Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan has been sufficiently impressed with the results so far to finance the printing of enough copies for the first year pupils of three comprehensive schools beginning in September 1985 . |
| 2 | so much for the Italian job Gloucester are back home training this week and getting themselves ready for the first league match of the season … that 's against wasps at Kingsholm on saturday ( 1 ) |
| 3 | A quick dust , to get rid of the cobwebs , and it 's off to the track , adrenalin pumping , because that time has come for the first track workout of the summer . |
| 4 | as if to illustrate his point , the early volunteers on site for the first passenger services of the year on Saturday , April 11 , were the ladies . |
| 5 | In this study we aimed to record for the first time patterns of UOS motility associated with occurrence of GOR in children referred for evaluation of suspected disorders of oesophageal motility including pathological gastro-oesophageal reflux . |
| 6 | But the testing time has now arrived ; because for the first time posts of leadership in humanities departments are being taken up by a generation of scholars who have been familiar with the computer from their earliest schooldays , scholars who are neither frightened by , nor over-respectful of , the new powers which the computer has brought . |
| 7 | All problems resolved in one go because now for the first time question of optimum distance becomes an issue for the viewer . |
| 8 | For the first time details of serious crimes , including all cases of cattle stealing which village headmen chose to report , were investigated by a police force which could in theory take quick and decisive action . |
| 9 | The Disciplinary Committee lost no time in expanding its reports of hearings , issuing for the first time details of the chairman 's comments in the case of Michael Jordan , senior partner of Cork Gully , and Richard Stone , head of corporate finance at Coopers & Lybrand , who were found guilty last year of accepting the appointment of administrator to Polly Peck in spite of a continuing professional interest between PPI and C&L . |
| 10 | The quality of consular services was improved in a number of cases , notably in Britain where a departmental committee of 1903 introduced for the first time recruitment of consuls by limited competition ( instead of as hitherto purely by nomination of the secretary of state for foreign affairs ) and a rationalised salary structure . |
| 11 | However , during the fifteenth century changes were introduced and we see for the first time representations of corpses , cadavers and skeletons , and it is from these — usually to be found on memorial brasses , and particularly on those in East Anglia — that we acquire our first glimpse of the English shroud . |
| 12 | Indeed , for the first time computerization of a business it may well represent a better bet than the over-featured products such as Framework and Symphony . |
| 13 | A sudden dedication to a foreign influence like Hegel or Derrida , brief but intense , is about the only thing there is that can cause the British to lose a sense of humour or a sense of proportion , and during the first London production of Waiting for Godot in 1955 I was reproached by strangers seated around me for laughing , though I still think it a funny play . |
| 14 | Entering the church you can see that during the first building period of 1578–81 , the E end up to the crossing was constructed ; then the nave was continued in 1600–61 . |
| 15 | Described as the first encyclopedia handbook of plants that will survive water shortages . |
| 16 | Nucleation time , defined as the first appearance time of cholesterol monohydrate crystals , was measured as described by Holan et al with certain modifications . |
| 17 | Ian McCloud , of Unicef , celebrated as he saw off the first UN convoy of food in weeks . |
| 18 | After the first Education Act of 1870 and until the end of the nineteenth century , control of schools and their curricula was exercised through the enforcement of public education codes by regular inspectorial visits mainly for the purpose of testing pupils in prescribed activities . |
| 19 | Actually my father was one of the first parliament members of Kuwait , but I became a member only just before the invasion by two months . |
| 20 | Frame Technology Inc , San Jose , is right in there with FrameMaker 3.0 for Windows NT , needless to say claiming it to be the industry 's first document publishing application for Windows NT : it will be available customers within 30 days of the first customer ship of Windows NT at $800 . |
| 21 | Brigade boss : David Blake , from the Bebington Company , is to take over from Brian Clarke as Commander of the first Chester Battalion of the Church Lads ' and Church Girls ' Brigade . |
| 22 | In the records of the first Protectorate Parliament of 1654 Erle appears only on the committee of privileges , presumably because he refused to sign the Recognition , and he was not re-elected in 1656 , although approved at a preliminary gentry meeting . |
| 23 | Private Richard Downs , 19 , said he was serving as a bar steward in the officers ' mess of the First Battalion Duke of Wellington 's Regiment on election night — April 9 . |
| 24 | We 'll also be keeping you in touch with the second replay of the first qualifying round of the F A Cup which is taking place at Fort Meadow between Buckingham Town and Brackley Town ; it 's becoming a bit of a saga , the previous two matches ended one all draws . |
| 25 | In the United States of America , ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ legislation has been unsuccessfully attacked on constitutional grounds including the vagueness of the terms of the statutes , the absence of procedural due process safeguards and the infringement of the first amendment rights of free speech . |
| 26 | ONE OF the first railway privatisations of the century has finally come of age with the clearance of a unique hire purchase agreement with British Rail . |
| 27 | Boyd first came to Britain in the early Sixties as the organiser of one of the first package tours of blues and gospel musicians , featuring artists such as Muddy Waters and the Reverend Gary Davis . |
| 28 | Having addressed the President and the Congress , and having conducted what must have been one of the first lecture tours of the United States , Owen set up a village of Co-operation at New Harmony , in Indiana . |
| 29 | Treaty in conjunction with the First Council Directive of 11 May 1960 for the implementation of article 67 of the E.E.C . |
| 30 | Treaty , I can deal relatively briefly with the question of their compatibility with the First Council Directive of 11 May 1960 for the implementation of article 67 of the E.E.C . |