Example sentences of "take [noun] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another famous event is the Car Rally ( Rally Vinho da Madeira ) which takes place on the first weekend in August . |
| 2 | Steps one and two takes place at the first appointment and steps three and four at the second . |
| 3 | The dead material is left to dry , is then burnt and left to cool ; planting in the fertilizing ash takes place after the first rain . |
| 4 | COMPETITORS from all over the country will take part in the first North Wales regional tennis centre wheelchair tennis tournament at Wrexham this week . |
| 5 | This would tie in with the kind of creature that could take advantage of the first abundance of flowering plants and special insects emerging in the late Cretaceous . |
| 6 | The next day was Thursday , and that , as the whole of Miss Honey 's class knew , was the day on which the Headmistress would take charge of the first lesson after lunch . |
| 7 | To mark the occasion , a commemorative tree-planting ceremony will take place on the first day of the championships . |
| 8 | This may take place at the first meeting with the client , though for larger assignments a site visit and access to confidential material may be necessary before such an assessment can be properly made . |
| 9 | This may take place at the first meeting with the client , although for larger assignments access to confidential material may be necessary before such an assessment can be made . |
| 10 | If the maritime portion does not take place in the first leg of the journey , the transport document can not attest to a loading on board the vessel when , in fact , the goods are only on board a truck or railroad car . |
| 11 | Spain and Portugal took part for the first time , having signed accession protocols on Nov. 14 , 1988 ( see pp. 36105-06 ; 36429 ) . |
| 12 | Among other multilateral contacts , Albanian delegations took part for the first time in a range of regional meetings , including a conference of Mediterranean chambers of commerce in April and one on Mediterranean water sources in May . |
| 13 | The Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) won 28 per cent and 26 seats , the right-wing National Conciliation Party ( PCN ) 9 per cent and nine seats and the left-wing Democratic Convergence ( CD ) 12.2 per cent and eight seats , although earlier estimates had suggested that the CD , which took part for the first time in a legislative election , had overtaken the PCN into third place . |
| 14 | Ten teams took part in the first race in 1975 , and they all enjoyed themselves so they thought they would do it again the following year . |
| 15 | The EC commissioner for external affairs , Frans Andriessen , who took part in the first stage of the negotiations in New York last Friday , will report on progress to Community foreign ministers in Luxembourg today . |
| 16 | Ninety-two competitors took part in the first walk on Whit Monday the 1st June 1903 , one of the first all-amateur walking events to be held in England . |
| 17 | A number of countries which were suspected ( principally by the USA and other Western countries ) of developing chemical weapons-including Libya , Iraq and Syria-were among a total of 22 countries taking part for the first time in the committee 's deliberations since the opening of the spring session , albeit as observers . |
| 18 | Disabled people from twenty one countries are taking part in the first wheelchair games of its kind . |
| 19 | His funeral took place during the First Test at Trent Bridge , with South Africa the tourists : play was halted as a tribute to the man whose valet helped him to contrive county cricket 's most amazing victory . |
| 20 | The Bramham Three Day Event took place for the first time in 1974 . |
| 21 | The prestigious event , at which leading scientists discuss global environment , took place for the first time this year , in Rio de Janeiro . |
| 22 | The first of these would imply that Scaevola regarded the trust clause as ineffective ; the second that it was effective but limited to legal events which took place before the first will . |
| 23 | Further modifications and addenda took place in the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 24 | The first major privatization debate ( as we would now call it ) in this country took place in the first decade of this century . |
| 25 | The work mostly took place in the first year base , which was described as : " a large hall and four small rooms each capable of taking a group of twenty . |
| 26 | This is not to say that it was the consequence of the rise of Fordism ( i.e. , the changes that were taking place during the first half of the 20th century in capitalist methods of production ) . |
| 27 | Since the letting can not be conceived as existing before the event permitted gets under way , to is not used with let , just as it is not used with see because seeing can not be conceived as taking place before the first moment of the event seen . |
| 28 | Likewise , taking expectations of the first term on the right-hand side of equation ( 3.40 ) gives . |
| 29 | The social welfare regulation which is considered here … took shape during the first part of the twentieth century . |
| 30 | And in taking prey for the first time he had found courage . |