Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] [prep] the 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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Details of the transactions for the first month are given below . |
| 4 | Details of the transactions for the first month are given below . |
| 5 | It suggested that second marriages would substantially infringe the rights of inheritance of the members of the first family . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Most spectacular was the televising of the Illuminations for the first time in 1951 , using toastrack 166 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | From these summarized findings it is possible to derive tentative profiles of the activities of the first three teams . |
| 12 | Perhaps we shall soon all reach the degree of brutishness and indifference of the soldiers of the First Empire . |
| 13 | Reminiscences of the trenches in the First World War or Stockton-upon-Tees in the twenties and thirties ( his favourite standbys ) did not fit the occasion . |
| 14 | Tolkien 's epic is more like a romantic reflection of pre-1914 British life and of those models of manly virtue he had once witnessed and cherished , it seems likely , in the grim camaraderie of the trenches in the First World War . |
| 15 | After all , it was the Budapest public who demanded the removal of the eye-sores in the first place . |
| 16 | DID YOU notice the unusual , if not unique , feature of the scorecards for the first Test between England and New Zealand at Christchurch ? |
| 17 | The electoral success of the Kadets in the First Duma owed little to their largely unsuccessful attempts to attract the support of peasants and workers . |
| 18 | The rent of the premises for the first week of £50 is paid . |
| 19 | It was found that 599 ( 56 per cent ) were classifiable as ‘ new cases ’ , that is , as not being known to any of the agencies in the first survey , and having no known first contact date with an agency prior to April 1985 . |
| 20 | At eight , still waiting by the window , a second bulletin corrected one of the reports from the first . |
| 21 | It was the licensing system and licensing controls , after all , which helped to foster Britain 's peculiar ‘ brewery tie ’ and concentrate pub ownership in the hands of the brewers in the first place ; and it was the same system which connived at and partly encouraged the modern contagion of open-plan pub designs . |
| 22 | In the remainder of the cases in the first two teams , either no service was offered , service was declined by the client , or the assessment was preempted in some way ( for example , by the client entering hospital ) . |
| 23 | Its leader was Miloš Obrenović , a man who had played a part in the Karadjordje revolt , but who had remained in Serbia when many of the leaders of the first rising had fled across the river to Austrian territory . |
| 24 | According to Yoichiro Yoda , of the AI Sales Section of Nichimen Data , the systems will be targeted initially at research and development environments , and the company hopes to sell 50 to 60 of the machines in the first year . |
| 25 | Following up some of the conclusions of the first CACE report ( see 1947 Clarke ) this inquiry considered ‘ the natural interests and pursuits of school children out of school hours ’ . |
| 26 | In between time as I say we 'd had 's header wide which was one of the mysteries of the first half . |
| 27 | If deaf people 's link to the hearing world and to the information distributed by the hearing world is faulty , then unless they have recourse to a second hearing person who can act as a check they will be unaware of the faults of the first hearing signer . |
| 28 | I had asked Chris to be President of the Friends before the first meeting . |
| 29 | This second possibility was the one I preferred , especially since I saw on reflection that such ripples might produce some of the effects of the first possibility . |
| 30 | Information from the drink diaries , based on a comparison of the averages for the first and the last three weeks of the course , revealed a shift from high to moderate drinking levels for males , that is , from 40 to 32 units per week . |