Example sentences of "the first [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He used to say that the first obligation as a sports writer was not to be in the least boring ; that you had to try and retain the excitement of the event in your writing — without taking liberties with the truth or manufacturing drama . ’ |
| 2 | The first two rounds were on the first day of the Championships , and I cruised them comfortably . |
| 3 | To mark the occasion , a commemorative tree-planting ceremony will take place on the first day of the championships . |
| 4 | Aware that the new contracts begin on April 27th , the first day of the schools ' summer term , the county will be publishing a new booklet timetable — ‘ Bordon , Whitehill and Liphook Connections ’ — giving information on bus services and linking train timetables due to be introduced on May 11th . |
| 5 | The court ruling was handed down on the 21st anniversary of the first day of the police siege of Red Army commandos at a hotel on Mount Asama , north of Tokyo . |
| 6 | And the brand new video that 's just in the shops , I think today is the first day in the shops , called Portrait Of A City , Nottingham nineteen ninety three . |
| 7 | Care programming may come fairly low down the list of priorities for social services , especially as the 1992/93 community care plans were likely to be preoccupied with the other community care reforms to be instituted by April 1993 ( National Council for Voluntary Organisations , 1992 ) and because the first year of the plans was experimental and so they were probably cautious in their aims . |
| 8 | Part of the answer probably lies in the attempt to maintain a ‘ steady state ’ in the first year of the reforms . |
| 9 | At the other end of the school , in the first year of the Halls , close links were established with the many primary schools ( some of them tiny ) which sent eleven-year-olds to the school , and the style of teaching for that first year was aligned as closely as possible with the more effective primary-school practices . |
| 10 | All pupils in the first year of the schools were included , ensuring that each group was sufficiently large to detect differences between the intervention and control groups of the same size as had been achieved in the original evaluation of the two interventions . |
| 11 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 12 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 13 | The incidence of wage queries has certainly reduced since summer , but the first test of the improvements made will be during the next up-man which is due in early 1993 . |
| 14 | He was also the first chairman of the colleges ' committee set up after the 1962 report of the commission on the relationship between the colleges and university , chaired by the first Baron Bridges [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | We used measurements of the seasonal course of indoor radon concentrations ( 296 houses , 51% of total housing stock ) to calculate the mean annual radon concentrations ( ca ) on the first floor of the houses : |
| 16 | On the first floor of the Tuileries , immediately above those of the Emperor , were the Empress 's apartments . |
| 17 | The discoverer — reputedly Ingolfur Arnarson after whom a fine peak near Þingvellir and Ingólfshöfdi is named — called the country ‘ Iceland ’ because of the ice he found there ; this created the first half-truth about the islands of the north . |
| 18 | The first members of the teams run up to the suitcases and put everything on , run round the back of the rest of the team and then take everything off and put it back in the suitcase before running back and touching the next member of the team who repeats the process . |
| 19 | One of the first houses in the goldfields was built to welcome them and the two children ; the roof was not on by the time they arrived but many miners joined in helping to complete it , the sight of two young Englishwoman being a delightful rarity . |
| 20 | The first lies in the passages in Purcell 's own handwriting . |
| 21 | Like the Common Law , the rules of Equity are judicial law , i.e. to find them we must look in the first instances to the decisions of the judges who have administered Equity . |
| 22 | Sherek recalled how nervous and agitated he seemed at the first reading with the actors — just as he had been when he had first shown the play to Sherek . |
| 23 | I think I 'm right in saying that she drew a very short straw and is the first reading in the Lords of the bill to privatise the railways . |
| 24 | ‘ Do you know that when , in her desperation , such a woman turns to the parish for relief , the first act of the authorities is to part her from her child ? |
| 25 | The first act of the leaders of what were now rival armies , at Perth and Stirling , was to arrange a truce , on May 29 ; almost as quickly , Mary of Guise broke its terms , by having the Mass restored in Perth . |
| 26 | Marion and her son had an agreeable high tea of poached eggs on toast , tea and cakes , went for a little walk along Old Compton Street and bought some gorgonzola and a pound of cherries before returning to the theatre for the evening show ; he was allowed to watch the first act from the wings before making his way back to Putney on his own . |
| 27 | This is clearly brought out by Maggi Darling , who has been successful in classifying the wares of different legions in the first century from the excavations at Gloucester , Usk and Wroxeter , where , in all three cases , there is a significant absence of black burnished wares . |
| 28 | The poets and critics had played a considerable part in stimulating and organizing the first manifestations of the Cubists , but the connections between Orphism and contemporary literature were stronger and more direct . |
| 29 | It was also the first opportunity for the Sandinistas to assess their opposition role after losing elections in February 1990 to the right-wing National Opposition Union ( UNO ) coalition of President Violeta Chamorro de Barrios [ see p. 37236 ] . |
| 30 | In Scotland , for example , the Master of Arts ( M A ) degree is normally the first degree in an Arts faculty , with Bachelor of Science ( B Sc ) being awarded in Science faculties ) . |