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

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1 Now the First Law of Thermodynamics states that the increase in internal energy of a body is equal to the work done by the external forces plus the heat given to the body .
2 And at any moment now the first members of staff would be arriving .
3 It was Addison , formerly President of the Local Government Board , but with its demise now the first Minister of Health , who introduced the programme which articulated Lloyd George 's election promise to the voters of Wolverhampton in November 1918 that returning soldiers should have ‘ homes fit for heroes ’ .
4 Now the first phase of recovery — strapping the lowest loggia with five steel bands between four and 16 inches thick — could be completed by Easter .
5 Aries is always classed as the first constellation of the Zodiac , though by now the First Point of Aries ( the position where the ecliptic cuts the equator ) has shifted into the adjacent constellation of Pisces .
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