Example sentences of "by the [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before she was even elected to serve the people of this estate , Coun Ms Buttle was already threatening industrial action by the buses at the first public meeting we attended a year ago . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The inquiry was ordered into the Glasgow Paddock Selling Hurdle on December 12 , 1987 after allegations of interference by the riders of the first and second horses . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Consequently , a member state would be bound to authorise the registration of a vessel of nationals of another member state only if those nationals were entitled , in the light of those criteria , to benefit by the quotas of the first member state . |
| 6 | The lengthy section in the same report on the persecution of the Jews in Germany began by stating that what was currently taking place was the ‘ irresistible extermination of a minority ’ , comparable to the genocide against the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War but carried out in Germany against the Jews ‘ more slowly and in more planned fashion ’ , adding accurately that ‘ in reality a lawless situation has long prevailed , through which every act of force against the Jewish minority is sanctioned ’ . |
| 7 | The indigenous population , comprising Christian Armenians and Islamic tribesmen of mainly Central Asian , Turkish and Persian origin , were alternately subjected to periods of persecution and forced conversion ( or extermination ) , depending on whether Christian Russia or one of the Islamic countries was in control ; this culminated in the widespread slaughter and deportation of the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | An oppressively dominant all-American mother was followed by the horrors of the first world war and , later , the traumas of marriage to Dorothy Cavendish . |
| 10 | But the most tragic movement of population was one of emigration into Lebanon by the victims of the first European Holocaust , the Armenians . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There she told officers that she had been stripped , raped and abused by the men of the First Battalion . |
| 13 | 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 ] . |
| 14 | However , the result of the civil wars caused by the usurpations of the first two decades of the fifth century appears to have led to a considerable decline in the Roman , as opposed to a federate , army . |
| 15 | The old baroque inner city was dominated by the symbols of the first and second class estates ; the modern Ringstrasse by the symbols of the Third Estate . |
| 16 | ‘ I hope that they will be reassured by the results of the first phase of this study . ’ |
| 17 | The bad news is revealed partly by the results for the first half year and partly by the company 's prediction that its borrowings will only be down to half shareholders ' funds even at the end-of-year low point after the Christmas rush . |
| 18 | ‘ It sounds as if you want me to have a contract drawn up for signature by the parties of the first part . ’ |