Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Feb. 1 , 1990 , Saudi Arabia announced plans for the first electronic share dealing system in the Gulf , to be launched in April , which bankers said would revolutionize the market and attract many new investors . |
| 2 | Politicians described the panel 's proposals for the first major reform of the 35-year-old Fifth Republic 's constitution as modest . |
| 3 | Which is more than can be said of the successors of the first Labour government , elected just when the Elmhirsts arrived at the bankrupt farms and derelict buildings of Dartington . |
| 4 | What is less easy to explain is that all of these words seem to have been created as phonetic imitations of the first meaningful sound uttered by many babies . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) Give a simple description of the document : eg conveyance instead of indenture for old deeds , etc. ( 3 ) Give the names of the parties in the first abstracted deed , but where these recur ( as , for example , where a buyer becomes a seller , or where personal representatives become sellers ) give initials only , so that after the first deed the seller , etc , of an abstracted document will commonly be shown by initials and so indicate that there is an unbroken chain of title . |
| 6 | It was just by chance that I turned up at one of the early meetings of the first lesbian liberation groups in London and found myself involved in the early debates around socialist feminism , radical lesbianism , the Women 's Movement and the sixth demand which named women 's right to a self-defined sexuality . |
| 7 | The company sees campus-wide backbones as the first wide-scale implementation of the technology , followed by Asynchronous Transfer Mode to the desktop . |
| 8 | Psion , creators of the first personal organiser , have for some time made plug-in modules available to provide dictionary and other data facilities . |
| 9 | Frustration in urban areas over the first round defeat of the main opposition Democratic Party ( DP ) erupted into anti-communist rioting on the morning of April 2 in the northern city of Shkodër . |
| 10 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 11 | I waited two years for the first substantive response to one article despite reminder letters to the editor . |
| 12 | The placement was duly made , several years after the first formal contact . |
| 13 | This study shows that using a prognostic equation containing only three variables : encephalopathy , prothrombin time , and the number of blood units transfused within 72 hours , specific outcome ( survival or death as a result of liver failure or exsanguination ) within six weeks of the first variceal haemorrhage of cirrhotic patients could be predicted in at least 89% of the cases . |
| 14 | The good fits of the first growing season mortality regressions ( Fig. 2 ) were due to very similar patterns of mortality for all cohorts at each site ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 15 | In approximately one hour she would be getting her chops round the first succulent mouthful of Chicken Thallium . |
| 16 | Despite the fact that he was unable to begin the part of Sifare until 1 December when the singer arrived in Milan — only 25 days before the first scheduled performance — the première nevertheless took place , as planned , on 26 December , and the opera received another 21 performances that season . |
| 17 | Chenodeoxycholic acid and ursodeoxycholic acid , 7.5 mg/kg body weight , administered daily as a single dose at bedtime , were started 10 days before the first lithotripsy session and continued until the gall bladder was stone free for three months . |
| 18 | The first quarter was in 58.6sec , and this 17 years before the first four-minute mile . |
| 19 | Regulations restricting building in London were first issued by royal proclamation in 1580 , many years before the first statutory regulation . |
| 20 | Publications on theology and religious teaching methods were bestsellers at the first ecumenical book exhibition held in Taiwan , 15–23 February . |
| 21 | From the earlier analysis , the effect of the taxes via the first parenthetical term on the right-hand side of /8–57' ) depends on where we have used ( 8–48 ) and ( 8–49 ) . |
| 22 | OXFORD 'S David Penney was spot-on after 16 minutes with the first successful penalty of the season against Bristol Rovers . |
| 23 | There was a very significant breakdown of this structure of society which , in spite of its many material advantages , was one of the chief spiritual disadvantages of the first industrial revolution . |
| 24 | The dominant factor , in relation to poor housing conditions , lack of proper sanitation , food shortages and growing unemployment , was the fact that the country had just emerged from the horrors of the First Great War . |
| 25 | THE Pulitzer-prize winning author John Hersey , a Second World War correspondent who captured the horrors of the first atomic bomb attack in his book Hiroshima , died yesterday in Florida . |
| 26 | Toads hibernate during the winter , and become active again when the temperature rises to about 6°C , migrating to their breeding ponds with the first mild weather of the spring . |
| 27 | There is no order of hymns in the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 28 | There are many references to his opinions and jurisprudential decisions in medieval rabbinic literature , and there survive commentaries on the first mishnaic tractate of the Talmud ( Berakhoth ( benedictions ) ) and on the domestic service ( Haggadah ) for Passover eve written by him . |
| 29 | And the Press Council called senior editors to the first extraordinary meeting convened in its twenty-seven-year history to discuss the matter . |
| 30 | After lots of very interesting figures at the first big stopper of the Olympic Eiskanal , the winner was Boris Retzlaf . |