Example sentences of "with the [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And new hope — ‘ utopian expectations ’ according to one report — arose again following the announcements on 16 June that the long-awaited retaliation had begun with the firing of the first VI missiles on London and parts of southern England . |
| 2 | The first change occurred in 1976 when the International Monetary Fund imposed reductions on public expenditure , and the second with the election of the first Thatcher government in 1979 . |
| 3 | The fast-food revolution arrived in style in October 1980 with the opening of the first Casey Jones restaurant at Waterloo . |
| 4 | Opera soon ceased to be a severely intellectual form of art and with the opening of the first public opera-house in Venice in 1637 it ceased to be an exclusively aristocratic one , though it seldom flourished without princely or aristocratic support . |
| 5 | It went with the sacking of the first violin , Marie-Alexandre Guenin ( 1744–1835 ) , who had led since 1783 . |
| 6 | The implication is that Pope John sided with the minority at the first session and was ‘ upset ’ ( as the minority often asserted ) at the rejection of such excellent drafts . |
| 7 | On Oct. 17 , 1989 , the PAN voted with the PRI for the first time to pass an electoral reform bill . |
| 8 | Napoleon III was occupied not only with these diplomatic endeavours but also with the mounting of the first great Universal Exhibition to be held in the French capital . |
| 9 | She stayed with the Cohens for the first seven or eight years of Leonard 's life . ) |
| 10 | In the light of this planning for the introduction of the new Honour School of Computation in October 1994 is proceeding , with the provision of the first necessary additional posts and other resources . |
| 11 | A more sophisticated form of vernacular religious music of the Counter-Reformation was the madrigale spirituale which began to flower in 1581 with the publication of the first book of Madrigali spirituali a cinque voci by the Imperial Kapellmeister Philipp de Monte ( 1521–1603 ) , another Italianized Fleming . |
| 12 | A first thing 's being required for a second is consistent with the possibility of the first thing 's happening and the second not happening . |
| 13 | The general occupational picture of black sportsmen 's parents is consistent with the rest of the first generation Caribbeans in the UK and as nearly all of them came from the West Indies ( mostly from Jamaica , but others from Dominica , Antigua , St Kitts , St Lucia , Montserrat and Guyana and fewer still from Trinidad , Nevis and Barbados and a small number from West Africa ) this is not unusual . |
| 14 | The CD market in London started in 1967 with the issue of the first US dollar CD ( that is , it was strictly the euro-CD , ECD , market ) . |
| 15 | However , their ability to tangle with the issue in the first place , and their success in doing so , will give them confidence to face those struggles when they arise again . |
| 16 | In either case , set up scaffold boards parallel with the position of the first length so you can walk safely across the room at a convenient height . |
| 17 | The information on a modern laser disc ( often called ‘ compact disc ’ , which is a pity , because the name is uninformative and also usually mispronounced with the stress on the first syllable ) is digital , stored in a series of tiny pits , each of which is either definitely there or definitely not there : there are no half measures . |
| 18 | One main street , set roughly at right angles , ran north and south from it ; its northern arm , possibly Flavian in date , aimed at the southern end of the modern High Street where the south gate of the fortified centre was probably later established ; a slight shift towards the west in its alignment in the late second century may have coincided with the construction of the first defences . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ They came to us with the scheme in the first place . |
| 20 | This disenfranchising policy will be taken a stage further in the political domain , with the linking for the first time for fifty years of the right to vote with the payment of contributions to local government exchequers . |
| 21 | There must be another language , dealing with the structure of the first and possessing a new structure about which one can not say anything except in a third language — and so forth . |
| 22 | Perhaps physical geography has been overtly concerned with the parallel to the first law rather than proceeding to the equivalent of the other three ! |
| 23 | The reason why so many books and articles on the 1931 crisis end with the formation of the first National Government is that their authors are still obsessed by the time-worn and stale debates about Ramsay MacDonald 's supposed ‘ betrayal ’ of Labour , about a hypothetical ‘ plot ’ , and about the ‘ bankers ’ ramp' . |
| 24 | Experts have exploded the old wives ' myth that , if he decided to play away , there must have been something wrong with the relationship in the first place . |
| 25 | Gunthorpe with the exception of the first ten pegs which are giving 10 to 15 lb of roach the rest appear devoid of fish , Shelford for fish around Stoke Ferry land end and pleasure anglers getting 30 lb plus nets on stick and maggot . |
| 26 | Recent work delineating the LFA-1 binding sites in the first two domains of ICAM-1 ( refs17,18 ) indicate the importance of the residues Asp26 , Glu34 , Gly46 and Gln73 in domain I. With the exception of the first , these residues are found in ICAM-3 . |
| 27 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |
| 28 | It took Daphne several attempts to explain what ‘ riding to hounds ’ actually meant , though she had to admit that even Eliza Doolittle would have been hard pushed to understand fully why they bothered with the exercise in the first place . |
| 29 | The optimist would point out that the aggregate attendance for the two Tests so far — 31,310 — compares very favourably with the aggregates for the first two Tests of 1980 ( 17,977 ) , and 1985 ( 28,097 ) . |
| 30 | As part of the work associated with the preparation of the first Road Safety Plan , an analysis of road accident data was carried out on a number of areas eligible for Urban Aid grant . |