Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a deal of euphoria after the first night , the success of the missions , a certain element of surprise , but I did say at that time that we 'd be foolish to lower our guard , because erm there was still a lot of work to do , and that is exactly what it 's turning out to be , and we 're going for his military installations , and he 's got a lot of them , and it 's a wearing down process . |
| 2 | One national newspaper is offering a bottle of champagne for the first reader who can give more information about Norma 's former boyfriend . |
| 3 | The Act stated that other schemes could be formed from the schedule of twelve by advancing or postponing the day of payment of the first instalment , provided that the first payment was not made sooner than the eleventh day , and that not more than one penny per pound was added to the interest for every thirteen days of such postponement . |
| 4 | Pressnell suggests that only a brilliant speech by Keynes prevented its rejection in the Lords.The loan was damaging to British pride , while among its terms the insistence on sterling convertibility within a year of payment of the first instalment was particularly ominous . |
| 5 | It 's no more astonishing than was the growth of industrialisation in the first place . |
| 6 | Time zero is the time of admission to the first hospital . |
| 7 | I was lucky to be given a great deal of freedom with the first draft . |
| 8 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it signed a number of contracts during the first quarter of 1993 totalling $30m for AXE digital switching kit to extend the public telecommunications network in Liaoning Province , Peoples Republic of China . |
| 9 | OIL production by member states of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries dropped 900,000 barrels a day to 23.5m last month but remains well above the cartel 's target level of 22.9m for the first half , the International Energy Agency has said . |
| 10 | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia visited Baghdad at the end of March for the first visit by a Saudi monarch since Iraq 's Baathist revolution of 1968 . |
| 11 | Cats ' alert : Fire caused at least £10,000 of damage to the first floor of a house in Pannal Avenue , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough last night . |
| 12 | Even the bookmakers lost faith in the world champion who began the event without the status of favourite for the first time in three years . |
| 13 | All this raises the question of why the Reagan administration wants to quit the business of satellites in the first place . |
| 14 | Do so can not be replaced by a ‘ copy ’ of part of the first clause . |
| 15 | We 've seen that with the City technology colleges , which are nobody talks about , surprisingly enough , when we 've discovered that actually industry is n't remotely interested in them , and of course in the first year of an opted out school one might see a bit of palm crossing with silver . |
| 16 | Libra Bank , the London-based consortium bank which trades in third world debts , plunged to a pre-tax loss of £174.6m in the first half of 1989 from profits last time of £10.9m . |
| 17 | ‘ A share is the interest of a shareholder in the company measured by a sum of money , for the purpose of liability in the first place , and of interest in the second , but also consisting of a series of mutual covenants entered into by all the shareholders inter se in accordance with [ section 14 ] . |
| 18 | Of birds for the first time ever heard , |
| 19 | BERNHARD LANGER , his golf as meticulous as his preparation , added the virtue of patience in the first round of the Masters at Augusta National yesterday . |
| 20 | The gonococcus , a micro-biological master of male chauvinism , not only gives virtually no clues as to its presence in an infected female , but , should she attend a clinic or specialist for the purposes of diagnosis , it will only reveal itself m-some 50 per cent of cases at the first visit compared to well over 90 per cent of cases in males . |
| 21 | Similarly , responses to us in writing within six weeks of referral rose from 25% of cases in the first audit to 60% in the second . |
| 22 | really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders . |
| 23 | Sinatra stormed off of the set of Carousel on the first day of shooting because it was to be shot in both the new CinemaScope 55 format and the standard ‘ flat ’ ratio , meaning everything had to be shot twice . |
| 24 | Other cases have established the principle that a stronger case is needed to justify action to bring about the discontinuance of a use than would be needed to warrant a refusal of permission in the first instance . |
| 25 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 26 | The influx of recruits after the First World War made conditions at George Square inadequate and some of the staff returned to offices in the Sheriff Court Buildings , the site of which is now occupied by the Scottish National Library . |
| 27 | Students have the opportunity to study a broad range of subjects in the first year including economics , law , accounting , information processing and statistics . |
| 28 | First , an objector might try to press the fashionable distaste for the first-person perspective and say that the fact that I can not apply the theory to myself shows nothing except that one should not approach the philosophy of mind via the first person . |
| 29 | I have also mentioned the question of indictment after the first court appearance , and other hon. Members have suggested other means to tackle the problem . |
| 30 | For glutamine the rate of metabolism in the first hour was 5.1 ( 1.1 ) nmol/µg protein , 4.6 ( 2.2 ) nmol/h/ µg protein over two hours , and 4.3 ( 1.0 ) over three hours ( p<0.0001 for linearity test ) . |