Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun] of the first " in BNC.

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1 The Dorset Square Hotel is situated at the back of Baker Street in , as the name suggests , a charming old square , once the location of the first Lords Cricket Ground .
2 ( 8 ) Until the date of the first renewal of licences provisionally granted under subsection ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) above after those licences have been declared final , subsections ( 2 ) to ( 5 ) of section 30 of this Act shall have effect in relation to those licences with the substitution in subsection ( 3 ) of section 30 of a reference to one year instead of the reference to three years .
3 Medical opinion believed that early breast milk ( antigen-rich colostrum ) was harmful , and that feeding should be delayed until the passage of the first stools .
4 Thus Broda ( 1975 ) has suggested that until the significance of the first law of thermodynamics that heat is a form of energy , had been appreciated , and until energy distribution implications of the second law had been assimilated , then progress in the analysis of bioenergetical processes was uneven and patchy .
5 Up until the eve of the First World War resistance and insurrection , although limited , had persisted particularly in the wild hill country of the Sino-Vietnamese border and when the war began in 1914 and the reserves of power available to France , both French and Vietnamese , began to be drained off there was at least a local opportunity for revived resistance .
6 And it would n't have been until the development of the first cities that streetwalkers really started to come into their own 11,000 — 12,000 years later .
7 They swam for centuries in the sea below the cliffs , until the ringing of the first Christian bell changed them back into children and they drowned .
8 ( i ) Proponents of probabilistic analyses have it that two events can be cause and effect if the presence of the first raised the probability of the second from 0 to only 01 , or of course less .
9 If the point of the first suggestion is that Athens was in reality the preserve of a leisured upper class , that is simply untrue .
10 Comparison of the CONVEX-91 west section ( Fig. 1 ) with data from Erika Dan ( 1962 ) and Knorr ( 1983 ) in a similar fashion ( but on a 0.25° latitudinal grid ) shows that there has been marked cooling since 1962 , averaging -0.42°C , whereas since 1983 there has been no change , presumably because the effects of the first renewal of LSW had already reached the Irminger Basin .
11 B While the legends of the First Age are a ‘ calque ’ , then , their resemblance to a known pattern directs us primarily to difference from that pattern ; the elvishness of the elves is meant to reflect back on the humanity of man .
12 Since the publication of the first edition of this book , I have seen a remarkably similar rock of the same age — the Cupido Limestone — dominating the Mesozoic scenery in north-east Mexico .
13 The role of the scientific journal has not changed much in the 300 years since the publication of the first such journal , although greater dependence is placed on it than ever before , according to Osburn .
14 Even so , the advance of privatization was a notable shift in public debate , a great reversal of the growth of corporatism as it had rolled on , government after government , since the centralization of the First World War .
15 Up to 2,500 births a year in Britain result from artificial insemination by donor ( Teper and Symonds 1985 ) and since the birth of the first ‘ test tube ’ baby in 1978 there have been several hundred such births in Britain alone ( see Edwards 1983 ) .
16 Since the introduction of the first IBM 370 series processor in the late 70's , there has been a rapid growth in computerisation .
17 Of course , ever since the creation of the first ‘ grandes écoles in the eighteenth century , and the organization of ‘ I'Universite ’ by Napoleon , the state has been alma mater .
18 He produces the stories at a craftsmanlike rate , no more than one a year , so it is some time since the appearance of the first volume , Pig Earth .
19 We are pleased to state that since the appearance of the first edition of this book the Court of Appeal has at last seen sense in its approach to construction in cases involving general medical practitioners : see Clarke v Newland [ 1991 ] 1 All ER 397 .
20 Sumitomo Bank has stuck with NCR equipment for every generation of its banking systems since the implementation of the First Online system in the 1970s , and the defeat means that NCR now loses its last big customer account and one for which it maintained considerable investment in mainframes — even developing the 9800XL series , last of its mainframes — especially for Sumitomo .
21 It was a matter of considerable comment that only after the setback of the first ballot did Mrs Thatcher herself take the step of meeting backbenchers in the Commons tea room .
22 Stonehouse , also for Glasgow , was designated in 1972 , but after the building of the first houses , was aborted in 1976 : a vivid illustration of a change in priorities , for resources were to be channelled into the renewal of inner Glasgow ( the Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal — GEAR — scheme ) .
23 But after the disorientation of the first few seconds she had found herself entranced by the city below her spread out like a living map .
24 After the demise of the first national curriculum , the priority given to history in schools was dependent upon the continued dominance of the liberal academic tradition in education .
25 The Baldwin government which was returned to office in 1924 , after the collapse of the first Labour government , was committed to free trade , the gold standard and rationalization .
26 after the failure of the first implant , asked for the fourth embryo to be thawed and implanted .
27 So , I think we should say we are sceptical , and I think the paper puts it correctly er , we are sceptical of whether the reforms of the first consortium in fact , is going to meet the needs in terms of new health area and I know that time will come , they 're talking about the lot , it 's gon na wonderful and that the our economies should get all I can say is that the likelihood is the only f the area committee er , so that residents can comment managers , but since we 've already had a nine hundred percent increase in senior management in the health service in the past five years up from nine hundred to over ten thousand at a cost of fifty to two hundred and fifty million pounds I 'm rather sceptical about that one as well !
28 Its main function will be to ascertain whether the results of the first investigation would appear as firm to another team going over the same ground .
29 When the effect of one cell on another is directly by way of a modification of the synapse that the first cell makes on the second , this is known as a homosynaptic effect ; when the effect of the first cell on the second is modulated by the behaviour of a third cell synapsing on either of the other two , this is called a heterosynaptic effect .
30 When the results of the first ballot were announced Thatcher was in Paris attending meetings for the signature of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and of the Charter of Paris for a New Europe [ see pp. 37838-39 ] .
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