Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Nicholson , who plays for Scottish Students next month against the English Students , ran from his own 22 to put Gareth Williams over for the first of the visitors ' seven tries . |
| 2 | Fama and MacBeth also found that the intercept ( ) was significantly different from the risk free rate for the entire period and for the first of the sub-periods , which tends to lend support to the zero-beta version of the CAPM rather than the risk-free rate variant . |
| 3 | Her hands were shaking as she reached for the first of the envelopes . |
| 4 | Separated bridles linked to two lines enabled this American invention to be positioned within reasonable accuracy over any likely shipwreck victim.The kite was star shaped and would thus lack the refinement of current designs ; but nevertheless , it must be credited as the first of the steerables . |
| 5 | The death of Aegidius was recorded within the account of the Loire wars in the Angers chronicle , and his son Syagrius later appears as the first of the opponents and victims of Childeric 's son Clovis . |
| 6 | Eusthenopteron , one of the first of the crossopterygii to grow stumpy fins , which later became legs . |
| 7 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |
| 8 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |
| 9 | Matisse , who was one of the first of the painters of his generation to appreciate the true genius of Cézanne , had been working under his influence since 1899 , the year in which he bought Cézanne 's Trois Baigneuses from Vollard , choosing it in preference to an Arlésienne by Van Gogh , and in the figure pieces that lead up to the Bonheur , the influence of Cézanne is immediately obvious . |
| 10 | He was lying on the large double bed with the first of the ice-packs over one side of his face . |
| 11 | The nun 's call coincided with the first of the bombs . |
| 12 | With the first of the ovens he 'd gone the long way through to the Hall 's kitchens , taking in the sights as he went . |
| 13 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 14 | Pew turned with a scream , but he turned the wrong way , and ran straight into the first of the horses . |
| 15 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
| 16 | I might even get to the office and be measured and out again before the first of the boys arrived . |
| 17 | The Prophet sprinted from the alley exit scant seconds before the first of the police cars roared out of the fog and screeched to a halt at the dark gap he had just left . |
| 18 | And the entire thing was preceded by a death at one of the near farms , just before the first of the storms came . |
| 19 | I wish the same could be said for the piano he uses : it is clearly in need of a tune in the first of the Valses-Caprices . |
| 20 | That case involved a solicitor who was a salaried partner in the first of the firms involved in the case and an employee in sole charge of a branch office of the other firm giving undertakings to a bank to pay over certain funds which were shortly due to come under his firm 's control to the credit of individuals who were seeking loans from that bank , the undertakings being accepted as security for the loans . |
| 21 | Kristeva 's own voice is recorded in this volume only in the first of the essays , ‘ The Adolescent Novel ’ , but each of the subsequent pieces variously addresses aspects of her work . |
| 22 | ‘ He was very serious in the first of the pictures , ’ the director now remembers . |
| 23 | Mrs Tibbs 's boarding house in the first of the tales is characteristic , although it is not Dickens at his later best : |
| 24 | It added up to an emphatic win by 137 runs , in the first of the tourists ' warm-up matches before Sunday 's opening Nehru Cup match against Sri Lanka . |
| 25 | In the first of the examples given , so long as the profits of the business are remitted to be dealt with under the English partnership agreement and the same persons are partners of the English firm and of its overseas branch , the branch office practice will be covered by the Indemnity Fund . |
| 26 | Their Lordships turn to the first of the orders under appeal , namely the order of Barnett J. refusing to overturn the decision of Judge Cameron not to grant a perpetual stay of the Barclays ( Asia ) prosecution . |
| 27 | So that what we have now in Shropshire , erm , on the first of the maps , if , if the new R D A's within Shropshire , which shows one in the south of the county , one in the , in the Oswestry area there , going across into Ellesmere , and this with , around the Whitchurch area . |
| 28 | Leave the carriage at plain knitting and it will knit in the E position needles with ease on the first of the rows that follow . |
| 29 | At that time she had known few people in the district , for they were among the first of the incomers , and Camille had been only a baby with the consequent ailments , accidents and dissatisfactions . |
| 30 | But it is not on that judgment nor on that conviction that his place among the first of the heroes of Socialism or Co-operation depends . |