Example sentences of "[prep] the first [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cricket now , and while England are getting ready to meet Pakistan in the final of the World Cup , there 's another piece of sporting history being made over in South Africa.Worcestershire 's players are preparing for the first of a five match series there , to help the country back from years of sporting isolation . |
| 2 | Now we 're off to America and the desert of southern California for the first of a four part series featuring the RAF 's parachute display team — the Falcons . |
| 3 | That meeting , which could occur as early as two weeks ' time , will then declare at least a three-month gap in meetings to fulfil the Unionist precondition for talks and clear the way for the first of a three-stage set of inter-party and inter-government negotiations to prepare a new British-Irish Agreement . |
| 4 | The bravest man of the week has to be grand prix driver Martin Donnelly … he was back in a formula one car for the first since a near fatal crash in Spain … |
| 5 | Now with summer well and truly upon us , it 's time for the first in a new series looking at some of the region 's loveliest gardens . |
| 6 | The Ryehill Course near Bloxham in Oxfordshire is where we 're going for the first in a new series of the Friday Feature . |
| 7 | Earlier in the month , on Nov. 8 , Roh had attended a one-day meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in Kyoto , in what was described as the first of a planned series of regular bilateral discussions . |
| 8 | Returned Volunteer Action — A grant of £10,737 was approved towards the core costs of RVA as the first of a three year commitment . |
| 9 | Third World First — A grant of £14,350 was approved towards the core costs of 3W1 as the first of a three year commitment . |
| 10 | £10,000 would be released as the first of a three year commitment . |
| 11 | Well , Rocktron 's system might not be everyone 's idea of perfection , but it 's beautifully put together with state-of-the-art components , and as the first of a potential wave of ‘ off the peg ’ rack systems it 's the one the rest will have to beat . |
| 12 | One of the first of a long series of attempts to reconstruct the facts behind the records was undertaken by Hermann Samuel Reimarus ( 1694 — 1768 ) in his Apology for the Reasonable Worshippers of God . |
| 13 | Although it is modest compared with the major producing fields , it has great significance as one of the first of a new generation of small fields to use the processing facilities offered by another field operator . |
| 14 | This is the balance of the first of a three year commitment of £10,000 per annum. £4,645 of the first payment was allocated in 1991-92 . |
| 15 | As a woman 's teenage children leave home , she may interpret the loss of the first as a welcome freedom . |
| 16 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |
| 17 | He suspected that if he were to walk into the newsroom and make an arrest there would be only a momentary gasp before someone was out with the first of a new crop of jokes . |
| 18 | McRae 's Subaru coughed like a grizzly bear , went sideways into the first of a thousand bends , spitting grit in lacerating force at a lot of spectators , as brave as the men they had come to admire then disappeared into the foreboding conifers of Grizedale Forest . |
| 19 | In the first of a two part series , MIRANDA FELLOWS takes a look at the art scene in Dublin , as it works its way through the year as European City of Culture . |
| 20 | In the first of a two part series Simon Garrett takes a closer look at these medieval windows in ’ Light on the World ’ . |
| 21 | In the first of a new series , Richard Jackson of Radio 5 's Morning Edition looks at the quirky side of gardening life |
| 22 | In the first of a new series problem-solver , Nigel Colborn , offers some planting solutions to garden hot-spots |
| 23 | In the first of a new series , which considers the properties of various media , MARTIN CHILD examines the brands available and puts them to the test . |
| 24 | In the first of a new series on multi-activities Henry Druce gets high on paragliding |
| 25 | In the first of a new series Peter Partington shows how to draw birds by looking for the essential scaffolding of shapes on which to build form and detail |
| 26 | In the first of a new series Raymond Spurrier , still travelling hopefully , encounters some visual shocks in a trip down under |
| 27 | In the first of a new series Jane Stroud examines the opportunities offered to artists by the AOI |
| 28 | ‘ I think of myself as a social worker ’ , he says , in the first of a new series of Inside Story : Immoral Earnings ( BBC1 , 9.30pm ) . |
| 29 | In the first of a regular series , we bring together some of the practical designs and circuits which first appeared in the US magazine EDN . |
| 30 | In the first of a regular series , the Walk For Life Diary here reports on two of the more interesting ‘ Walks ’ . |