Example sentences of "[adv] first [noun] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So first crack of the whip went to Graham . |
| 2 | Michel and I were cousins , not first cousins of course — ’ |
| 3 | Intel Corp has put off first deliveries of the P5 microprocessor to the first quarter of next year from the fourth quarter this year , but says that the move has not affected progress on the follow-on P6 , which it had said would start sampling as soon as the fourth quarter of next year , suggesting it will come very hot on the heels of the P5 . |
| 4 | DEC AND THE MUSEE D'ORSAY IN PARIS SHOW OFF FIRST FRUITS OF THEIR COLLABORATION — BUT WHERE TO NOW ? |
| 5 | Command of the main army was entrusted for the moment to a veteran Huguenot general , Sir John [ later first Earl of ] Ligonier , aged 65 , who had also been called back from the Continent , though it was understood he would become subordinate to Cumberland as soon as the latter was ready to take over . |
| 6 | He was arrested in London in 1723 for seditious libel , and again in 1732 for attacks on Sir Robert Walpole ( later first Earl of Orford ) and George II in The Royal Oak Journal . |
| 7 | Her father was the kinsman , friend , and protégé of Thomas Wentworth ( later first Earl of Strafford , q.v. ) , and she spent her childhood as the pampered daughter of a prospering family : ‘ I enjoyed great easiness and comfort during my honoured father 's life , having the fortunate opportunity … of the best education that kingdom could afford . ’ |
| 8 | He got his sole opportunity in 1599 when he induced Sir Robert Cecil ( later first Earl of Salisbury , q.v. ) to approve a copper coinage scheme for Ireland which was put into operation in 1601 , though he was not able to secure a monopoly for its production . |
| 9 | He died 10 November 1347 , leaving only a daughter , Margaret , who married Ralph Stafford , later first Earl of Stafford [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | Lowther 's service under Savile probably explains why Sir Thomas Wentworth ( later first Earl of Strafford , q.v. ) removed him from the commission to compound with recusants in July 1630 . |
| 11 | In January 1660 he became a captain in the regiment ( formerly Fleetwood 's ) of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper ( later first Earl of Shaftesbury , q.v. ) , and the connection continued after the Restoration , when Lord Ashley ( as he had become ) was chancellor of the Exchequer , and Warcup , among other financial concessions , was a farmer of the excise in Wiltshire and Dorset . |
| 12 | In that same month Warcup had several meetings with the king and his ministers , Laurence Hyde , later first Earl of Rochester , and Sir Leoline Jenkins [ qq.v. ] ; and on 4 March the council ordered him £1,500 by privy seal , for his expenses . |
| 13 | Dering 's evident application , as well as a connection with Sir Heneage Finch ( later first Earl of Nottingham , q.v. ) , the newly appointed solicitor-general ( Dering had married his sister-in-law ) , marked him out for government office . |
| 14 | He also served with Blake and Edward Mountagu ( see Montagu , later first Earl of Sandwich , q.v. ) on the expedition to the south in 1656 . |
| 15 | Early in 1656 he was appointed rear-admiral of the fleet being sent against Spain under Generals Robert Blake [ q.v. ] and Edward Mountagu ( later first Earl of Sandwich , q.v. ) , and took part in the long blockade of Cadiz . |
| 16 | Eclipsed by more dynamic colleagues , such as Anthony Ashley Cooper ( first Baron Ashley and later first Earl of Shaftesbury ) , Sir Thomas Clifford ( later first Baron Clifford of Chudleigh ) , and Sir William Coventry [ qq.v . ] , |
| 17 | By 1859 she and Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( later first Earl of Lytton , q.v. ) were having a secret affair . |
| 18 | His name was on the list of H. H. Asquith ( later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith ) , had the prime minister been forced to create new Liberal peers in 1911 . |
| 19 | The evidence that Creevey was the natural son of Lord Molyneux , later first Earl of Sefton , is suggestive but not conclusive . |
| 20 | By Elizabethan standards Crosse was remarkably honest , reliable , and trustworthy ; qualities appreciated and much used by his superiors and by Sir Robert Cecil ( later first Earl of Salisbury , q.v . ) , |
| 21 | His eldest surviving daughter , Elizabeth , was married in May 1678 , complete with a portion of £10,000 , to Heneage Finch [ q.v. ] , who became solicitor-general 1679–86 , second son of Heneage Finch ( later first Earl of Nottingham , q.v. ) , the lord chancellor . |
| 22 | , William , Viscount Cranborne and second Earl of Salisbury ( 1591–1668 ) , parliamentarian , was born in Westminster 28 March 1591 , the only son of Sir Robert Cecil ( later first Earl of Salisbury , q.v. ) , and his wife Elizabeth , daughter of William Brooke , tenth Baron Cobham . |
| 23 | Before the end of Elizabeth 's reign he settled on the Sussex coast , at Offington in the parish of Broadwater , perhaps hoping to profit from his kinship with the local magnate , Thomas Sackville , later first Earl of Dorset [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | In 1957 he entered the cabinet of Harold Macmillan ( later first Earl of Stockton ) as minister of housing and local government . |
| 25 | In July 1616 , on the embassy of James , Lord Hay ( later first Earl of Carlisle , q.v. ) in marriage negotiations between Princess Christina and Prince Charles , he suffered a serious accidental fall which left him in France for some months after the embassy . |
| 26 | His busyness in seeking profitable office suggests little sympathy for the austere ideals of ‘ Thorough ’ : a privy councillor throughout the decade , he had no scruples in gathering a clutch of reversions for his young sons Thomas and Henry ( later first Earl of St Albans , q.v. ) , which inhibited the king 's freedom of appointment in legal , financial , and administrative offices . |
| 27 | On this occasion Herbert was quite keen to accept , but H. H. Asquith , later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith ( a close family friend ) , was not encouraging and Sir Edward Grey ( later Viscount Grey of Falloden , q.v. ) , the foreign secretary , was against any British involvement in the Balkan tangle . |
| 28 | As a result , in January 1619 , during one of the pro-Spanish phases of James I 's foreign policy , he was appointed lord president of the council in the north , replacing Edmund , third Baron Sheffield ( later first Earl of Mulgrave , q.v. ) , lately a persecutor of Catholics , probably at the prompting of the Spanish ambassador , Gondomar . |
| 29 | In this Sir Thomas Wentworth ( later first Earl of Strafford , q.v . ) , |
| 30 | Her dedicated persistence finally gave a delegation of East End working women the opportunity of themselves demanding the vote from the prime minister , H. H. Asquith ( later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith ) . |