Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We include here some notes on the first production but subsequent directors may find many different ways of presenting the text . |
| 2 | Large areas of western Scotland , mid- and North Wales and the upland zones of the North and South West of England have exhibited population gains , in some cases for the first time in over a century . |
| 3 | In the event of trouble , many of the non-union operators now would have easier access — in some cases for the first time — to the political system and its protective police arm . |
| 4 | Along with the island 's hydro-electric scheme — bringing power to some houses for the first time — and the harbour improvements , the incident will probably go down in Shetland annals as another stage in Foula 's modernisation . |
| 5 | The British commander , Brigadier Andrew Cumming , 45 , said : ‘ This is a great boost for morale as we enter the last few furlongs of the first Operation Grapple tour . ’ |
| 6 | There are few survivors of the first Holocaust because the Turks tried to kill them all and because age has now claimed most of the rest . |
| 7 | Inflation , which fell in the second half of 1989 , rose in some countries in the first half of 1990 , was anticipated to increase further in 1990 due in part to oil price increases . |
| 8 | A second example involves an argument by means of which the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahé claimed to have refuted the Copernican theory a few decades after the first publication of that theory . |
| 9 | Few countries outside the First World have transferable currencies . |
| 10 | Few stations of the first generation survived the vast increase of railway traffic , but some did and they are well worth seeing Railways added a vast amount of detail to the English landscape , besides manipulating it at times on a large scale . |
| 11 | Michael Cohen also plans a major exhibition — 15 or 20 Nanking pieces , silver bars from the Dutch bullion ship Bredenhof , auctioned in 1986 , anything he can get from Vung Tau and , he hopes , a few pieces from the first Hatcher junk , which are the earliest of them all . |
| 12 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 13 | He was less prominent in the action than William Craig and he felt sufficiently distanced from it to be able to absent himself for a few days in the first week of the strike when he went to Canada to attend a funeral . |
| 14 | United have shown signs of nerves in the last few weeks as the First Division title race approaches its climax . |
| 15 | The proposal made some changes to the first paragraph of Security Council Resolution 598 , dealing with a ceasefire and the withdrawal of troops , in line with Iraqi demands . |
| 16 | A few suggestions for the first line : |
| 17 | It was but a few yards across the first field that he was attacked by three footpads . |
| 18 | ‘ We posed them quite a few threats in the first half , ’ said Graham Taylor , while conceding the second belonged to Liverpool . |
| 19 | He was also on many council committees , and chaired the committee which excluded some members of the first Protectorate Parliament . |
| 20 | The thrill of crossing the Knucklas viaduct with its castellated ends , some members for the first time . |
| 21 | She talked with him for nearly ten minutes , and as the officers drew her away , Walford snatched her hand and kissed it , ‘ some tears for the first time rolling down his cheeks ’ . |
| 22 | Cheap solar energy conversion has been a dream of some scientists since the first oil crisis back in the late 1970s . |
| 23 | If you change the colours every few rows on the first part of the ‘ turn ’ and reverse the colours on the second part , you get a circular change of colour which is quite marvellous — worth the effort of sewing in the ends ! |
| 24 | Give yourself a few lessons at the first opportunity . |
| 25 | The recruitment of colonial troops , mainly by the French who hoped by this means to offset the demographic superiority of the Germans ( a subject anxiously discussed in the 1860s ) , brought some others for the first time into a European environment . |
| 26 | Section headings which were found only in some chapters in the first edition have been extended through each chapter . |
| 27 | The managerial implications are profound in many ways but above all a management framework must be created which facilitates such relationships in the first place and then allows them to flourish . |
| 28 | You do not allow such advances in the first instance . ’ |
| 29 | Many people seemed to become aware of such things for the first time in their lives . |
| 30 | A bill revising the local autonomy law was passed in December 1989 , enabling political parties to field candidates for local parliament elections ; political parties soon agreed to hold such elections in the first half of 1990 . |