Example sentences of "arrival of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | All his life he had kept a diary ; it was a detached record of matters like the arrivals of the first migrants , the occurrence of various plant species in the Britches , and the prevailing weather . |
| 2 | The arrival of the first Class 60 Co-Cos in the autumn of 1989 would spell the wholesale demise of many thirty-year-old Class 20s , 31s , 33s and 47s . |
| 3 | Sir Antony , in a letter to Senator John Warner , who is the leading Republican on the Senate armed services committee , said that ‘ any withholding of productive funding … would have a knock-on effect which could delay the arrival of the first missiles for the Royal Navy , and continue to impose time and cost penalties on the British Trident programme ’ . |
| 4 | The renewed clashes came on the eve of the arrival of the first UN peace-keeping troops to Croatia . |
| 5 | Between the arrival of the first V1s and the V2s , Hitler himself experienced a serious attempt on his life , orchestrated by some of his military advisers . |
| 6 | Here is a special Times supplement , no less , devoted to the future recovery of Lebanon in which I write of the ships returning to Beirut port , of the re-opening of central banking facilities , the renovations at the temples of Baalbek , the arrival of the first postwar tourists — Swedes , of course — who were bussed off to the ruins of the Palestinian camp of Tel al-Za'atar and then to the Bekaa . |
| 7 | The sidings , which became known as Thornton Gate , opened with the arrival of the first coal train on September 23 1927 . |
| 8 | The realisation that the motivation of life is enjoyment , came into the evolutionary story long after the arrival of the first living cell . |
| 9 | A reporter from the Jewish Chronicle visiting Dovercourt a week after the arrival of the first Kindertransport had nothing but praise for the RCM . |
| 10 | For the first few months of 1952 flying concentrated on standardising the instructors and from February , with the arrival of the first B.2s , type conversion for the staff . |
| 11 | The influence of the cinema on children and young people provided a sharp focus for these anxieties , which had been aired since the arrival of the first silent movies . |
| 12 | A long time ago , Alice thought , as she heard the arrival of the first of Félix 's dinner guests , she and Harry had longed to be rich in order to buy themselves a house which they could share . |
| 13 | And the arrival of the first Its had inspired him , as it had Williams in Birmingham and Lloyd in Edinburgh . |
| 14 | Fifty years after the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove , JD Lang wrote of Australia 's Aborigines : ‘ ( we have ) despoiled them of their land , and given them in exchange European vice and European disease in every foul and fatal form … ’ |
| 15 | The book opens with a narrative passage evoking first the scenes in a typical day early this century , leading up to the arrival of the first train at Craven Arms , and then a poignant shorter evocation of the way things looked shortly after the closure . |
| 16 | The Republican militias were assisted in their efforts to defend Madrid by the discovery of a copy of the Nationalist plan of attack on the body of an Italian soldier ; a substantial delivery of Soviet arms , munitions and aircraft ; the arrival of the first contingent of International Brigade volunteers ; and the tenacity of the civilian population . |
| 17 | In the case of the Caribbean slave communities , this probably took only a short time : for example , we know that the emergence of Sranan Tongo , an English-lexified Creole spoken in the coastal region of Surinam , can be dated with reasonable accuracy to a period between the arrival of the first English slave-owning planters in the middle of the seventeenth century , and their expulsion by the Dutch : a total of less than thirty years . |
| 18 | With the arrival of the first Europeans , the Portuguese , the all-important spices were traded at source : pepper from the Malabar Coast of India , cinnamon from Sri Lanka and cloves , nutmeg and mace from the Moluccas . |