Example sentences of "in the first [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is well known that I disliked what was in the first three-year letter of intent , but I wholly approved of the principle . |
| 2 | Participation of over 80 per cent of the workforce was reported in some areas , in the first general strike in Italy since May 1989 . |
| 3 | The Human Rights Protection Party ( HRPP ) , led by Prime Minister Tofilau Eti Alesana , was returned to power on April 5 in the first general election under the country 's recently introduced universal adult suffrage . |
| 4 | In the first general election to the Grand National Assembly , in November 1983 , ANAP , led by Özal , won a decisive victory over the Nationalist Democracy Party , which was backed by the military . |
| 5 | In the first practical sign of a cooling of passions , the old Soviet flag was restored as an interim measure to about 20 ships of the fleet , which on Wednesday had hoisted the Russian ensign of St Andrew . |
| 6 | In the mining region of Asturias , however , it developed into a full-scale revolt involving not only UGT workers but also , in the first practical manifestation of the ‘ Workers ’ Alliance' , the CNT and the Communists . |
| 7 | This was demonstrated in the first political crisis of wartime , a carry over from peacetime . |
| 8 | Our diagnostic efficiency is shown by a diagnostic yield in the first endoscopic session of 82% ; further sessions were needed in the rest of patients mainly because of non-removable blood clots . |
| 9 | In the first annual report of the medical superintendent it was reported that it had not been necessary to use the padded cell on any occasion , despite the fact that many patients had been admitted handcuffed , leg iron locked or bound with cords and chains . |
| 10 | The background to the Essex initiative is described in the first annual report for 1981–1982 ( Taylor , 1983 ) as follows : |
| 11 | Farming history was made when a bunch of 10 Charolais steers grossed £17,000 in the first satellite-television auction of prime meat on the hoof . |
| 12 | NEW YORK — The UN Secretary-General , Javier Perez de Cuellar , plans to send a 625-member peacekeeping force to Central America in the first serious test of the regional peace agreement signed in August . |
| 13 | In the first serious clash since the coup , the army , now given a broader mandate to destroy the Marxist Sendero Luminoso ( " Shining Path " ) guerrillas , on April 28 moved into the Raucana shanty town on the outskirts of the capital Lima , run as a " model " Sendero development ; one person was killed and over a dozen more seriously wounded . |
| 14 | and the resourceful Jeeves Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry find themselves back in New York in the first new episode of the new and final series of Jeeves and Wooster beginning on I T V this week . |
| 15 | He remembered how fondly Jane had said farewell after her anger had abated , and the memory made him lift his hand to see , in the first creeping light of dawn , the small smear of rouge that still remained on his forefinger . |
| 16 | In the first dark pool under the hollowed bank the steady , rolling eddies went placidly round and round , smooth as cream , their tension dimpling the centre into a slow , minor whirlpool . |
| 17 | They are based on notions of the future as envisioned in the first major exposition of the 1930s in America Chicago 's 1933 ‘ Century of Progress ’ . |
| 18 | Sept. 13 : In the first major realignment within the EMS since 1987 the Italian lira is effectively devalued by 7 per cent . |
| 19 | NORTH-EAST politicians clashed yesterday over the health service in the first major debate of the election campaign . |
| 20 | Yet from the first the doctrinaire employment of recitative was tempered by occasional songs , dances , and instrumental pieces ; and in the first real masterpiece of the new genre , Monteverdi 's Orfeo of 1607 , the element of vocal melody — even virtuosity — bulked much more considerably . |
| 21 | Earlier , in the first systematic exposition of his new conception , Marx ( Marx and Engels , 1845–6 ) indicated four stages of development in the division of labour and the forms of property , in European societies , from tribal property to the communal and state property of antiquity , then to feudal or estates property , and finally to modern capitalist property . |
| 22 | On Sept. 25 , in the first official comment on the affair , Vellayati in New York denied the allegations currently gaining wide currency in the United States that Iran had negotiated with campaign officials of the Republican party to delay the release of the US diplomatic hostages on the eve of the 1980 presidential elections [ see pp. 38327-28 ] . |
| 23 | In the first official recognition of the extent of the outbreak , Dr Douglas Fleming , deputy director of the Birmingham research unit of the Royal College of General Practitioners , said there is now a ‘ substantial epidemic ’ which is likely to get worse . |
| 24 | In the first legal case of it 's kind in an English court , a man 's been accused of raping his wife . |
| 25 | ‘ I might have died , you mean , ’ said Julia in the first lawyerly voice of her convalescence and then was sorry when she saw his face . |
| 26 | Czechoslovakia goes to the polls this month in the first democratic election since 1946 . |
| 27 | As has been said , ‘ We love in as much as love was present in the first great affair of our lives ! ’ |
| 28 | Eric , I reported to the C E C on Saturday night when presenting the , the Health Service Conference report , that I would be making a detailed report to the next er , meeting of the Public Services Section Committee on resources er , on what I see in the first five month of my er , ten year of office er , what , what we need to do , to play our part in the public service , to extend ourselves within the er , the Health Service . |
| 29 | In the first comprehensive study of intestinal function in patients with diarrhoea caused by chronic radiation enteritis , we have shown a high prevalence of abnormalities in intestinal transit and absorption . |
| 30 | Relations between Egypt and Israel , already strained by differences over the Middle East peace process , deteriorated further after the arrest of four Israeli citizens accused of spying for the Jewish state in the first such case since the signing of the Camp David peace accords between the two countries in 1978 [ see pp. 29654-60 ] . |