Example sentences of "[verb] the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , by Christmas 1988 , after three months solid debate , it had still not completed the first of the five subject areas laid down by Energy Secretary Cecil Parkinson at the start . |
| 2 | As a leading suffragette , she endured the first of two spells in Holloway gaol in 1907 . |
| 3 | The town was laid out in a military camp plan with a wide , straight road crossing the city centre from one side of the town to the other and similar roads intersecting the first at right angles . |
| 4 | Local types were beginning to be noticed , and in 1709 the English parliament passed the first of a series of Enclosure Acts which , indirectly , would lead to breed development by curtailing the traditional practice of communal grazing and random mating . |
| 5 | After a few minutes they passed the first of the estate workers ' cottages , two storey , stone-built , and around three hundred years old . |
| 6 | Note that in the above discussion we have carefully distinguished the first from the second operand . |
| 7 | Taylor , from Birkenhead , Merseyside , struck one prison officer , taking his keys , and within minutes the rioters had erected the first of a labyrinth of barricades and begun systematically destroying the chapel . |
| 8 | And then , he made the first of his mistakes . |
| 9 | Lenihan , 32 , who made the first of his 52 international appearances against Australia in 1981 , missed all of last season 's Five Nations programme after an operation to repair damage to his neck . |
| 10 | Lenihan , 32 , who made the first of his 52 international appearances against Australia in 1981 , missed all of last season 's Five Nations programme after undergoing an operation to repair damage to his neck . |
| 11 | Altogether they were to spend 15 months in the English capital and late in April they made the first of three visits ( the others were in May and October ) to the court of King George III and Queen Charlotte . |
| 12 | It must have been towards the end of 1920 that Lord Darlington made the first of a number of trips to Berlin himself , and I can remember the profound effect it had on him . |
| 13 | In 1986 , Sir Ranulph made the first of his four attempts with Dr Michael Stroud to reach the North Pole unsupported . |
| 14 | In the early 1890s , in loyal imitation of the Queen , Gladstone made the first of a number of visits . |
| 15 | Kohl , for instance , made the first of six planned visits on Feb. 20 to address a rally of the Alliance for Germany [ see below ] attended by 100,000 in Erfurt . |
| 16 | Pérez escaped from his residence just before it was surrounded , and went to a private television station from which he made the first of four broadcasts to the nation repudiating the coup . |
| 17 | Mark the length of the second piece using the first as your guide . |
| 18 | Er to answer the first answer the first of your two questions , erm , the greenbelt as defined in the greenbelt local plan is hard up , in many respects , against the edge of the built up area , excluding allocated sites , allocations above that within the Southern Ryedale area would in fact require redrawing green in a green belt boundaries . |
| 19 | There was , of course , no such safety problem , as the safety inspector subsequently confirmed , and the steward was given the first of the warning notes , as planned . |
| 20 | given the first in this . |
| 21 | She inserted the first in the machine and pressed the button . |
| 22 | It is believed Stars & Stripes will sport the first of North Sails ' revolutionary seamless sails , made in a 3-D mould , before the end of this round . |
| 23 | Boro fans seem to sense as much , with only 12,000 on hand to see the first of their team 's four games in eight days on Monday . |
| 24 | Benjamin had just lived long enough to see the first of his children married : Ella Frances May Titford 's wedding had taken place on 26 August 1905 , in that very church in which her father was to collapse eight days later . |
| 25 | EQUITY & LAW , The Netherlands ' 60ft yacht skippered by Dirk Nauta , yesterday became the first of the smaller boats and 15th so far to finish the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race to Punta del Este in Uruguay . |
| 26 | When that happened , however , there would at least be the compensation that she became the first of them to have her power formally acknowledged with the title of regent . |
| 27 | Nine months later , Francis ' team dominated Canadian sprinting , and the following year Angella Taylor became the first of the group to reach world class . |
| 28 | Lord Winterstoke became the first of five Pro-Chancellors who have been elected from Wills families . |
| 29 | 26th minute : Steve Bould became the first of five bookings for his second tackle from behind on Teddy Sheringham . |
| 30 | National Semiconductor became the first of a stream of US and later Japanese electronics investors to take the bait . |