Example sentences of "[art] first [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first of the debt-reduction deals came before the Brady plan was announced and , indeed , paved the way for it . |
| 2 | In the expansion of academic legal scholarship that has taken place in the past 20 years family law was one of the first of the traditional areas of study to be ‘ broadened ’ . |
| 3 | The first of the empirical studies concentrates upon the lives of ‘ ordinary ’ members of the Young Conservatives . |
| 4 | I filled the plastic detergent-bottle and primed the lighter , left it lying on the top of the bank most of the rabbit holes were in , then went back to the first of the blocked-up holes and lit the fuse with my disposable cigarette-lighter . |
| 5 | Buyers from all over the country have been attending the first of the annual auctions of holly and mistletoe . |
| 6 | The first of the Annual Reports under the new regime is perhaps of special interest and deserves quoting at some length : |
| 7 | Lancaster College of Technology was the first of the future polytechnics to have established an Academic Board , in 1962 . |
| 8 | The Visigoths were the first of the barbarian peoples to be formally settled within Gaul . |
| 9 | Resetting a fallen Maxim machine gun to lay down covering fire , Ace stepped out to meet Petion and the first of the arriving Marines . |
| 10 | Caledor orders the first of the ill-starred expeditions to the Blighted Isle . |
| 11 | At 0630 hours the first of the early risers entered the cookhouse for breakfast . |
| 12 | It could be one of the first of the man-made units of goodness to be added to the existing store already laid up by the evolutionary process . |
| 13 | This was a convent owned by the Theatines , the first of the crusading Orders founded before the Jesuits in 1524 . |
| 14 | The first of the great wheels were tall , and consideration has to be made for the height of the canopy , but there were many adaptations of the walking wheel and the more familiar smaller wheel , at which the spinner sat , soon followed , and on a small gallery like the one at Hodge Hill , the mistress of the house could sit with her tiny flax wheel . |
| 15 | The last beach along here before you come to the first of the rocky headlands that are so prettily characteristic of Biarritz 's coastline , is called the Chambre d'Amour or Chamber of Love , after an old depression in the sand where two lovers are said to have put themselves well and truly on the map by being surprised in their amours by the Atlantic tide . |
| 16 | ‘ It was to be , ’ he recalled , ‘ the first of the kitchen-sink comedies , but , unfortunately , it was not released for three years , making it the last of the kitchen-sink comedies . ’ |
| 17 | The first of the other boys arrived and Mr Gillis was still hunched over his book . |
| 18 | The first of the new spreadsheets , called Improv , which builds spreadsheets using simple English commands rather than manipulating clumsy grids of rows and columns , should sell 500,000 copies before June , when the price goes up from an introductory $19 to the full $195 . |
| 19 | He was secure enough to mint his own silver pennies , which must have been among the first of the new coins to be produced and an indication of the economic vitality and continuing independence of his kingdom . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The first of the new areas covered by the practice note , the auditors ' report to regulators , seeks to provide a common approach to reporting by auditors and establish clear unequivocal wording of auditors ' reports , so that whenever possible auditors may use a standard layout and form of wording when reporting to all regulators . |
| 22 | We expect that the first of the new authorities will be in place by April 1994 . |
| 23 | If legislation were introduced early in the next session of parliament ( beginning in November 1991 ) , the first of the new authorities could be in place by April 1994 , and local authorities would be consulted on the basis that the new tax could be in place in 1993-94 . |
| 24 | The first of the new sketches shows a man who was seen at the docks the Saturday before with a woman who resembled Carol . |
| 25 | The first of the new novels , Home Before Dark , will appear in May 1994 . |
| 26 | I believe that an important part of the first of the new clauses tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) is the independence of interpreters . |
| 27 | The Hanmer family were the first of the new immigrants to appear and they were still there 120 years later . |
| 28 | Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon was the first of the modern cases to analyse the previous authorities in terms of ‘ agency . ’ |
| 29 | In doing so , it secured for co-operatives what the first of the modern Companies Acts had done in 1844 for joint stock companies . |
| 30 | Nor has it fulfilled the wishes of the Vice-Chancellor under whom Lady Barber made the original bequest ‘ that the University of Birmingham would be the first of the modern universities to give effective expression to the claim of the Fine Arts ’ as ‘ an academic discipline and an indispensable element in humane and liberal studies ’ . |