Example sentences of "[art] first [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wedding , inside the top security Maghaberry Prison in Co Antrim , is understood to be the first between loyalist and nationalist inmates . |
| 2 | Consider two similarities , the first between two post-structuralists whose work is in most other respects incompatible , the second between post-structuralism and the post/modern . |
| 3 | For this , five years of full-time study are complemented by two years of practical training in architects ' offices — the first between third and fourth years , and the second after completing the Diploma in Architecture . |
| 4 | Good so if we cut the first into twelfth what how many pieces would they get out of that 's be twelve pieces altogether okay . |
| 5 | The agreement was accompanied by a $42.3million payment to the Fund by the Peruvians — the first since 1986 — to cover repayments due between September and December , according to an announcement in Washington on Monday . |
| 6 | The Kyodo news agency reported on Feb. 20 that the Japanese government was planning to extend a US$500,000,000 loan package to Syria , the first since 1986 . |
| 7 | Gwen Davies ( Mrs Koblenz ) sent an account of a reunion in the United States of herself and her sisters Mair Burman and Ellen Williams , the first since 1943 . |
| 8 | He is only the fourth Irishman to win the award since it was introduced in 1951 , and the first since former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan ten years ago . |
| 9 | MCI Communications Corp , Washington says that it intends to split its shares — now standing at $52.50 — two-for-one , the first since 1983 , the third in its 25-year history . |
| 10 | The two main unions , the General Union of Moroccan Workers ( UGTM ) and the Democratic Confederation of Labour ( CDT ) , had called the strike , the first since 1981 , to promote demands for a doubling of the legal minimum wage to 2,000 dirhams ( about US$245 ) per month to compensate for rising food prices . |
| 11 | THE general election in Spain on June 6th will be the first since 1979 in which the winner has not been known in advance . |
| 12 | It will also be the first since 1979 in which none of the parties is expected to gain an outright majority . |
| 13 | The Senate 's decision meant that Durenberger became only the ninth member to be so censured , and the first since 1979 . |
| 14 | The transfer , which took place at Panmunjom peace village on the border between North and South Korea , was the first since 1954 and coincided with Memorial Day , the US national holiday to honour its war dead . |
| 15 | A fourth term , the first since 1826 . |
| 16 | In simultaneous elections in Berlin on Dec. 2 — the first since 1946 for a unified administration in the city — the CDU led by Eberhard Diepgen won a landslide victory against the SPD-Alternative List ( AL ) coalition led by Walter Momper , which had ruled in West Berlin since the last election in January 1989 [ see pp. 36403 ; 36530 ] . |
| 17 | One final conundrum concerns why the El Nino chose this winter to make its return — the first since 1972 . |
| 18 | Speculation on whether the historic meeting would actually go ahead , however , was intensified when , on the same day , a planned visit to the South by a North Korean delegation — the first since 1985 — was cancelled because of a failure to agree upon minor procedural details . |
| 19 | Overall the budget showed a financial surplus — the first since 1978 — of NZ$89 million . |
| 20 | The fall in profitability in 1991 was the first since 1982 , and this trend is clearly set to continue . |
| 21 | So I 'll blur over the consequences for Ulster and hurry on to my next point — the re-establishment of an Irish House of Lords , the first since 1801 . |
| 22 | The strong showing by Perot meant that , despite his clear victory , Clinton became the 14th President to be elected with less than 50 per cent of the popular vote , and the first since 1968 . |
| 23 | In Denmark the normal pattern of Social Democratic government was disturbed by the emergence in 1982 of a four-party centre-right coalition , headed by a Conservative Prime Minister — the first since 1905 . |
| 24 | However , it is very likely that articulating a second language interferes with the processing of the first during simultaneous interpreting . |
| 25 | The first of 13 dormant trade/transit points along the Indo-Nepali border was ceremonially reopened by Bhattarai on June 18 . |
| 26 | Oracle also plans to introduce a project management toolset for CDE in the first of 1994 . |
| 27 | Chairman it 's er an excellent question an an and I , I , I 'm hesitating in giving er an an off the cuff answer , but the first of all we were n't actually asked to issue a statement of conformity at this stage |
| 28 | Antigone may be the first of all political plays and is surely the greatest . |
| 29 | Mind you , erm , I have n't been conscious about him at all , even when he was on the first of all . |
| 30 | Smoking the first of five cigarettes from his case which had been undamaged in his rear pocket ( matches from escape kit ) Harry made up his mind to head for a port , walking north-westerly to avoid Potsdam . |