Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This June Meeting asked for the bond balances to be called in so as the final land purchase could go ahead and , for the first of many times , it discussed the question of the use of caddies on a Sunday . |
| 2 | Now she waited , husbanding strength for the first of many visitors . |
| 3 | The University commissioned a new piece of music by Irish composer Elaine Agnew for the first of these concerts , which not only gave a young composer her first opportunity to write for a full orchestra but also provided an affectionate tribute to the former Chancellor 's memory . |
| 4 | As for the first of these concepts , we have seen that to a considerable extent in most schools the project achieved the objective of broadly based participation in devising curriculum-related library plans . |
| 5 | Concerning those chemical changes , which were of fantastic magnitude , taking place during the first of these periods , it is probably true to say that most established religions do now , perhaps reluctantly , accept as true the scientific theories governing the associated processes of evolution . |
| 6 | There was a sharp crack as the first of several skins of heat-resistant material which coated the exterior of the pod shattered and then separated . |
| 7 | The second half was played at just as frantic pace as the first with both sides looking dangerous on the attack , but Abingdon looking more solid in defence . |
| 8 | Hannah went too , and the cameras followed Mrs Field 's forthright manner , allied to a distinct sense of humour and a stentorian voice , made a deep impression on the director and his crew — and on the television critics of the major newspapers , to judge by the reviews published the day after the first of many transmissions of Too Long a Winter . |
| 9 | Certainly in the case of the first of those conditions the present appellants would find themselves in considerable difficulty . |
| 10 | In one of the first of these surveys ( of the fourth and fifth year curriculum in secondary schools ) in 1979 , the HMI noted that secondary teachers made wide use of ‘ heavily directed teaching , a preponderance of dictated or copied notes , and emphasis on the giving and recall of information , with little room or time for enquiry or explanation of applications ’ . |
| 11 | Of the first of these developments one of the earliest examples was the publication in Sweden from 1824 onwards of a list of the country 's consuls and vice-consuls . |
| 12 | The foregoing discussion of investment planning represents an essay in definition of the first of these conditions within the context of British capitalism ; I now turn to the second condition , and the relationship between the two . |
| 13 | Just try , if you can , the opening Moderato of the first of these concertos ( in B flat major ) and you will be tempted to explore further . |
| 14 | The truth of the first of these dicta is easy to see : any change may make matters worse rather than better ; only in a system which is as bad as it can possibly be , can change be introduced which must be beneficial . |
| 15 | Consideration of the first of these categories will hold over to the next section . |
| 16 | Fundraising began in earnest , with the first of such projects intended to fund restoration and the modernisation of storage spaces . |
| 17 | It did , especially after lolling in the bath with the first of several Ruddles . |
| 18 | The suggestion , mentioned earlier , that there is a hierarchy of hairpin vortices was made in part to help with the first of these problems . |
| 19 | With the first of these emancipations went the opportunity to create his material and technological culture ; with the second , comparable opportunities for his mental and social culture . |
| 20 | The concern here is with the first of these points . |
| 21 | Our concern essentially is with the first of these possibilities , the case of natural monopoly — no competition is possible . |
| 22 | The governments of France and Germany , for example , fall into the first of these categories , and those of the United States and the Commonwealth countries into the second . |
| 23 | Michael Ramsey qualified only under the first of those epithets . |
| 24 | However , the contractual commitment stems from the first of those calls on the basis that it is followed up by the time agreed . |
| 25 | ‘ In England people want to fit things in , ’ starts Dan , in the first of many essays on Why America Is Fantastic And Britain Is Shit . |
| 26 | All the same , the Joyce family was in the first of many groups to endure the consequences of allegiance to an ousted imperial power . |
| 27 | In the first of these passages National Socialism has ‘ a calculated plan ’ . |
| 28 | Various attempts have been made to regard Broca 's aphasia as a syndrome in the first of these senses — that is , to argue that there is a single underlying deficit in the language processing system which is responsible for all the symptoms of Broca 's aphasia . |
| 29 | In the first of these studies , Greer and Bagley ( 1971 ) found after an 18-month follow-up that patients who had received no psychiatric attention before discharge from hospital after attempts repeated more often ( 39 per cent ) than those who had received either brief psychiatric contact ( 26 per cent repeated ) or more prolonged psychiatric contact ( 20 per cent repeated ) . |
| 30 | The usage embodied in the first of these quotations is now well established in the literature , and the sentiments expressed in the second serve to remind us that the idea of the ultimately contingent nature of what is often taken to be ‘ natural ’ has a long and distinguished pedigree . |