Example sentences of "the [noun sg] for the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contract for the first of these smaller cutters was given to Brooke Marine Shipyard at Lowestoft . |
| 2 | Campbell Park , Milton Keynes , is the venue for the first of what the organisers hope will become an annual British Kite Festival . |
| 3 | During the years that the Uganda syllabus panels were meeting , the Lake Victoria Hotel , Entebbe was chosen as the venue for the first in a series of international workshops which heralded a new approach to curriculum development , a new dimension for pan-African co-operation and whose eventual product , the Entebbe Mathematics , proved to be possibly the most influential curriculum project yet to be launched in English — speaking Africa . |
| 4 | The minute for the first of April begins " In the spring of the present year a few friends convened themselves together for the purpose of considering the possibility of opening a News & Reading Room . " |
| 5 | Success for Bonallack was not to be long delayed , for in 1961 he won the championship for the first of what was to be five times , the fifth being at Royal Co Down in 1970 , the last occasion on which it was held in Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | After the two men had shaken hands she thankfully escaped , leaving them to talk while she went out to prepare the treatment-room for the first of the morning 's patients . |
| 7 | That meeting , which could occur as early as two weeks ' time , will then declare at least a three-month gap in meetings to fulfil the Unionist precondition for talks and clear the way for the first of a three-stage set of inter-party and inter-government negotiations to prepare a new British-Irish Agreement . |
| 8 | On a recent flight over the area a crane was to be seen alongside the existing hangars , and the timber-framing for the first of the new houses was already taking shape . |