Example sentences of "[prep] the first [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 2 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Labs — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 3 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 4 | But England fullback Jon Webb does n't mind eating turf as he skids over for the first of his two tries as part of a record-equalling 22-point haul . |
| 5 | Already preparing himself for the first of his political glittering prizes , the viceroyalty of India , he visited the Trans-Caspian in 1888 and published a book on it in 1889 . |
| 6 | Because of this , my aunt and I returned home and ate before setting off for the first of our two destinations . |
| 7 | Young couples took their children to it as soon as their legs were long enough ; old people accepted it as the first of their last climbs and many beery pledges were made to the mountain in the Deeside pubs . |
| 8 | The birth of the first of their four children signalled a complete change in her life as , lacking convincing models for the successful media personality and mother , she created her own . |
| 9 | One of the first of our combined operations with the ID was in 1978 and heralded anew era in co-operation between our sea and shore based officers . |
| 10 | In 1902 Freeman became the co-author of the first of his fictional works to become well known , The Adventures of Romney Pringle , written under the pseudonym of Clifford Ashdown , and the fruit of Freeman 's collaboration with the physician John James Pitcairn . |
| 11 | But that wedding evidently did not take place , and in December 1753 it was Ann Bowden whom he rushed to the altar in Exeter , his bride being already heavily pregnant with the first of their many offspring . |
| 12 | Pakistan 's 1992 London Test double , Lord 's and The Oval , was completed inside 10 sessions , and had something in common with the first of their five Test victories in England : in 1954 there was unease at England 's choice of players , Bedser and Bailey being rested , so complacent were the selectors in the face of this new Test entity from far away . |
| 13 | It features the best in British and Irish hairdressing and to achieve maximum impact with the first of their bi-annual fashion collections , they chose a photographic location that 's literally out of this world ! |
| 14 | He took her hand and led her to the open-air dance-floor just as the band slipped into the first of their slow numbers . |
| 15 | It had only one skilled male dancer on its strength , Lionel Luyt , and in the first of their two programmes he had to partner the ballerina in the second act of Swan Lake , then dance both the Prince and Bluebird in Aurora 's Wedding ( with just three minutes to change costumes ) and finally lead the cast of Prince Igor . |
| 16 | With players like Stephen Martin , Kenny Morris , Billy McConnell , Alan Roper , Geoff Clarke , Stephen Smyrl and Martin Deery all sidelined for various reasons , it seemed that Holywood would n't seriously test the visitors in the first of their three weekend games against leading Ulster opposition . |
| 17 | The draw to decide which colour pieces the players have in the first of their 24 games ended with Kasparov gaining white — and so the opening move in the series which begins at London 's Savoy Theatre next Tuesday . |
| 18 | Inflation has fallen over the last three months and the cone of possible future inflation is now pointing slightly downwards , the bank reports in the first of its quarterly reviews of inflation produced in response to the Chancellor 's invitation in his speech at the Mansion House last year . |
| 19 | The Committee , however , in the first of its two reports in 1953 admitted that , despite isolated adjustments , no general or widespread changes had yet been made ( HMSO 1953 ) . |
| 20 | David Oldfield headed Leicester ahead in the 10th minute and two minutes later David Lowe volleyed in the first of his two goals . |
| 21 | This was evident to me the first time I attended a Karajan rehearsal , and even more so in the first of our long conversations . |
| 22 | In the first of our new series on small gardens , Rosie Atkins has been to visit a delightful family courtyard garden |
| 23 | IN THE FIRST OF OUR TWO-PART SERIES ON HOW TO USE IMAGES IN YOUR DOCUMENTS , JOHN BENNETT EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PAINTING AND DRAWING SOFTWARE , AND LOOKS AT SOME OF THE BEST PAINTING PACKAGES AROUND . |
| 24 | Starting today , in the first of our three-part exclusive series , he explains where the money from two pirate tours of South Africa and a Middlesex benefit has gone . |
| 25 | It led to the first of his nine England caps , mostly on tour , where his tubby enthusiasm and — from behind the ropes anyway — his seemingly unathletic , but jauntily optimistic matelot 's gait have endeared him to crowds . |
| 26 | Probyn is one of the few players on the international scene to have played the game at every level : from Old Albanians , Streatham and Croydon through Richmond and Wasps to the first of his 33 caps in 1988 . |