Example sentences of "in the [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exceptions were in four main areas : in the west during the first onslaughts when the khanate of Kuchum was being eliminated ; in the far north-east against the Chukchis and Karnchatkan Itelmens ( here Russian losses may not have been very severe , but the effects on the aboriginal population were catastrophic ) ; in the south-east in the struggle with the Manchus for domination of the Amur , where the Russians were beaten ; and finally in the south-west against the nomadic horsemen of the steppes who were a thorn in the Russians ' flesh for over a century . |
| 2 | An extra-full crew of Swallows — Bridget is old enough to join in the adventures for the first time — and the two visiting Amazons turn surveyors , until they encounter those muddy indigenous savages , the Eels and the Mastodon , and the hostilities replace exploration . |
| 3 | Someone called Prue , who until today had remained hidden in the wardrobe-room on the first floor pedalling her sewing machine , had a chair allocated for her use in the prompt corner and a space reserved for cotton reels and safety pins on the props table in the wings . |
| 4 | One of the possible explanations for the differences could be that a small subclone was not present initially in the sample of the first tumour and eventually grew up to form the recurrence , but as there were so many genetic changes present in the recurrence which were not initially there and the Lambda MS8 did not show allele loss , a balance of probabilities seemed that the latter tumour was not a progression from the first . |
| 5 | Few literary sources are more revealing of aristocratic culture than the Gesta Consulum Andegavorum and its off shoot the Gesta Ambaziensium Dominorum , produced in the Touraine in the first six decades of the twelfth century , for the pleasure and edification of the counts of Anjou and their castellans , the lords of Amboise . |
| 6 | And this year , with me being in the Company for the first time , I really must go . ’ |
| 7 | Because of the exhaustion of the low-cost reserves , uranium prices seem bound to rise in the course of the first half of the next century ( assuming the uranium mining industry is to remain in business ) , but by how much is anyone 's guess . |
| 8 | The Social Work ( Scotland ) Act 1968 says that where a child has been detained in a place of safety , and the Reporter considers that the child may be in need of compulsory measures of care , he shall , wherever practicable , arrange a children 's hearing to sit not later than in the course of the first lawful day after the commencement of the child 's detention to consider the case . |
| 9 | Fitzpatrick , an All Black hooker of Irish stock , has a small problem with a few misshapen teeth which had inadvertently got enwrapped around an Irishman 's knuckles in the course of the first encounter . |
| 10 | The said transactions and each of them were so entered into : – ( i ) in the course of the first defendant 's contravention of section 3 of the Act for the period ( July 1988 to March 1989 ) when the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned therein and/or ( ii ) as a result of contraventions of sections 47 and 57 in which the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned . |
| 11 | Matters are quite different in the case of the first wording ‘ I ask that you be content with that thing ’ . |
| 12 | In the case of the first one to be founded after 1850 — Dundee in 1853 — a deaf person , Alexander Drysdale who was then headmaster of the Dundee School for the Deaf took the lead to establish an adult mission . |
| 13 | In the case of the first participant , Pegasus , this bundle will comprise Pegasus Unifacts , Word Perfect and Lotus 1-2-3 . |
| 14 | In other times she would have been obsessively at her pen or her typewriter ; as it was , she harassed her scribes and possible scribes continually — to death , it would appear in the case of the first one . |
| 15 | Certainly in the case of the first of those conditions the present appellants would find themselves in considerable difficulty . |
| 16 | In the case of the first question the response is ‘ a new book ’ . |
| 17 | In the case of the first question the verb is thematicized ; in the second it is rhematic and is substituted for by a categorical verb , i.e. to do . |
| 18 | In the case of the first two of the above punishment strategies , Nash reversion and minimax , the acceptance of punishment by the deviant is not an issue . |
| 19 | I can not give a reliable date as to when the Metropolitan police report in the case of the first matters will be available , but I have no reason to suppose that it is not being prosecuted with all celerity by the dedicated team that the Commissioner has made available . |
| 20 | So far , I have discussed the hunting economy purely as an immediate-return one , and such indeed it is in central Australia and must have been in the case of the first hunters . |
| 21 | Lord Hope said in the case of the first witness that his additional evidence would not have led the jury to reject the evidence of Thomas Leighton , who had corroborated the boy 's account of the attack . |
| 22 | Later , when dealing with the case against the appellant Low , and having told the jury that they could not consider as evidence against him any statements made by the second appellant , he added : ‘ Now in deciding what it was that the first accused is proved to have done , you must consider all the evidence available in the case against the first accused in coming to this decision , but only that evidence . ’ |
| 23 | On the other hand , in the middle of the first millennium AD , radiocarbon produces ‘ ages ’ that are too old by a century or so ( fig. 7.4 ) . |
| 24 | In the middle of the first week of Matilda 's first term , Miss Honey said to the class , ‘ I have some important news for you , so listen carefully . |
| 25 | The Dorset industry must have continued from its Pre-conquest days up to the moment of expansion ; its potters had been supplying the army in the middle of the first century , as is evident from Waddon Hill ( Webster , 1960 , 93 , 95 ; 1965 , 142 ) . |
| 26 | The very opening is a little more subdued , effectively so , there are minor readjustments of pace in the middle of the first movement , and the second movement is now even more careering than before at 3′59″ , but the woodwind are noticeably more sophisticated . |
| 27 | The lands which the South Slav tribes first entered , in the middle of the first millennium AD , were geographically very different from their earlier homelands north of the Carpathians , in the Vistula basin and the Ukraine . |
| 28 | Yes , my schooling I went to the School in nineteen seventeen in the middle of the First World War . |
| 29 | They did not have to face protests and reforms in the middle of the first millennium B.C. In Egypt a morality of silence prevailed , and Mesopotamia — whether Assyria or Chaldaea — seems to have been bent on conquering the others rather than on criticizing herself . |
| 30 | The musical opens with her trial ; in the theatre on the first night , she was in tears . |