Example sentences of "[conj] the first [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it soon seemed natural for one man to be held first among equals ; or the first prominent convert in a city , like Stephanas at Corinth ( 1 Cor. 16 : 15–16 ) , might form a community round his household . |
| 2 | The origins of English Christianity can be found in Glastonbury Abbey , where the first Christian sanctuary in the British Isles was established and where , according to legend , King Arthur was buried . |
| 3 | However , it happened that the first audio typist in Britain was a woman , Mary Ferguson , who was governess to the children of Colonel Gouraud , Edison 's representative in Britain . |
| 4 | He was once credited with bringing back from Sweden the secret of how the mill worked , which he discovered while disguised as a wandering fiddler ( hence the nickname , ‘ Fiddler ’ Foley ) ; but it now seems clear that the first slitting mill in England was set up at Dartford , Kent , in 1590 . |
| 5 | The Second International also insisted that the first socialist revolution in a major country would quickly find imitators elsewhere . |
| 6 | Similarly it was during the RPF years that the first significant evolution in de Gaulle 's attitude towards Germany occurred . |
| 7 | Although the first three letters in the word manicure are MAN , the percentage of men who regularly submit to this soothing form of therapy can be counted on the fingers of one ( perfectly manicured ) hand . |
| 8 | You know , the number and I mean has n't been able to get round to buying space in the T T G and Travel Weekly until the first two weeks in February cos we were so late in informing him I must had this conversation has taken away the brochure so there 's not a copy here but we 'll try and get hold of some as soon as possible but I mean they 're mainly for Glasgow but had been been up there from R and D y'know and she said that the people up there did n't seem to know the slightest thing about interline how to deal with interline tickets and agency tickets and all that sort of business . |
| 9 | For example if the first two phonemes in the string are the set of possible interpretations will be reduced to all words beginning re - such as repudiate , rebuke , etc . |
| 10 | Now , after six games without defeat and the first away win in place , striker Gordon Durie is even talking about joining the title race . |
| 11 | walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now . |
| 12 | He was succeeded by Ertha Pascal-Trouillot , a member of the country 's Supreme Court and the first female President in Haiti 's 186-year history . |
| 13 | If M and N are any two positions , then say fc(M)>fc(N) if either all entries in fc(M) are strictly positive , and fc(M) is shorter than fc(N) or fc(M) and fc(N) have the same length , and the first few entries in fc(M) and fc(N) are equal and the next entry of fc(M) is larger than that of fc(N) . |
| 14 | A settlement at Witham in Somerset may have been disturbed when the first Carthusian house in England was founded in the late twelfth century in the apparently empty Selwood Forest . |
| 15 | In 1956 , shortly after AEA 's formation , a major civil milestone was reached when the first commercial reactors in the world were inaugurated at Calder Hall . |
| 16 | Your first your first little group in bar fifteen which is the same as the first little group in bar fourteen , you would repeat . |