Example sentences of "[noun sg] to the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must therefore be stated in reply to the first part of the second question that the term ‘ matters relating to tort , delict or quasi-delict ’ within the meaning of article 5(3) of the Convention must be regarded as an independent concept covering all actions which seek to establish the liability of a defendant and which are not related to a ‘ contract ’ within the meaning of article 5(1) . |
| 2 | He took the club to the first round of the FA Cup seven times . |
| 3 | In 1895 Bridgeman married Caroline , elder daughter of Cecil Parker , land agent to the first Duke of Westminster , and second son of Thomas Wolstenholme , sixth Earl of Macclesfield . |
| 4 | Motivated by the lure of the finish , the riot police team ploughed through 40 miles of mangrove swamp to the first sight of the Pacific Ocean at Porto Juminez . |
| 5 | Intel Corp has put off first deliveries of the P5 microprocessor to the first quarter of next year from the fourth quarter this year , but says that the move has not affected progress on the follow-on P6 , which it had said would start sampling as soon as the fourth quarter of next year , suggesting it will come very hot on the heels of the P5 . |
| 6 | Practice varies from faculty to faculty : for example , mostfaculties will accept SCOTVEC modules when these are offered in combination with other school-leaving qualifications ; some will make offers on the basis of Ordinary or Higher National Certificates or Diplomas for entry to the first year of study , while the Faculty of Science and Engineering will in appropriate circumstances consider such qualifications as a basis for entry to the second year . |
| 7 | Furthermore , legislation expressly intended to give effect to the first stage of Economic and Monetary Union has already been enacted , following the decision of the European Council in Madrid in June 1989 that that stage should begin on 1 July 1990 . |
| 8 | At the end of the sequence , you may choose to close it with a fade out , but a straight cut to the first shot of the next sequence might be more brisk and businesslike . |
| 9 | There were about 100 of them on Sunday 's evening flight from Bucharest to Tel Aviv , unmistakably Soviet with their fur hats , cheap wintry clothes and suitcases and quiet , mechanical submission to the first taste of Israeli bureaucracy . |
| 10 | Behind him , the horses moved to a trot , and he could feel the wariness giving way to disbelief , and the disbelief to the first stirrings of a dazed expectancy . |
| 11 | RESTORE followed by a parameter sets the data pointer to the first item of data in the specified line ( or the next line containing a DATA statement if the specified line does not contain data ) . |
| 12 | If the right arises by reference to the first marketing of the article , such as where a semiconductor topography is designed by a Brazilian in Brazil but is marketed in the United Kingdom by an importer , then the importer will be deemed to own the semiconductor design right . |
| 13 | The output probe order of the annealing is then broken into a set of probe contigs , with either no or very few clones connecting the last probe of one contig to the first probe of the next . |
| 14 | Reading this group of sonnets is to be reminded of the noble conclusion to the first book of Bacon 's Advancement of Learning : In describing his Friend as my love or He the Poet could be seen as using the third-person form in order to place him apart , perhaps to place him outside the sphere of time 's influence . |
| 15 | By applying a 20p rate to the first £2,000 of taxable income , we have cut taxes for all 25 million taxpayers , and taken the four million on lowest incomes out of 25p tax altogether . |
| 16 | With respect to the first part of the question , it must be observed that the concept of ‘ matters relating to tort , delict or quasi-delict ’ serves as a criterion for defining the scope of one of the rules concerning the special jurisdictions available to the plaintiff . |
| 17 | For example , with respect to the first category of nomic correlates , the category which will be of most importance to us , there is the truth that if a necessitates b , then b is necessary to a . |
| 18 | She contributed a paper to the first congress of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science in Birmingham ( 1857 ) . |
| 19 | Canadian firm Consensys Computer Inc , Markham , Ontario since 1985 , a vendor of intelligent input/output cards , is laying claim to the first shipments of USL Unix SVR4.2 Destiny shrink-wrapped binary operating systems for Intel iAPX-86 architectures . |
| 20 | When the London Mercers ' Company presented a petition attacking clerical malpractice to the first session of that parliament , Henry allowed it to be transformed into three statutes , which curbed abuses in the areas of pluralism and non-residence , and in the exaction of probate and mortuary fees . |
| 21 | Application for admission to the first year of these courses should be made on the University 's direct entry form directly to the University of Ulster . |
| 22 | It can be argued that ‘ normalizing ’ the marked English structure is not a good strategy in this instance and that a slightly different but similarly marked Arabic structure ( using a particle such as inna ) would have preserved the prominence given by the writer to the first part of the statement ( Mr Rowland wants ) and still sounded natural in Arabic : |
| 23 | Revealing the painful side of the very private area of a marriage or close domestic partnership involves breaking social taboos , and sympathetic response to the first hint of difficulty helps the communication ( Wilson and James , 1987 ) . |
| 24 | Hence , even where force is used in self-defence in response to the first use of violence the employment of a greater degree of force than that used by the attacker , or the continued use of force beyond the point where the attacker is willing or unable to continue the attack would not be seen as legitimate in law . |
| 25 | Cats ' alert : Fire caused at least £10,000 of damage to the first floor of a house in Pannal Avenue , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough last night . |
| 26 | A MAJOR step in the development of the game in the ranks of the Services took place at St Helens on Sunday , when , in a curtain-raiser to the first match of the New Zealand tour , an RAF team defeated an Army XIII by 22-14 . |
| 27 | Engels , on the other hand , states in the preface to the first edition of The Origin that ‘ Morgan in his own way had discovered afresh in America the materialistic conception of history , discovered by Marx forty years ago , and in his comparison of barbarism and civilization it had led him , in the main points , to the same conclusions as Marx' [ p. 71 ] . |
| 28 | First in the queue was John Hickman driving a British-built Leyland-Daf belonging to Hargrave of Spalding , taking first place in preference to the first vehicle of the ‘ official ’ convoy , a Laser Transport International German-registered MAN with local MEP Christopher Jackson accompanying driver Roy Clementson in the cab . |
| 29 | The Scarabee d'Or is based on the upcoming AX 4wd and , says Heuliez , is a homage to the first crossing of the Sahara , led by Andre Citroen in December 1922 . |
| 30 | Not that Britten 's Prologue is in " sonata-form " or any other nominal academic form ( though it does bear some passing resemblance to the first movement of Sibelius 's Third Symphony , which is in sonata-form ) . |