Example sentences of "and the [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 Such themes include expectations of life , employment and the problems of the first job , first love , relations with parents , divorced parents , step-parents , feelings of inadequacy , school and relationships with peers and teachers , and illness and grief .
2 Shannon , with their vaunted pack , were the favourites and the leaders in the first division of the All Ireland League .
3 No transfers fell under the defective provisions , and the amendments in the first of the 1993 Finance Bills will be effective from 17 July 1992 .
4 Less than half these Vs have had repeats , and the names of the first ascensionists are often a better guide to a route 's difficulty than its published grade .
5 It was clearly there by the eleventh century , and stands aligned on the stream and road and the alignments of the first unit .
6 The founder and leader of the BUF , Sir Oswald Mosley , was a self-conscious political spokesman for the ‘ lost generation ’ and the survivors of the first World War .
7 As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first .
8 They had been underestimated , as the first Test proved , but the damage had been done and the attendances for the first two Tests were depressing .
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