Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some fungi succumb to the first heavy frosts , but there are others which seem to thrive in cold , wet weather . |
| 2 | It was in 1851 that the Great Northern Railway established its locomotive works in Doncaster , and twelve years later the amalgamation of a number of railway companies led to the first regional monopoly , the North Eastern Railway , this business being engineered mainly by George Hudson , the ‘ Railway King ’ . |
| 3 | From local origins — Station KDKA in Pittsburgh — the transmission of radio broadcasts grew to the first national network , the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) of 1926 , closely followed by the Columbia Broadcasting Company ( CBC ) in 1927 . |
| 4 | By the early sixties … it was clear that neither the efforts made in the first post-war decade nor the developments outlined in Mr Butler 's White Paper were reducing — or were likely to reduce — the volume of crime or the numbers of persistent offenders . |
| 5 | More direct if under-stated evidence comes from the retrospective questions posed in the first official birth control enquiry in 1946 ( Lewis-Faning 1949 ) ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 6 | Aims were defined , certain statutory regulations laid down and five officers elected for the first three-year term . |
| 7 | He carries the Staff of the Patriarchs made for the first Supreme Patriarch Volans by the warrior mage Fredrick von Tarnus after the Great War against Chaos . |
| 8 | At least one of them surfaced , rifle in hand , as an officer in the Palestinian forces to fight against the first Israeli invasion a year later . |
| 9 | Tanagra tried to replace Thebes as informal hegemon of the league in mid-century , but it was on Thebes that Sparta 's plans centred in the First Peloponnesian War . |
| 10 | In 1941 , the French Police cooperated in the first mass internments on French soil . |
| 11 | The issue brings together the main papers presented at the first Latin American consultation of representatives of theological seminaries who met together in July 1990 to discuss the role of communication and theology in their institutions . |
| 12 | When implemented this will complete the initiatives introduced by the first General Directive . |
| 13 | They always had to do them on Boxing Day , so that the letters went into the first possible post after Christmas . |