Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [prep] the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the authors of the first of five volumes which are expected to appear in quick succession in the next eighteen months and catalogue the complete work of Magritte , his paintings , collages , gouaches , drawings , objects and sculpture , but exclude his designs for advertising posters and other commercial activities . |
| 2 | With players like Stephen Martin , Kenny Morris , Billy McConnell , Alan Roper , Geoff Clarke , Stephen Smyrl and Martin Deery all sidelined for various reasons , it seemed that Holywood would n't seriously test the visitors in the first of their three weekend games against leading Ulster opposition . |
| 3 | But I did also say to Mrs , that a new head would be appointed to take the imports from the first of September , that it might be better to discuss it with them after I 've discussed with Miss . |
| 4 | Rory Gallagher has decided to put the boot into the bootleggers with the first in a series of live concert recordings . |
| 5 | No transfers fell under the defective provisions , and the amendments in the first of the 1993 Finance Bills will be effective from 17 July 1992 . |
| 6 | The Provos in the first of several warnings said the device had a 20-minute timer . |
| 7 | Gloucester 's slalom racing team took to the slopes for the first in August coach Chantelle is a former all England champion |
| 8 | Their most ancient forebears were connections of the echinoderms , but their cousins , much more unexpectedly , became the ancestors of the first of the backboned animals , the vertebrates . |
| 9 | Four Australians , for example , above a road to Three Spurs and halfway Up a steep hillside , once knocked out most of the men in the first of two trucks passing below the patrol . |
| 10 | This respondent echoed the thoughts of the first by concluding that ‘ … it looks as if he 's played around in the paint , trying to create something — or he 's got confused and mixed everything up and something just happened ’ . |