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

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1 Leaving Mongolia aside , the leaders of each country are the linear descendants of ‘ Muscovite ’ Communists , sheltered in the USSR during the Second World War and brought to power in the van of the Red Army : in times of friction , it takes little to remind Eastern Europe 's leaders not only how their bread is buttered , but how they got into the larder in the first place .
2 Later to be run on the death of his father by Ted Parris , who still lives in the same road , taking over at the age of 15 until called into the services during the first war .
3 Cardiff led the way into the corridor on the first floor .
4 Wife Nicky and the newly-elected Tory MP for Falmouth proudly propelled their first baby , five-week-old Madelaine , into the limelight for the first time .
5 But as the runners made round the left-hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard .
6 This reticence extended even to the making of protests which was why , despite his feeble objections — he had been under no compulsion to go — he had been dragooned into the Navy in the first place .
7 Of course , eating into the deficit from the first 6 games with another away win would be ok .
8 There can be the desperate feeling that life has passed them by , and they stand on a precipice , wondering whether to jump into the arms of the first person who offers , or risk endless loneliness. ,
9 Throw yourself into the arms of the first lad who looks at you . ’
10 BUILDING giant Wimpey crashed more than £7 million into the red in the first six months of this year — despite earning £730 million .
11 The company dropped the bombshell as it plunged £711million into the red in the first half of the year .
12 In the interests of maintaining " fair competition " between public and private providers and the efficient use of capital , a system of capital charges was introduced into the NHS for the first time , and all hospitals were made responsible for meeting the interest and depreciation costs of their existing assets and new investment .
13 Unikix , the 18-month-old CICS-for-Unix product pioneered by Unicorn Systems Inc and now owned by Groupe Bull SA , is now being launched into the UK for the first time by Brentford , Middlesex-based Bull Information Systems Ltd .
14 The basic principle of law is that assignment of a contract is not possible where the identity of the assignor is an important factor for the other party to the contract either as a reason for his entering into the contract in the first place , or because it is for some reason significant for the proper discharge of the contract .
15 Bell 's chief test pilot , Bob Stanley , took the first prototype XP-63 Kingcobra , 41–19511 , into the air for the first time on December 7 , 1942 , from Buffalo , New York .
16 Both were essentially seminaries — a majority of undergraduates went into the church in the first half of the century- and finishing schools , where teaching rather than research was the norm .
17 On the following flights you position the final turn and approach relative to where you made the last one , i.e. if you kept too close and landed rather far into the field on the first landing , you will move back more on the next , remembering the positioning of the previous flight .
18 On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun :
19 He was pretty confident about his ability to get into the rooms in the first place , Loretta noted .
20 On the replay , Ely scored a two to go into the lead for the first time .
21 By the following year that innocence of 1969 had turned into the appearance of the first page three girls in the freshly Murdoch-bought Sun .
22 And we trudge through the winter and into the spring of the first bombing year .
23 Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before .
24 Signac , who continued his activity as a print-maker into the period after the First World War , uses the graphic medium superbly .
25 Yesterday he went into the office for the first time .
26 It was their own form-master Sam Sylvester who got them into the trouble in the first place .
27 ‘ But then he got her into the trouble in the first place .
28 Use these only as a last resort , since it is better to stop moisture getting into the walls in the first place .
29 Not suprisingly , it was a nerve-racking finale but eventually the more experienced Australians triumphed 5-7 , 6-4 , 6-0 , to carry their country into the semi-finals for the first time in four years .
30 Extrinsic rewards Those tangible rewards that probably attract most of us into the workforce in the first place .
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