Example sentences of "by [art] [noun pl] in the first " in BNC.

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1 The French continued to feel excluded from the topmost " allied " table of defence planning , and understandably feared that their territory was regarded as expendable by the Anglo-Saxons in the first phase of a war .
2 The evil ‘ Mother ’ is now transferred to the opposite side and is the Mother of all the Aliens , hinted at by the eggs in the first film .
3 Dr Runcie repeated his offer of a limited primacy , involving the limited powers exercised by the popes in the first few centuries of the Christian Church .
4 Since criminal investigations are conducted by the police in the first instance , the police file tends to shape the case in all its subsequent stages .
5 Only around Rbs18,500 million out of a required Rbs54,000 million had been contributed by the republics in the first quarter of the year [ for passage in January of 1991 union budget see p. 37970 ] .
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