Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In 1985 , however , the Ministry of Agriculture took a first step towards meeting environmentalists ' objections , with a new ‘ Guidance for Drainage Authorities ’ on investment appraisal .
2 In a narrow sense my main interest is the period in which the Kaiser ruled over Germany , which of course includes the First World War .
3 Initialisation involves a change of handshape to represent the first letter of the English translation of the sign ( see chapter 6 ) .
4 Shellac records were simply too fragile to be posted ; so the special circumstances of war justified the first vinyl records .
5 For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version .
6 For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version .
7 For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version .
8 For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version .
9 For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version .
10 In 1987 Conservative ministers boasted of their success while still claiming that the conquest of inflation remained the first objective of policy .
11 In icy American logging camps it was common for the cook to detonate small amounts of dynamite to cook the first meal of the day , which brought a whole new meaning to bangers for breakfast .
12 The King James translation of the Book of Genesis renders the first line as In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth , confident that prior to God there was nothing , that Yahweh created the universe ex nihilo .
13 In the 1952 election campaign the Republicans promised to take a tough line with the Russians , and the appointment of John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State seemed the first step in fulfilling that pledge .
14 However , more recently , in Eurocopy plc v Teasdale , reported in the journal PLC in November 1991 , the Court of Appeal upheld a first instance decision , and dismissed an application to strike out a defence , that in connection with a sale and purchase agreement , the actual knowledge of the purchaser might still be a defence to a claim for breach of warranty notwithstanding a clause in the sale and purchase agreement which provided that no actual or constructive knowledge on the part of the purchaser would prejudice a claim .
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