Example sentences of "to the first [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps for a return to the first Great Awakening of the eighteenth century , when Jonathan Edwards thundered against the evils of the age . |
| 2 | A large number of firms the Joint Monitoring Unit visited last year are failing to meet one or more of its criteria for good audit procedures , according to the first annual review of audit regulation . |
| 3 | THE new government had to draft in a hasty replacement to lead its delegation to the first annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development following the election defeat of overseas development minister Lynda Chalker . |
| 4 | Mr Rawlins , 38 , has spent the past seven years working with the Lloyd 's insurance market and was once personal assistant to the first chief executive of that community , Ian Hay Davison . |
| 5 | Yet it is migration to and from rural areas that has been the main concern of rural geographers in the last century , and so attention is now turned to the first major theme of this chapter , rural population change . |
| 6 | These are linked to the first new component of the family , the OpenServer Directory Exchange Server , DXS , which provides a centralised repository of all user addresses on the network , and is responsible for propagating this information to the other electronic mail systems . |
| 7 | An idea of the complexity of this process can be gauged from the events which led to the first successful casting of iron cannon in Sussex , at Buxted in 1543 . |
| 8 | Luke telephoned her early to tell her , tersely , what time he would fetch her that night , and although she put a frigid resentment into her voice Maria did n't demur , since it was in their public , professional capacities that the radio station 's personnel had been issued with complimentary tickets to the first Taiwanese appearance of a fairly famous American singer . |
| 9 | Changes in intensity thus relate to the first spatial derivative of the refractive index . |
| 10 | Today it is reached by the main road , up the valley of the Petite Nive , through Arnéguy , which is the French frontier post , to the first Spanish village of Valcarlos and then Roncesvalles or , in its more familiar French form , Roncevaux . |
| 11 | Many had been awake all night , listening with increasing horror to the first confused reports of the massacre in Peking . |
| 12 | It was not the Jerusalem leaders who agreed to the first widespread dissemination of the Word . |
| 13 | Elected to the representative board ( 1879 ) which was to be responsible for the foundation of the British Dental Association , he was subsequently appointed to the first editorial committee of the Journal of the BDA , and was BDA president in 1884 . |
| 14 | It has reached that level in half a century , for 50 years ago today the experiment was begun which led to the first recorded observation of this polymer . |
| 15 | Elected in 1841 to the first legislative assembly of Upper and Lower Canada as an independent representing Huron , he served five years before resigning in 1846 to become superintendent of the Lachine canal and publish his Recollections of the American War , 1812–1814 . |