Mackeson at two o'clock .
7 So far , we have discussed evidence which is particularly relevant to the first of these issues , but which also has implications for the second .
8 Two of the women who founded the centre in 1980 , the charismatic Mrs Penny Brohn , a cancer sufferer herself who has spurned the path of orthodox medicine , and Mrs Pat Pilkington , and Dr Alec Forbes , the centre 's medical adviser , made it quite clear in the first of the series of six , that the centre 's work was to be seen as supplementary to orthodox treatment and not a substitute for it .
9 But that wedding evidently did not take place , and in December 1753 it was Ann Bowden whom he rushed to the altar in Exeter , his bride being already heavily pregnant with the first of their many offspring .
10 ‘ He was very serious in the first of the pictures , ’ the director now remembers .
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