Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Intel Corp has put off first deliveries of the P5 microprocessor to the first quarter of next year from the fourth quarter this year , but says that the move has not affected progress on the follow-on P6 , which it had said would start sampling as soon as the fourth quarter of next year , suggesting it will come very hot on the heels of the P5 .
2 We also point out to them of course that the second er portion of the first year 's payment is taken out through banker 's order .
3 Cropping up now and again in the nationals from Nottingham , has been the story of the mongrel Merv , named after Merv Hughes the Australian cricketer , who tried to grab hold of er Merv on the first day of the test about a week or so ago .
4 during which some part of the story was told in conventional gesture , e.g. the casting of Carabosse 's spell and the Lilac Fairy 's response in the first scene of The Sleeping Beauty .
5 During the Renaissance , and especially in Shakespeare 's case before the First Folio , such textual authority did not exist .
6 Paul 's description of the first Gentile Christians scattered round the Mediterranean coastlands of the first century AD would be true of the family into which I was born : ‘ not many wise as men reckon wisdom , not many in positions of power or from noblest families , not many wealthy ’ ( 1 Corinthians 1:26 ) .
7 But it would be absurd that he should be able to plead the jury 's verdict in the first trial as a bar to the second .
8 Cricket now … the amateur players of the Minor Counties have been taking on the game 's elite in the first round of the Nat West Trophy .
9 He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage .
10 Gloria came to do Ruth 's hair on the first Monday of every month .
11 That this playboy prince-cum-amateur-soldier should have seen the writing on the wall before the professionals hardly enhances one 's admiration of the First War military mind .
12 Two years ago , he took charge of the Elliott Sports Jets side who won the women 's trophy for the first time and , on Sunday , he will be plotting the downfall of Su Ragazzi in the men 's final .
13 Gooch was yesterday confirmed as skipper for the rest of Ashes series despite England 's defeat in the first Test .
14 The German press disappeared after Germany 's defeat in the First World War , while the missionary press , though of some historical interest , did not give rise to publications of any major importance .
15 ENGLAND 'S defeat in the first Cornhill Test has left them with even more problems than those produced by last winter 's disastrous tour of India .
16 Mountbatten , as Chief of Defence Staff , welcomed the idea , if he did not actually sow it in the Prime Minister 's mind in the first place .
17 The controversy over the pre-war period revolves around five central questions : the likelihood of renewed rebellion by the peasantry ; the dynamics of working-class protest ; the prospects for the consolidation of the Empire 's middle classes into a formidable social and political force ; the solidity of the tsarist forces of repression ; and the effect of Russia 's entry into the First World War upon socio-political conditions in the Empire .
18 Later , after looking at the rest of the house , they returned to Edouard 's study on the first floor .
19 It was one of revolution and civil war , following on from Russia 's collapse during the First World War .
20 Not only does such an arrangement disrupt the child 's schooling — although arguably it has already been badly disrupted by the child 's absenteeism — but it can often also be a traumatic experience for the child , entrenching the resentment and disaffection which were among the major causes of the child 's truancy in the first place .
21 The HSE 's review of the first year of COSHH concluded that most firms were aware of COSHH and had tried to comply with the regulations , though many had not gone beyond the collection of information about hazards .
22 Then she discarded that , too , and left Corrie 's side for the first time to join in with the other children .
23 Defender Tony Mowbray could return to Celtic 's side for the first time in ten weeks and silence speculation that manager Liam Brady is willing to sell the player .
24 Noting further that unc and applying Gauss 's theorem to the first term in the bracket we get
25 What craziness had led her to agree to Peter 's plan in the first place ? she asked herself , and what now … ?
26 Duke of Gloucester 's run on the first mid-week North Wales Coast Express was hit by a number of problems none of which were as a result of problems with the locomotive .
27 Janet tested the therapist 's determination during the first week by threatening to take an overdose if a second telephone call was not accepted .
28 Well th , the money 's for the child 's benefit in the first place .
29 Bachelors have their staircase at the front of the house off the entrance hall ; young ladies theirs from the mistress 's boudoir on the first floor to their bedrooms above it .
30 Then , fortified by a visit to the ‘ Manet and the Post-Impressionists ’ exhibition at the Grafton Galleries ( 1910 ) , where he saw Cézanne 's work for the first time , Bomberg entered the Slade School of Art in London with the aid of a much-needed loan from the Jewish Education Aid Society .
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