Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun prp] [prep] [art] 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 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 .
5 This , obviously , is the place from which to inspect the western Pyrenees for a first time or , given the summary quality of the prospect , from which to take leave of them before driving north .
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