Example sentences of "[conj] the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The Trieste crisis blew up with an intensity which at the time suggested that it might lead to the last battle of the Second World War or the first of the Third World War . " |
| 2 | And then we stayed a few days in London and we went to the Baths and we went to the zoo and we went to all the science , by either the old trams or the first of the buses that Cos they complete with tram-riding and that was rather exciting in London , seeing the all the top hats and people in coats , tails and things . |
| 3 | The thirtieth of September or the first of October ? ’ |
| 4 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 5 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 6 | A lot of erm group one plans are , there are about ten thousand plans that are showing an arrears status at the moment , and premium has been missed some time ago , it 's not a , not a current premium , which means on the fifteenth of June or the first of July we will automatically go in and pick up two premiums , we 'll t we 'll try and collect the arrears without having notified the client of it in any way at all . |
| 7 | It 'll be one of two days , it 'll be the fifteenth of June or the first of July . |
| 8 | But the news , later in the day , that the first of at least 10 chartered trains had at last crossed the border into Czechoslovakia revived the East Germans ' spirit of solidarity in the face of inconvenience and discomfort . |
| 9 | Sir David said the private sector would be invited to participate in the project , and that the first of two runways should be open in early 1997 . |
| 10 | In the following year the Poles of 300 and 301 Squadrons bombed Berlin , as did the Russians , but it was not until 1942 that the first of the four-engined ‘ heavies ’ made the long flight to this target . |
| 11 | But it later emerged that the first of three contaminated cargoes arrived on October 5 . |
| 12 | It is a measure of the variability of taste that the first of these now seems one of Leapor 's least interesting poems . |
| 13 | Most people would agree that the first of these could be dispensed with without much regret or difficulty , but the others do seem to call for some sort of ceremony . |
| 14 | The Saturday morning sport Outreach scheme was successful and Mrs. Wilson hoped that the first of the affordable homes would be completed by August . |
| 15 | Originally they were termed ‘ accessory foods factors ’ but is was then found that the first of these ‘ factors ’ belonged to a group of substances called amines . |
| 16 | Do n't forget , the paper prominently said , that the first of the two Celebration of Canadian Racing meetings would be held the evening with the regular post time of 7 p.m. , while the second meeting , including the running of the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes would be tomorrow afternoon , post time 1.30 . |
| 17 | It is said that the first of the Macchi flying-boats was developed from a captured example of the Lohner E type . |
| 18 | It was through the work of the library committees that the first of the project 's stated objectives was most clearly achieved , and we have seen how the proposal documents embodied clearly defined objectives which did relate the development of the library to the curriculum experience of the children . |
| 19 | It is nonetheless a matter of deep regret that the Board has had to depart from this project and that the first of these care centres on Whalsay , which would have been opened in November nineteen ninety one had the agreement been left unaltered , was still not open at the beginning of this month . |
| 20 | It is possible , of course , to imagine that the first of these sentences describes one event and the second describes another , quite unrelated , event ( so the person identified as ‘ a mother ’ may be picking up a chair in the course of cleaning a room ) . |
| 21 | It seems likely that the first of these surveys probed reasons for job loss more deeply than the latter , and that the second 's estimates are too low . |
| 22 | It was also clear that the first of a number of PostScript clones , the language definition has always been in the public domain , were beginning to come to the market . |
| 23 | Nesbitt and his two Italian companions had evidently been fortunate to get away from Bahdu ; it was here that the first of their servants was murdered ; two others were killed in the course of the journey . |
| 24 | On block 34/11 , over which 3D seismic has already been shot , the award specifies the drilling of several exploration wells and it is hoped that the first of these will be started in early 1994 . |
| 25 | We expect that the first of the new authorities will be in place by April 1994 . |
| 26 | I can confirm that 486 vehicles for new Networker trains are being manufactured at a total cost of £365 million and that the first of those trains will come into service on my hon. Friend 's line in May this year . |
| 27 | The hon. Member for Copeland ( Dr. Cunningham ) made a shaky start by saying that the first of those days , during the debate on the Gracious Speech , was before the Bill was published . |
| 28 | It is true that the first of the pair begins like the piece on p.88 , with a figured Trommelbass accompaniment , but this soon gives way to a rising broken triad in semiquaver triplets which dominates from then on . |
| 29 | It is suggested that the first of these reasons would no longer be valid if litigated again ( see Multiservice Bookbinding Ltd v Marden [ 1979 ] Ch 84 , where Browne-Wilkinson J upheld a mortgage under which the interest payments were linked to the value of the Swiss franc , cited with apparent approval by Lord Denning MR in Staffordshire Area Health Authority v South Staffordshire Waterworks Co [ 1978 ] 3 All ER 769 ) . |
| 30 | IT IS not irrational for a jury to decide that the first of two co-accused acted in concert with the second but that the second co-accused did not act in concert with the first , because the case against each accused must be considered separately and there may be evidence which is admissible against one but not the other . |