Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the first [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 …
2 This week , each will be hoping to move up a gear for the first of the year 's major championships , even if Augusta do still insist on calling it a tournament .
3 Considering he was four over par after the first three holes of the New Orleans tournament , Faldo 's 11 under for the remaining 69 on a course he found demanding looks a useful dress rehearsal for the first of the year 's majors .
4 During the years that the Uganda syllabus panels were meeting , the Lake Victoria Hotel , Entebbe was chosen as the venue for the first in a series of international workshops which heralded a new approach to curriculum development , a new dimension for pan-African co-operation and whose eventual product , the Entebbe Mathematics , proved to be possibly the most influential curriculum project yet to be launched in English — speaking Africa .
5 Leonard was a natural choice for the first of the new series , both in bearing and background he represented , not merely McGill , but Canada itself ; he was accordingly approached .
6 After the two men had shaken hands she thankfully escaped , leaving them to talk while she went out to prepare the treatment-room for the first of the morning 's patients .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 On a recent flight over the area a crane was to be seen alongside the existing hangars , and the timber-framing for the first of the new houses was already taking shape .
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