Example sentences of "to the [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the verderers ( or their heirs , if the verderers had died in the mean time ) failed to present their rolls to the judges on the first day of the Forest Eyre , or if their rolls were deficient in any material particular , they were liable to amercement . |
| 2 | Lehninger reverts to the aims of the first edition , which was to provide a text suitable for American students ; British students should begin first-year biochemistry with a better understanding of chemistry . |
| 3 | 2.7 If at any time any Works are carried out otherwise than in accordance with the Building Documents and this fact might [ reasonably ] have been expected to be apparent on visual inspection to the Surveyors on the first occasion following the carrying out of the relevant Works on which they actually inspected the same pursuant to clause 2.5 ( " Relevant Inspection " ) then unless within [ 5 ] working days after the date of the Relevant Inspection ( time being of the essence ) the Surveyors have served on the Architect a Defects Notice in respect of such non-compliance the relevant Works shall be treated for all purposes of this agreement as having been carried out in accordance with the Building Documents This provision should be deleted . |
| 4 | At this point , Alexander II quoted from Gregory 's replies to the questions of the first archbishop , Augustine , of which the full text is in Bede . |
| 5 | There was significant symbolic value attached to the talks as the first meeting in 30 years between Nelson Mandela , the ANC deputy president , and Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi , leader of Inkatha , who had once been fellow students at university , and were now the country 's two most influential black leaders . |
| 6 | Closing date is Wednesday , August 12 , and the prizes will go to the senders of the first two correct entries drawn . |
| 7 | So to while away those lonely winter nights , we 've arranged ( with Virgin Vision ) for 90-minute videos of red Ben live in action to go to the senders of the first 20 correct entries . |
| 8 | So to while away those lonely winter nights , we 've arranged ( with Virgin Vision ) for 90-minute videos of red Ben live in action to go to the senders of the first 20 correct entries . |
| 9 | They will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me the name of any one of the leading actors in the original 1939 film . |
| 10 | The prizes will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat revealing who played Superman and who played Thelma and Louise . |
| 11 | They will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me which detective was Basil Rathbone 's most famous screen character . |
| 12 | We have five £75 copies to give away and they will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat next Friday telling me on which American TV show Wayne 's World had its beginnings . |
| 13 | Prizes will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me either of the films for which Maggie won an Oscar . |
| 14 | We have ten volumes of those adventures to give away in our latest competition and they will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me the surname of the puppet-master producer behind the so-called ‘ Supermarionation ’ series . |
| 15 | But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction . |
| 16 | Accounts were submitted to the plaintiffs by the first defendant and the receivers . |
| 17 | Mortgage accounts having been submitted to the plaintiffs by the first defendant and by the receivers an order for various accounts and inquiries was made in Chancery chambers by Master Munrow on 14 March 1988 . |
| 18 | Yet even the padding , gliding , stooping bodies of his sisters , assisted by his mother , at the change from the hot food to the offerings of the first cherries , became visible and eloquent to Davide in his exclusion from the conference between the other older men and Tommaso . |
| 19 | To get to the Bungles in the first place needs a certain pioneering spirit as it involves a seven-hour drive from Kununurra , and the last three are over rough terrain that can be tackled only by four-wheel-drive vehicles . |
| 20 | Although Futurism succumbed to the ravages of the First World War and its surviving adherents were later to be put to flight by Mussolini , many of its observations and its leading artists , such as Severini , Picabia , Boccioni and Balla continue to inspire the main stream of modern art . |
| 21 | Of course , people might point to the generals in the First World War and say , rightly , that they were a bunch of ancient Blimps . |
| 22 | ‘ Tennis came back to the Olympics for the first time in Seoul , and maybe now that it is recognised again as an Olympic sport , it will become more important in East Germany . |
| 23 | The old zeks say that a man is weakest when he comes to the camps for the first time , when the desire for life is first squeezed from him . |
| 24 | This music , incidentally , was a vital influence in British and American bourgeois domestic song , an influence which can in fact be traced right through to the years after the First World War , in such singers as Al Jolson . |
| 25 | What the searchers ‘ found ’ were the papal letters mentioned by Lanfranc in 1072 , fortified with forged additions granting the primacy in perpetuity to the successors of the first archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 26 | The residuals are smoothed using the same recipe as before , and the results are added back to the results of the first smooth ; this is illustrated in exercise 9.1 . |
| 27 | The probability of the ‘ top ’ failure occurring is the sum of the values assigned to the events in the first level , and we can compute this if there are sufficient failure data to determine the latter directly ; if not then the analysis must proceed to lower levels of the tree . |
| 28 | Gloucester 's slalom racing team took to the slopes for the first in August coach Chantelle is a former all England champion |
| 29 | Instead , we left the truck conventionally positioned , and headed up through the forest leading to the slopes of the first top , Stob Coire na Ceannain . |
| 30 | He was used to seeing people with swollen jaws and pale nervous faces walking up these two flights to the rooms on the first floor . |