Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that we have available is the notes for the first part of the introduction , written , presumably , in the spring , and consisting of a highly condensed discussion of Greek tragedy and its development . |
| 2 | Sir Peter Holmes , Shell 's chairman who admitted that he was ‘ astonished ’ to discover that the irregularities had occurred through an associate company failing to follow strict rules against speculative dealing , said that he expected any further exposure to be limited to a £65 million charge which the company would take in its accounts for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 3 | We can conclude that French woodwinds were being used in England from about 1675 , when they were apparently introduced by the Hotteterres , and were still being played there by leading musicians through the first quarter of the 18th century . |
| 4 | South Korean electronics companies have revised upwards their export targets for this year , encouraged by a surge in their shipments during the first quarter of this year : Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it had raised its export target to $6,200m from its original target of $5,800m , and from $4,700m last year ; Goldstar Co Ltd said it would be able to export $3,400m this year , up from its previous target of $3,200m and the $2,570m last year ; Daewoo Electronics Co Ltd says it sees a smaller increase . |
| 5 | TEETHING troubles with America 's second space shuttle , Challenger , could disrupt plans for the first flight of Europe 's Spacelab this autumn . |
| 6 | They have had to develop more detailed service costings than required by their main customers , the district health authorities , who were limited to the less information costly block contracts during the first year of the internal market . |
| 7 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it signed a number of contracts during the first quarter of 1993 totalling $30m for AXE digital switching kit to extend the public telecommunications network in Liaoning Province , Peoples Republic of China . |
| 8 | The contracts for the first defence of the title given to Lewis when Riddick Bowe was stripped of the distinction by the WBC were signed by the fighter and his manager , Frank Maloney , in Glasgow yesterday and faxed to Tucker 's handler , Don King , in New York . |
| 9 | The X Business Group rates DEC third in X-terminal shipments for the first quarter of 1992 , after Network Computing Devices Inc and HP . |
| 10 | Contractile activity increases promptly with food ingestion ( within one to three minutes after the first mouthful of food ) and lasts several hours after ingestion of a meal . |
| 11 | With a smothered curse he pulled her into his arms and began to kiss her , using a more powerful argument than words as the first touch of his mouth on hers sent everything out of Leonora 's head other than the fact that she loved and wanted this man to the point where she was almost ready to believe that she 'd been mistaken . |
| 12 | Anxious children showed a slightly different pattern : there were often marked increases in fears and worries during the first year of life of the sibling . |
| 13 | On Friday 's show Tim will choose one of this week 's winners for the first prize of fish and chips in a Limo with champagne . |
| 14 | RJ Mitchell died fifteen months after the first flight of the Spitfire . |
| 15 | Twenty two months after the first signs of bowel symptoms , 20 months after the first complaint of knee pain , and 14 months after finishing steroid treatment both knees were clinically normal . |
| 16 | It was also agreed that both sides " shall jointly make efforts to adopt documents for the verification of the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula within two months after the first meeting of the North-South Joint Nuclear Control Committee " , and that inspections would begin within 20 days of the adoption of these documents . |
| 17 | What the searchers ‘ found ’ were the papal letters mentioned by Lanfranc in 1072 , fortified with forged additions granting the primacy in perpetuity to the successors of the first archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 18 | His address to the prospective readers of the first issue of Kingston 's Magazine in 1859 is significant : |
| 19 | Many readers of the first edition of The Birmingham Magazine have asked for more information about current courses ran by the University . |
| 20 | It is an interesting reflection of the diversity of views and values in school that one of the readers of the first draft of this book commented on this letter : ‘ How sentimental ! |
| 21 | The survival of the Stewart line now hung by the thread of a baby 's life , and not surprisingly Mary 's health was one of the major worries of the first year of the reign . |
| 22 | The tax remissions of the first half of the fifteenth century show that some of the villages which later disappeared were granted substantial reliefs , although this was not universal . |
| 23 | ( f ) Hold the card at about the same level as your shoulder , ie above the heads of the first row of students . |
| 24 | The subjects of the first year of this proposed course would be anatomy , physiology , conformation and external diseases ; in the second year , surgery , materia medica , pharmacy and botany as relating to veterinary medicine ; in the third year , pathology , epizootic diseases , treatment and prevention of disease , hospital practice and shoeing . |
| 25 | Nonetheless , theirs are the coarsest images of the first generation of LC TVs . |
| 26 | There is a very useful collection of 111 vessels of the first half of the first century under ‘ Belgic Verulamium ’ ; a group of 18 vessels from the filling of an unfinished well-shaft dated by a coin of Pius ( 145 — 161 ) ‘ lost in fair condition ’ , and a stamp of the samian potter GERMINVS who is also found on the Antonine Wall ( 142 — 163 ) ; a pit group ( Pit 6 , Insula V ) of 14 vessels with a coin of Pius ( 154 — 155 ) ; 9 vessels from Triangular Temple , from the filling between two floors of the courtyard ; there follows 9 more vessels , from different places , and 15 predating the S.E. gate , and finally , there are 7 from Pit 5 in building IV , considered as late fourth and possibly fifth century . |
| 27 | Fantasias ‘ on themes from such-an-such opera ’ were staple fare for many of the less substantial virtuosi of the first half of the nineteenth century , and even Liszt contributed a fair number of them to the literature . |
| 28 | A protocol was signed , however , preserving economic ties into the first quarter of 1992 and with the aim of guaranteeing over that period deliveries of the equivalent of 70 per cent of first quarter deliveries in 1991 . |
| 29 | There had been a total of eight candidates in the first round of voting on March 4 , after an agreement in December 1989 between the various political groupings to end the previous one-party system . |
| 30 | Yet even by the standards of the day , it seems extraordinary that Joyce should have thought the British people at large would respond sympathetically to his shrill and truculent celebration of the fate of Jews in the first year of Hitler 's dictatorship . |