Example sentences of "the first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil Blender and Billy Ruff were the first pros from the States to skate the ramp . |
| 2 | Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden feel the first flutterings of love and , for once , we are offered a complete family ( the Victorian habit of removing one , or both , parents was a convention that survived into Ransome 's time ) . |
| 3 | Two years later the first monuments were taken into care , and many more followed . |
| 4 | At or before the first directions appointment or hearing , whichever occurs first , the applicant must file at court a statement on Form CHA 72 confirming that a copy of the application has been served on each respondent ( FPCR , r4(7) ; FPR , r4.4(7) ) . |
| 5 | It will inform the recipient of the date , time and place of the first directions appointment or hearing , as appropriate . |
| 6 | In other cases early appointment is clearly desirable so that the guardian can attend the first directions appointment . |
| 7 | The application must be served on all respondents at least seven days before the first directions appointment or hearing . |
| 8 | The application must be served on all respondents at least three days before the first directions appointment or hearing . |
| 9 | The application must be served on all respondents at least seven days before the first directions appointment or hearing . |
| 10 | The application must be served on all respondents at least seven days before the first directions appointment or hearing . |
| 11 | Members of the Suffolk Accident Rescue Service , staff voluntarily by GPs , are usually the first doctors to arrive at the scene of car accidents where they can give specialist emergency treatment , additional to that provided by ambulance staff . |
| 12 | Note down the first thoughts that come into your head and follow where they lead ; but do try to answer all the questions . |
| 13 | In my view , these figurines are evidence of the first consequences of the coming Neolithic trauma — the beginning of weaning and the loss of the primal mothers . |
| 14 | Severe recent flooding in the Andes was one of the first consequences of El Niñshow the impact of global warming , with a 0.041° C mean increase between 1963 and 1990 . |
| 15 | The first structures to be considered must be the defences themselves , especially those which protected only an essential core , even though it may extend beyond the government installations . |
| 16 | The Moon was one of the first objects to come under the scrutiny of the newly-invented telescope . |
| 17 | Contrary to what was to happen in the modern period ( and still continues ) , the first objects of trade were not logs but what are sometimes rather dismissively referred to as ‘ minor forest products ’ . |
| 18 | Women with children were in the first buses . |
| 19 | The man stopped the car for the fifth and last time , and there , right outside where Boy lived , they kissed , passionately , scandalously , because by now people were up and there was traffic passing , the first buses and freight lorries on the Commercial Road ; people could have seen them . |
| 20 | The first buses of the day were abroad , brightly lit and empty . |
| 21 | Material development loop : first trials in the classroom involving teacher developers and observers ( often the curriculum designer and program designer ) lead to the revision of the design and production of the first materials — both program and notes . |
| 22 | The first difficulties began to appear last year after the Mazowiecki government , without consulting the public or the parliament , decreed that children should be taught religion in schools , in effect making Catholicism close to a state religion . |
| 23 | If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again . |
| 24 | The first proposals to be approved were Berkshire 's own scheme and a more radical one from North East London Polytechnic within the framework of its School for Independent Study . |
| 25 | . In nineteen forty one on June the first clothes rationing began , and for that year twenty coupons were issued . |
| 26 | Hughes , aged29 , has a remarkable record going back to the first women 's World Championships in 1980 including a world gold in 1986 , world bronze in 1987 and two European titles . |
| 27 | Five years after Emily Davison 's death the first women won the vote . |
| 28 | Rixi , as she was now known , proved an invaluable asset : Austria won the Europeans that year and the next , then gained a stunning victory at the first Women 's World Championship in Budapest in 1937 . |
| 29 | It includes the appointment of the first women to his Cabinet , Gillian Shephard and Virginia Bottomley , and cuts its average age from 54 to 51 . |
| 30 | The first women newsreaders had a difficult time because they were constantly ‘ filtered ’ through their sexuality . |