Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HGCA figures for the first half of the 1992–93 season show Ipswich exporting ten per cent of all British wheat . |
| 2 | The right results could see the East Anglians overhaul faltering favourites Blackburn Rovers for the first time . |
| 3 | The effects of this move were that in 1990 Hungary 's trade with the European Communities ( EC ) was expected to exceed that with Hungary 's COMECON partners for the first time . |
| 4 | Between them , Worcester men in the first half of the seventeenth century had at least 100 different occupations . |
| 5 | More than 50,000 passengers used Braathens services in the first year more than double the airline 's predictions . |
| 6 | Since the election of the Tory Government of 1979 , which allowed the pound to rise on the back of North Sea oil in the early eighties and left British industry defenceless in the face of foreign competition , or ( according to your point of view ) exposed its inefficiency ( Vic inclines to the first view , but in certain moods will admit the force of the second ) , one-third of all the engineering companies in the West Midlands have closed down . |
| 7 | There was also a major upset in Ballymena , where the DUP lost control of the council to the Ulster Unionists for the first time in 15 years . |
| 8 | Fielding candidates for the first time in 1987 , it had a PV of 11.8 , but a PS of only 8.4 . |
| 9 | The oldest European trees seldom exceed 700 or 800 years , so that European explorers seeing California redwoods for the first time were awestruck by their size and age . |
| 10 | We can not have a Briton winning the US Masters for the first time again , nor a Briton putting the green jacket on yet another Briton for the first time again . |
| 11 | Danny Webster came out of retirement to join the Farnborough locals in the first comp there . |
| 12 | Particular studies , such as that by Karl Llewellyn of sales cases in the New York courts in the first part of the nineteenth century , underline that ‘ mercantile mindedness ’ lead to particular outcomes . |
| 13 | Acting as Port Agent for P&O Cruises for the first time , Ellerman & Bucknall were responsible for a range of activities all aimed at ensuring a trouble free visit for Canberra in both Durban and Cape Town . |
| 14 | RVS was a master printer and an amateur pianist , the latter facility enabling him to help out a friend who was touring the Glasgow districts before the First World War with a projector and a bag full of short silent films . |
| 15 | This can be clearly seen in Fig. 2 d obtained by a direct transform of LEED I-V spectra in which a non-normal incident beam was directed along the axis between the O atom and one of Ni atoms in the first layer . |
| 16 | That 's easy to believe when you see the joy on these children 's faces as they meet Disney characters for the first time . |
| 17 | In February a ceasefire was established after King Hassan met Polisario leaders for the first time . |
| 18 | This course is based on Scotvec modules for the first year . |
| 19 | It is currently in beta test and is scheduled for general release on HP-UX systems in the first quarter of 1993 , CA says . |
| 20 | Despite the efforts of hordes of gluttonous ants who dined on much of the grass seed , the first game on the first Spanish cricket ground was played there on Saturday , January 11 and the club hosted the Inter-Island Balearic Championships over the first weekend of May . |
| 21 | Interested parties are now not expecting quantity shipments of 40Mhz Sparc Vikings until the first quarter . |
| 22 | But the states of western Europe were now being driven by harsh experience if by nothing higher to aim at something more than the chaotic free-for-all which had marked the Italian wars and the Habsburg–Valois struggles of the first half of the sixteenth century . |
| 23 | PAKISTAN 'S Jahangir Khan yesterday continued his great comeback from injury with a 17-15 , 15-7 , 15-7 win over England 's Tony Hands in the first round of the Hong Kong Open squash Championship . |
| 24 | MIPS expects 10,000 to 20,000 chips to go to early NT adopters from the first half of next year , increasing to around 100,000 in 1994 as NT gets more broadly accepted . |