Example sentences of "of the [noun] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | In the event , Israel walked out of the talks on the first day in protest at the presence of the head of the Palestinian delegation , Mohammed Hallaj , director of the Washington-based Centre for Policy Analysis on Palestine and a former member of the Palestine National Council ( PNC — the Palestinian " parliament-in-exile " ) . |
2 | Only thus can the selection and ranking of candidates be rationally managed , the nomination of the second candidate being approved in full awareness of the selection of the first , the nomination of the third being approved after the selection of the first two , and so on . |
3 | From the earlier analysis , the effect of the taxes via the first parenthetical term on the right-hand side of /8–57' ) depends on where we have used ( 8–48 ) and ( 8–49 ) . |
4 | Occhetto , leader of the PCI since 1988 , narrowly failed to secure the necessary 274 votes for election as secretary of the PDS in the first round of voting by the new party 's national council on Feb. 4 , mainly due to the absence of 132 members . |
5 | Details of the transactions for the first month are given below . |
6 | Details of the transactions for the first month are given below . |
7 | The presence in the orchestra of the composer of the first , showed just what happy family occasions these youth concerts have become . |
8 | It suggested that second marriages would substantially infringe the rights of inheritance of the members of the first family . |
9 | Environmental engineer Andrew Olleveant , who was one of the members of the first group , had a number of key issues to cover during his trip to Russia . |
10 | The summit was originally called by Charles Haughey , the Irish Prime Minister and President of the Council for the first six months of 1990 , to discuss the Communities ' response to the prospect of German unification and to the rapid changes in the rest of Eastern Europe . |
11 | Teenager Stephen McAteer scored a remarkable maximum of 100 points from all five judges to bring the All-Ireland Under-19 title out of the country for the first time . |
12 | Unionists had easy openings on defence issues , for many Unionist MPs were ex-officers , but the experience of the country in the first two years of War suggests that their criticisms were not exaggerated . |
13 | In psychological terms , when a speaker of one language learns a second there is a tendency to generalise some of the rules of the first language to the second language ; when these rules conflict with the correct rules for the second language there is interference , sometimes known as L1 interference or mother-tongue interference . |
14 | Since the object of the session in the first place was to play a part in helping the patient to deal successfully with a problem which has been troubling him , provided the session fulfils that role we do not need to worry unduly about whether it was a real regression experience or not ( although , as I have already stated , I feel quite strongly that the majority of cases are indeed genuine ) . |
15 | Another fall put him out of the reckoning in the first heat , but an eighth and a sixth were good enough to earn seventh overall . |
16 | Most spectacular was the televising of the Illuminations for the first time in 1951 , using toastrack 166 . |
17 | Geology comprises one third of the curriculum in the first two years of study . |
18 | She felt her stroke was due to the fertility drugs she had taken before each pregnancy , rather than to the childbirth itself : for the fifth pregnancy she had received injections of the drugs for the first time . |
19 | An articulate Inspector of Accidents who has personal experience of these matters is possibly better able to make an assessment of such things than a lawyer who has little more experience than turbulence in flight spilling some of the champagne in the first class section of the cabin . |
20 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
21 | Erm the cleaning of the carpets on the first and second floors erm they obviously fumigate them erm , but we do n't do the dry clean like we do the carpets over here . |
22 | The teaching of the Catechism on the first Sunday of each month at an afternoon School was also proposed . |
23 | We have already considered some of the evidence for the first prediction . |
24 | Even the most perceptive of critics of the literature of the first World War , Paul Fussell , has totally ignored Williamson 's most important work on this theme . |
25 | But does Oxford need any more visitors — particularly those seduced by the dreaming spires of the detective with no first name ? |
26 | This effort , as far as the administrative machinery was concerned , was initiated by the French advisers who came to Spain in the early years of the century with the first Bourbon king , Philip V ; later it was encouraged by Choiseul , who saw in the effective mobilization of the resources of his ally the means to defeat England and lay the foundations of a Franco-Spanish world power . |
27 | Along with this has often gone a general rejection of the idea of a First Philosophy , more secure than , or prior to , the sciences , and an acceptance of the naturalistic doctrine that a philosophical account of knowledge should be permitted to use empirical information drawn from the sciences . |
28 | In the A major Quartet , among 20-odd entrances of the complete theme ( with the upbeat ) , twice Mozart wrote a stroke : at the start of the development for the first violin , four bars later for the imitative entrance of the cello , but not for the similar entrance in between , of the middle strings . |
29 | From these summarized findings it is possible to derive tentative profiles of the activities of the first three teams . |
30 | One source said : ‘ He gave an undertaking to the DDRB in his submission last week that we will monitor very closely the effects of the contract in the first year . |