Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun] [noun pl] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Government officials are admitting for the first time families in mid-value houses of £66,000 — £88,000 are likely to face bills of £600 not £400 as hoped . |
| 6 | For the first time films by and about the indigenous population of North America will be included in the festival . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The 1988 survey included for the first time results from saliva tests from half the children surveyed ; this double check may have encouraged them to be more honest about their smoking habits . |
| 10 | For the first time representatives from the Soviet Union 's republics ( the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Armenia , Azerbaidjan , Georgia , the Russian Federation and Ukraine ) formed part of the Soviet delegation to the conference of Black Sea countries , which took place on July 11-12 near Moscow . |
| 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 | During the first ministry changes for example in the army , universities and Civil Service were revolutionary . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | My father was the head waiter at The Savoy , my mother opened one of the first milk bars in Soho , and my grandmother was a vegetable cook at London 's Park Lane Hotel . |
| 15 | Parents and teachers have set up one of the first toy libraries in the country for visually handicapped children . |
| 16 | Amongst her many other interests , Ann initiated some of the first Medau Classes for children and she also worked widely with young folk through scouting etc . |
| 17 | The Antonov had left Berlin , Germany , in June on a commemorative flight to Sydney , Australia , to mark the 100th anniversary of the first glider flights by Otto Lilienthal . |
| 18 | The mirrors span the entire period from the discovery of the first metal mirrors to the introduction of Bohemian and Venetian glass and their decoration reflect the culture that made them : dragons in China , goddesses in Egypt , Aphrodite in Greece , breasts in Java . |
| 19 | One of the first temperance groups in the country started in Darlington in 1831 . |
| 20 | These houses , the homes of the first pottery makers on Crete , had rectangular rooms and were made without stone footings . |
| 21 | One of the first brass mills in the region was set up by Abraham Darby ( q.v. ) in 1702 , but by 1930 the industry was extinct in the area , having been taken over by Birmingham . |
| 22 | Church leaders in Gloucester have named the date for the ordination of the first women priests in the diocese . |
| 23 | She became one of the first women fellows in 1919 , when women were finally admitted . |
| 24 | A star item of a different kind was T.H. Gillespie 's Story of the Edinburgh Zoo , for it contains illustrations by Nancy Brackett , one of the first women elders at St.A 's & St.G 's . |
| 25 | It was one of the first cavalry battles in England 's long and bitter Civil War . |
| 26 | It was one of the first air bases in 1915 , between the wars was used for gun and bomb testing , and from 1951–71 for atomic weapons research . |
| 27 | I was just remarking the other day , I think I brought one of the first Land Rovers to the borders from Edinburgh . |
| 28 | He became one of the first Whitworth scholars in 1875 and completed his education at King 's College , University of London . |
| 29 | Harry ( H.H. ) Wills was one of the first Engineering students at University College Bristol after its opening in 1876 . |
| 30 | The Banbury company is one of the first amateur groups to be allowed to get to grips with it . |