Example sentences of "[noun prp] [unc] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | TUESDAY 'S play in the first round singles events having been rained off were played yesterday in the 31st Dun Laoghire Bowling tournament in Dublin . |
| 2 | O'Hara knocked on Meredith 's door during the first interval . |
| 3 | Arsenal 's mastery of the First Division was already making them the best-loved , best-hated club . |
| 4 | When Hungary 's ruler after the first world war , Admiral Horthy , defeated an attempt by Zita and Karl to regain their throne , most Hungarians were not sorry . |
| 5 | Jefferson 's purpose in the First Amendment was to stop all future American lawmakers from making it a crime for people to criticise their own government . |
| 6 | Cards on the table , Gavrilov 's reading of the first movement of the Seventh Sonata is one of the finest I 've heard — very nearly as fine as Pollini 's ( DG ) . |
| 7 | The following quotation comes from Engels ' Preface to the first ( 1884 ) edition of The Origin of the Family , which was a kind of rewrite , in precis , of Morgan 's Ancient Society ( 1877 ) : |
| 8 | Lenin was very conscious of Marx 's warning that each war contains within it the seeds of a fresh war , an observation amply born out by the conflicts between France and Prussia-Germany in Marx 's lifetime and in Lenin 's time by the First World War . |
| 9 | Poor umpiring decisions against Smith , Hick and Salisbury , all adjudged lbw to balls drifting down the leg side , did not help England 's cause in the first innings . |
| 10 | ENGLAND 'S defeat in the first Cornhill Test has left them with even more problems than those produced by last winter 's disastrous tour of India . |
| 11 | Gooch was yesterday confirmed as skipper for the rest of Ashes series despite England 's defeat in the first Test . |
| 12 | BRADFORD and former Middlesbrough rider Gary Havelock has been chosen as England 's captain for the first Test of the new season against Australia . |
| 13 | I liked Thomson 's account of the First Symphony , too . |
| 14 | The first five notes of Clemens 's bass are indeed those of the plainsong eighth-tone Magnificat , but his superius is identical with that of Sermisy 's ‘ C'est une dure despartie ’ except that it does not follow Sermisy 's repeat of the first two phrases and does repeat his last phrase . |
| 15 | Gloria came to do Ruth 's hair on the first Monday of every month . |
| 16 | The immediate prelude to the revolution was Russia 's involvement in the First World War . |
| 17 | It was only the turmoil unleashed by Russia 's involvement in the First World War , the breakdown of imperial authority , of the army , and of the economy , which gave them their chance . |
| 18 | The controversy over the pre-war period revolves around five central questions : the likelihood of renewed rebellion by the peasantry ; the dynamics of working-class protest ; the prospects for the consolidation of the Empire 's middle classes into a formidable social and political force ; the solidity of the tsarist forces of repression ; and the effect of Russia 's entry into the First World War upon socio-political conditions in the Empire . |
| 19 | It was one of revolution and civil war , following on from Russia 's collapse during the First World War . |
| 20 | WOLVES winger Robbie Dennison has been recalled to Northern Ireland 's squad for the first time in a year . |
| 21 | Defender Tony Mowbray could return to Celtic 's side for the first time in ten weeks and silence speculation that manager Liam Brady is willing to sell the player . |
| 22 | The curtain went up on Charley 's Aunt for the first time at the Theatre Royal . |
| 23 | The German press disappeared after Germany 's defeat in the First World War , while the missionary press , though of some historical interest , did not give rise to publications of any major importance . |
| 24 | The ecologists ' leader Brice Lalonde , who has called for a broad-based ‘ Democratic Party ’ , welcomed Mr Rocard 's speech as the first admission by a top Socialist that the party was finished . |
| 25 | Later , after looking at the rest of the house , they returned to Edouard 's study on the first floor . |
| 26 | Underneath Melanie 's name in the first column , she wrote ‘ Lucretia Grant ’ . |
| 27 | Instead , James Norris , an American and the person who had put forward Barbara Ward 's name in the first instance , found himself having to deliver a special address , and in Latin , at six hours ' notice . |
| 28 | ‘ This trip was Kelly 's idea in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | Steadman 's contribution in the first half was restricted to three penalty goals . |
| 30 | He and Helen were blissfully happy , alone now in the house where they had lived with Helen 's mother for the first few weeks of their marriage . |