Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun prp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Walker 's draft bye-laws were referred to a Sub-Committee — which in the event was elected the following December at the first Annual General Meeting . |
| 2 | According to the posters outside , the winter season would open the following Wednesday with the first performance of a new work , Leonore , by Ludwig van Beethoven . |
| 3 | Doctors have never found it easy to go along with reform and were dragged , kicking and screaming , into the Bevan-style NHS in the first place . |
| 4 | Our present rules for its determination ( see Appendix 3 ) , as set out in the Book of Common Prayer , follow the Roman tradition whereby Easter Day is the first Sunday after the first full moon following ( or on ) 21 March . |
| 5 | The best conjecture , backtracking the path of this cloud , is that it originated from an unobserved eruption either in Zaire in the middle of January or in the northern Pacific during the first half of January 1982 . |