Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her story concerns the Princess Alicia , daughter of King Watkins the First , who is hard pressed to maintain his ever-growing family . |
| 2 | Roxburgh was a royal castle and its associated township , both quite large , situated within the narrow point of land where Teviot joined Tweed ; a strong position where King David the First , son of Malcolm Canmore and Saint Margaret , had established his headquarters on accession to the throne , and from which he had in effect ruled Scotland . |
| 3 | Philip the Bastard , half brother to Robert Faulconbridge , and son of King Richard the First , discovers himself in a position of authority when King John knights him and dubs him Sir Richard Plantagenet . |
| 4 | The state is nothing but a family and we 're related to his majesty Charles the First just as we are related to our dads as simple as that , you know , the private and the public are identical political relationships are fundamentally family relationships . |
| 5 | They were formed over fifty centuries ago by the Phoenix King Caledor the first at the start of the schism between the High Elves and the Dark Elves . |
| 6 | Di was putting on a brave face today amidst speculation that their marriage is undergoing a serious rift is threatening to eclipse their visit to South Korea the first by members of the Royal Family . |
| 7 | And subsequent tradition , a posteriori , will proclaim Simon Peter the first Bishop of Rome and the founder of the papacy . |
| 8 | You asked for it , so here she s HM QUEEN DIANA THE FIRST |
| 9 | but you 're on about something else , you said the first thing I 'd do , that 's got nothing to do with Harold Wilson the first thing I if I were in power |
| 10 | The ‘ baby-boomers ’ , generally liberal in social matters but not particularly engaged in Democratic politics , saw in Mr Clinton the first president who had shared their experiences . |
| 11 | Having received that payment , the plaintiff handed over to Samuel Revill the first note and endorsed on the second — the note for £110.13s.4d. — ‘ received on account of Samuel Revill £47.1s.4d. ; this sum , with the amount of the first note , make £100 . ’ |
| 12 | In the history of the settlement of the United States the first white settlers in north America arrived in Virginia in 1607 , and by 1685 there was a serious increase in flooding caused by forest clearance . |
| 13 | In Britain came the Ferranti Mark I and the Leo computer , in the United States the first Univac machine was produced . |
| 14 | In the United States the first ‘ engineers ’ or drivers and their firemen performed other tasks , such as selling tickets and moving baggage and freight . |
| 15 | The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals ( CVCP ) has made two attempts to define the purpose of the Ph D. The first , in 1975 , said that the Ph D is a ‘ training for independent scholars and research workers at the highest level . ’ |
| 16 | T. D. The first time I saw a football was when a caseball hit a horse in the face , and the horse reared up . |
| 17 | 30% of Bulgaria 's electricity is currently nuclear generated and at Belene on the River Danube the first of four 1000 MW PWRs is expected to begin electricity generation in the 1990s . |
| 18 | And the National Rivers Authority has pledged to introduce 200,000 salmon a year for the next four years into the cleaned-up River Tees the first time the fish have been in the river in any numbers in the last 30 years . |
| 19 | August : South African President de Klerk the first South African head of state to visit the island , signed an agreement to expand economic relations . |
| 20 | Ireland will go to New Zealand with Derek McAleese the first choice and Peter Russell the back-up . |
| 21 | Queen Elizabeth the First watched that play — on Twelfth Night , the 6th of January , 1601 . |
| 22 | It commemorates a visit to Oxford by Queen Elizabeth the first and is another focal point in the garden . |
| 23 | Surely that 's the , that is the house where Queen Elizabeth the first spent all her girl hood . |
| 24 | Oxford 's Lord Mayor , Queenie Warley will travel through time to meet Queen Elizabeth the First accompanied by the dancers and musicians . |
| 25 | Forty-eight hours after the Novell-buys-Unix announcement , Microsoft was out telling folks like The Wall Street Journal that it would sell more than a million copies of Windows NT the first year after it comes out . |
| 26 | Behind Lord John the first beam of sunlight struck like a golden lance across the world 's rim . |
| 27 | King Charles the first praised it 's beauty . |
| 28 | In 1589 he married the widow Elizabeth Crane , in whose house at East Molesey the first tracts were printed and who was heavily fined in Star Chamber for her involvement . |
| 29 | When Sarah got back to the attic bedroom in Newcastle Place the first thing she did was open the window , letting in damp , wintry air . |
| 30 | It 's Thursday November the first , nineteen ninety . |