Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps characteristic that the best evidence for the appointment of household officers in the first half of the eleventh century should come from Normandy , which combined reverence for the Carolingian past with respect for efficiency to a degree unparalleled elsewhere . |
| 2 | Ltd. , Gomba Exim Ltd. , Routestone Ltd. , Rathbone Hotel Ltd. and Gomba Mansions Ltd. , were advanced substantial sums of money secured on a number of security documents by the first defendant , Minories Finance Ltd. , then known as Johnson Mathey Bankers Ltd . |
| 3 | They will be self-financing , since we aim to raise 20 billion by way of pollution taxes over the first five year of Government . |
| 4 | In our opinion , the quality of service measurements of the first and second class letter service for 1990/1991 have been correctly calculated and presented and have been derived from information obtained in accordance with the stated methodology and sampling programme . |
| 5 | Putting your feet into a pair of ski boots for the first time can be alarming . |
| 6 | This may easily be demonstrated by substituting only the products of Legendre functions of the first kind into the condition ( 7.15 ) , which can not then be satisfied . |
| 7 | Repayments of insurance policies within the first four years of the policy 's life ; |
| 8 | Probaby the most hopeful news is that Brazil , the world 's largest Catholic nation is going to put AIDS and sexual education onto the curriculum of state schools for the first time from February this year . |
| 9 | It has lost up to $3 billion of oil revenues in the first quarter of 1989 because a barrel of Dubai crude , the Middle-Eastern benchmark , now fetches $2.50-3.00 less than North Sea Brent — double the differential of a year ago . |
| 10 | Its sense of familiarity marks for the first time his ease within an international world of diplomacy . |
| 11 | Given that this calculation mainly consists of system savings foregone in the first year of Sizewell 's operation , less capital charges saved , the £60 million figure seems surprisingly high , given the limited value of system savings in the first year of operation . |
| 12 | He failed the end of year exams after the first year and changed his subject to sociology , in which he later attained a degree . |
| 13 | For example , if you were a first-year student at the University of Strathclyde Business School in Glasgow , Scotland , you would have a very wide range of class options within the first year of your BA degree course . |
| 14 | This redistribution of income , backed up by a similar strategy on wealth , has resulted in a widening of class differences for the first time since 1945 . |
| 15 | ( It is interesting to see that recent union negotiations may place the wages of such workers above those of refuse collectors for the first time . ) |
| 16 | To a certain extent these differences are common to all predators , and so may be ignored , because the reason for attempting the analysis of predator assemblages in the first place is to determine differences between them . |