Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One ’ was a word of the Chelsea set for the first person singular , and one might perhaps venture the thought of a pun in the words of the inscription . |
| 2 | The CNAA knew from the first meeting of its sub-committee to discuss courses in education , in July 1965 , that the DES was moving towards a policy of teacher education in some technical colleges , and that the DES thought it reasonable that they should come to the CNAA for validation . |
| 3 | On Dec. 29 the HCR met for the first time since the attempted coup and approved the new Cabinet , whose membership was announced the following day . |
| 4 | It was therefore at the next Congress in August 1959 in Wiesbaden , Germany , that the BDDA participated for the first time as a member country with an official delegation of ten : Dr Eric Greenaway . |
| 5 | Earlier , the new Conflict Prevention Centre of the CSCE met for the first time in Vienna on July 1-2 , as requested by Austria , and called for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the JNA to barracks , but failed to reach the necessary unanimity on sending a CSCE observer mission . |
| 6 | Poor weather in the US contributed to the first fall in profit before tax at Tate & Lyle for 14 years . |
| 7 | Tickets for the original Cambridge and Birmingham gigs remain valid , while fans holding tickets for the London shows on the first , second or third nights must attend the equivalent evenings in January . |
| 8 | In 1961 , in the Commission 's administrative proceedings against a regulated broker-dealer in Re Cady , Roberts & Co , the SEC outlined for the first time the basis of the insider trading prohibition . |
| 9 | The basic age equation is : where the ‘ natural TL signal ’ is the TL measured on the first heating of a sample in the laboratory . |